Journal

Creating Issue Ten

By Ligature Journal
December 17, 2021

The cover was printed over four consecutive weeks, with a full day of printing per colour, per side and a week in between for drying. Coming back each week for the next round of printing was increasingly exciting as the process headed towards completion.

How to calculate your Freelance Charge Rate

By Felix Oppen
July 04, 2021

Photo by Christin Hume on Unsplash As a design teacher and mentor a question I have often been asked is,...

Fabricating objects in a changed world with Domus Vim

By Ligature Journal
June 22, 2021

Object maker and architect Ian Tran bedazzled us with his iridescent lamps and melting mirrors. Ian found his path to architecture at a young age and quickly fell into the industry after interning at Domus Vim, a laser cutting and architectural model making studio.

Meet the team of Issue Ten!

By Ligature Journal
June 09, 2021

As you might have guessed from our Instagram posts our new team has been chipping away at issue 10 for a while now. We are 5-6 weeks into the production of the next issue and with it comes the same challenges each team has faced so far...but with the additional twists and turns. No spoilers will be given away just yet! Let's just say that we are once again challenging the notion of what IS a magazine!

Chatting with 2021’s ABDA Awards Shortlister, Daphne Kok

By Ligature Journal
June 04, 2021

Daphne is a designer from Singapore, having first encountered design at a young age by choosing fonts for WordArt to becoming a fully-fledged creative, Daphne is now sinking her teeth into book design.⁠
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Using the story and writing of 'The Tattooist of Auschwitz' and 'The Underground Railroad', Daphne chose to manipulate type to represent the stripped away voices of the protagonists and selected a colour palette that draws from the characters of the books.⁠

Chatting with 2021’s ABDA Awards Shortlister, Angela Huang

By Ligature Journal
May 28, 2021

We have once again put our support behind the Australian Book Design Awards this year sponsoring the Best Student Design Awards—Series. With the finalists to be announced in late June we wanted to have a chat with each of the talented designer’s that were chosen as finalists in this category including Frances Peck, Kespa Katsuk, Celia Mance, Angela Huang and Daphne Kok.