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. Let’s chat with Angela Huang! Tell us a little bit about who you are Hello! My name is Angela, and I’m a Chinese-Australian graphic designer based in Melbourne. I’m also a lover of movies, poetry, and the art of horror. How did ..read more

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. Next we have Celia Mance! Tell us a little bit about who you are My name is Celia Mance, I am 20 years old and I’m a third year Communication Design student at RMIT University. Outside of my studies, I love going to gigs, visit ..read more

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. This week we chat with Kespa Katsuk. Tell us a little bit about who you are So, I’m 21 and currently in my third year of Communication Design at RMIT. I was born in Melbourne but am ethnically Chinese-Malaysian and Thai. I grew ..read more

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. First up we have Frances Peck! Tell us a little bit about who you are. I am a Communication Designer located in Melbourne, currently studying a bachelor’s degree in design at RMIT University. I am interested in design and techn ..read more

Each of our senses, when engaged, has the power to call forth strong memories or emotions or it can help us make new ones. So when a designer says ‘designing for the senses’, what do you think about? Do you think about the sounds, the visuals, the space or how things feel? You would be almost right. What about smell and taste—two senses of which we experience the world through daily and yet these often get left out. Samantha Copland started Perfume Playground as a sensory experience for your nose. Perfume Playground offers workshops at which you create your personal, natural signature scent. I ..read more

As designer’s in our respective fields we tend to focus on our disciplines and become really good at what we do…which means we sometimes forget to look outwards to gain new perspectives and to see what designer’s from other design industries are up to. Something More Design is a studio run by Olivia Chapman and Keeley Baird that sees the successful and seamless blending of two design disciplines—graphic and interior design. Chapman and Baird turned their love of design into a practice that assists other brands to tell their stories cohesively across all touch points. Olivia and Keeley turned t ..read more

Halo Print Co is the brainchild of husband and wife team, Meagan and Angel Monsanto. It’s a new print shop that recently opened in Newtown in Sydney’s Inner West offering custom printed tees and other apparel, on-demand printing and a same-day print service. The retail store may only be about a year old but Meagan and Angel have been in the fashion/garment industry game for a while. The motivations behind Halo came about from their years in the wholesale apparel industry where they noticed lackluster customer service and a gap in apparel print-shop offerings. Family and friends and other peopl ..read more

The second installment of Behind the Designer kicks off with Huy Nguyen, a recent designer on issue 9. Huy undoubtedly has an eye for photography and the style that is seen within his photos is reflected back into his design work. Having worked as a freelancer while gaining experience at Ligature Journal, we’ve seen Huy do more and more work in the arts—our curiosity got the better of us and we wanted to know how and why he’s gotten into this sector. Hi again! Having been a part of our team during the pandemic, how have you been coping with everything since? First of all, I would have to say ..read more

As advocates and supporters of young and emerging designers we are finally releasing our first collection of prints, working in collaboration with designers that have worked with us in the past. We welcome Lydia Morgan back into our studio (for an albeit short stint) to collaborate with us and we are now happily offering three of her illustrations (to you) as prints. Lydia was a part of our issue eight team and we took this opportunity to sit down with her and talk about the goings-on since finishing up at Ligature Journal. It’s so nice to have you collaborating with us again! 2020 has been we ..read more

While the start of the pandemic may have felt like a life time ago, it has had lasting ramifications on our society. From quite early on we started seeing racially-charged verbal and physical attacks on the Asian community, a boycotting and avoidance of Asian eateries and supermarkets and closures of our favourite local Asian restaurants. Cases in Australia, at this point, were quite few and far in between but that didn’t stop some members of our society expressing their racially charged views. Designers Michael Souvanthalisith and Muriel-Ann Ricafrente, with Asian-Australian backgrounds thems ..read more