tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-48821656655723251552024-03-07T20:04:10.690+11:00On Publication DesignI began the blog in 2006 to document my doctoral research process. Since then, it has evolved into an ongoing conversation about the evolution of books in a digital age.Zoë Sadokierskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06249152683453963642noreply@blogger.comBlogger73125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4882165665572325155.post-65292595670211454342013-10-02T12:53:00.000+10:002013-10-03T13:14:32.412+10:00Memory Palace, V&AMemory Palace is a curatorial experiment by Laurie Britton Newell and Ligaya Salazar. They commissioned London author Hari Hunzru to write an original short story that would be interpreted by 20 illustrators and designers, and presented as an ‘immersive narrative experience situated in a gallery in the Victoria and Albert Museum ... a walk-in book.’ The idea of an ‘immersive’ narrative that Zoë Sadokierskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06249152683453963642noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4882165665572325155.post-86841756810249785402013-09-06T10:08:00.000+10:002013-10-02T12:02:39.188+10:00Praxis and Poetics – Day 1
The Praxis and Poetics: Research Through Design conference held in
Newcastle upon Tyne and Gateshead, UK, September 3-5 2013. The
conference format was unconventional it placed emphasis on practitioner research, by inviting participants to submit a
short paper (4 pages) accompanied by a design object that forms part of their
research practice. The inclusion of the design Zoë Sadokierskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06249152683453963642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4882165665572325155.post-3283621959435066792013-09-02T22:22:00.000+10:002013-10-02T10:05:03.044+10:00The Literary Platform: working with books and technologySophie Rochester founded online magazine The Literary Platform in 2009, to report on ‘current thinking about books and technology and innovative projects that blend the two.’ The site is a treasure trove of projects – apps, digital publications, games and websites with a literary slant.
Alongside the magazine, Sophie formed a consultancy business, attracting a collection of like-minded Zoë Sadokierskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06249152683453963642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4882165665572325155.post-35264659873556416152013-09-02T11:45:00.000+10:002013-09-27T17:54:56.699+10:00Street Museum and Soho StoriesWhile in London, I tested a couple of locative apps to get my head around ways archival material from the State Library could be published/made available off site – beyond the physical library and the online catalogue. There are too many locative apps to bother mentioning, I chose Streetmuseum and Soho Stories because these two treat archival material in a manner that seems relevant to the Zoë Sadokierskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06249152683453963642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4882165665572325155.post-83301192868569341482013-08-22T21:01:00.000+10:002013-09-27T17:50:27.119+10:00Uncanny objects in Tasmania Before heading home, I stop by the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery. Newly renovated and reopened mid-March 2013, it's designed to embrace the tension between 'old and new', extending MONA's mission onto the mainland. I anticipate a brief meander, but find myself transfixed for three hours, leaving to avoid missing my flight.
I am first struck by the lightness of the unavoidable stuffed animalZoë Sadokierskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06249152683453963642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4882165665572325155.post-52212857566196957652013-08-21T17:57:00.001+10:002013-09-27T17:50:59.233+10:00On Loving and Hating at MONAAs part of my current research collaboration with SLNSW, I visited the Museum of Old and New Art (MONA) in Tasmania last weekend, to see The Red Queen exhibition and test the much-hyped 'O' app. Instead of wall labels, MONA has 'The O' – a smart device (iPod) with an inbuilt app that provides text, photographs, audio and video material related to each work. The O uses locative/positioning Zoë Sadokierskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06249152683453963642noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4882165665572325155.post-83745294854884282012013-07-03T09:21:00.002+10:002013-09-27T17:51:54.620+10:00Hybrid exegesis / Avian Titled Literature
THE BOOK SPOTTER'S GUIDE TO AVIAN TITLED LITERATURE. A HYBRID EXEGESIS.
Last year, Kate Sweetapple and I created an installation for the UTS Library. We suspended 30 altered books in a 'flock' down the Library's central stairwell. Each book represents a novels with a bird in its title – One Flew Over a Cuckoo's Nest, To Kill a Mocking Bird, Flaubert's Parrot, Love Amongst the Chickens, The Zoë Sadokierskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06249152683453963642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4882165665572325155.post-45098510474887370182013-03-08T13:21:00.000+11:002013-09-27T17:52:13.497+10:00Books Still? Week 2
A cut-up I started in 2011 and have not yet finished.
Three workshop exercises to get us thinking about reading, and designing for readers:
1. Dictionary page cut-up:
Take the two dictionary entries provided, cut all the words out and rearrange
them to create a new entry. Use all of the words and punctuation marks. Layout and paste down
the new entry onto an A5 page, considering the page Zoë Sadokierskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06249152683453963642noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4882165665572325155.post-14669450032154416702013-03-08T10:41:00.002+11:002013-09-27T17:52:35.320+10:00Books Still? Week 1: brief and tap-essaysSince 1975, the International Society of Typographic Designers has run an annual Student Assessment competition, with a series of set briefs. This year, I'm teaching a 3rd year Visual Communication project based
on the 2013 'Books Still?' brief, which proposes:
Working with content that you have selected you are asked to develop an editorial design project that considers how we read in the 21stZoë Sadokierskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06249152683453963642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4882165665572325155.post-80225079529356269842013-02-23T14:03:00.001+11:002013-02-23T14:13:05.802+11:00Interactive book coversIn November last year I posted about the possibility of designing digital book covers using animated gifs, as a way to address issues associated with thumbnail-size covers on Amazon and other online book sellers, where consumers increasingly browse books. This morning, a post on Design Week describes an 'interactive book cover' for A Tale For the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki. Published by Canongate, Zoë Sadokierskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06249152683453963642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4882165665572325155.post-16882482837081020362013-01-23T10:59:00.005+11:002013-03-08T11:23:27.854+11:00Faraway CutoutsInspired by Sandra Kaji-O'Grady's 2007 exhibition 'Cuts and Scores' in the DABLAB Gallery at UTS, I ordered a few pianola rolls from eBay. Sandra's exhibition blurb describes her work as: "new compositions that explore the relationships between musical systems,
spatial order and chromatics through strips of colour meticulously
interwoven with old pianola rolls." My interest was less in musical Zoë Sadokierskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06249152683453963642noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4882165665572325155.post-43200373730183770542013-01-03T14:00:00.000+11:002013-01-04T16:56:53.386+11:00On Reading
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I took some time off in early December for an unplugged week in Fiji (no phone, no internet). With little else to do but wander on the beach, I accidentally found an alphabet of coral pieces. Except a Z.
Zoë Sadokierskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06249152683453963642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4882165665572325155.post-14901069956555292832012-11-22T14:11:00.001+11:002012-11-22T14:15:59.872+11:00Digital Serials – a new space for illustration?Amazon Publishing has introduced Kindle Serials, a format for publishing original content (previously unpublished work) in episodes. From the site:
"Kindle Serials are stories published in episodes. When you buy a Kindle Serial, you will receive all existing episodes on your Kindle immediately, followed by future episodes as they are published at no additional cost. Enjoy reading as the author Zoë Sadokierskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06249152683453963642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4882165665572325155.post-66431864678151825042012-11-16T12:46:00.002+11:002013-09-27T17:53:12.095+10:00Animated gifs for digital book covers
I chaired a Sydney Writers’ Festival panel this year on book cover design.
Stephen Banham (founder of Melbourne design studio Letterbox) described designing the cover for his latest book Characters
so it was graphically bold, and easily recognisable where most people will buy
it – online. Below is a screenshot of the book at icon size from Banham's site, and a larger image taken from imprint Zoë Sadokierskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06249152683453963642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4882165665572325155.post-85429362401050856542012-11-16T12:15:00.000+11:002012-11-22T11:06:33.896+11:00The Waste Land for iPad
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In October, all full time staff in the Faculty of Design and Architecture presented current research projects in a one day symposium. My presentation was titled 'Elaborate Books: alternate approaches to disseminating design research', the abstract follows:
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The site was set up to relaunch Isobelle Carmody’s popular but out of print novel Greylands
as an eBook. The site hosts events and a wealth of content, but is only
live for a month. One section is ‘The Great eBook Debate’, where each
day in the month a guest librarian, writer or scholar is invited to post
about an issue or topic related to ebooks and Zoë Sadokierskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06249152683453963642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4882165665572325155.post-68714870814774277552010-04-26T09:36:00.002+10:002012-11-16T13:34:14.388+11:00Thesis available to downloadMy thesis is now available to download as a (rather large) PDF here.
Feedback would be great, but no grammar or spelling mistakes please (unless you're prepared to publish the thing). Best of luck to those still in the process – life is unimaginably better on the other side.Zoë Sadokierskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06249152683453963642noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4882165665572325155.post-49473546639937995172009-09-18T16:32:00.002+10:002012-11-16T13:33:12.224+11:00What does a design thesis look like?A few people have asked me whether my thesis has 'pictures' in it. Above are two double page spreads to show how I've used images. The top spread shows how they are used as 'quotations' – these are scanned in pages from Jonathan Safran Foer's Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. Other images are from my process work – this bottom spread is from the appendix in which I describe the 'Sundays' Zoë Sadokierskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06249152683453963642noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4882165665572325155.post-2195933699857642012009-09-01T10:46:00.002+10:002012-11-16T13:34:49.330+11:00The end is hereI have three copies of the final thesis sitting next to me, and am just waiting for the person whose desk I have to drop them on to arrive. Thank you to all who gave me feedback and encouragement through this blog – it has been an invaluable tool for my research, and I can't recommend using a blog in this way highly enough.
As sanity slowly seeps back in and I realise what I have just Zoë Sadokierskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06249152683453963642noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4882165665572325155.post-14668932045451379582009-08-12T15:37:00.006+10:002012-11-16T13:35:04.026+11:00Thesis brainI bumped into my friend Tobias who described feeling, in the final stage of his thesis last year, like one part of his brain got bigger to finish the thing, and so the other part had to get smaller. Yes. What he said.Zoë Sadokierskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06249152683453963642noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4882165665572325155.post-51594059252435219002009-08-03T16:23:00.002+10:002012-11-16T13:36:18.833+11:00analysis – critiqueIt's been two months since my last post, in which time I've been working like a dog to get the thesis finished. I'm aiming to submit on the 31st of August, and using the logic a friend once used to travel to India – if I tell everyone I'm doing it, I'll have to follow through because repeatedly explaining why I'm not there is more hassle than just doing it (thanks, Drew).
One fairly major Zoë Sadokierskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06249152683453963642noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4882165665572325155.post-75379536803125404452009-06-02T11:33:00.002+10:002012-11-16T13:35:53.081+11:00On Reading Graphic Novels (differently)I stumbled across this blog post by Rick Kleffel this morning, I don't have time to comment on it properly, but it's a great essay on the differences between reading conventional and graphic novels, and the author's hesitation to move from the familiarity of text boxes to the relative chaos of comic format:
But damn it, it's the words and pictures that threw me at first, even when IZoë Sadokierskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06249152683453963642noreply@blogger.com1