https://www.studioregina.work/projects daily 1.0 2023-03-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/584f4ff259cc68d6296bff9b/1482038843285-U4L9M2D92I0EUQCB2TLZ/01_100Story.jpg Projects - Impossible Collage illustrations for early harvest volume 5: The Impossible Issue. Early Harvest is an after-school program run by 100 Story Building that brings together an editorial board of upper-primary students from Melbourne’s west and provides them with mentoring and workshops to publish an issue of the yearly literary journal, early harvest. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/584f4ff259cc68d6296bff9b/1482056547976-9KHCB86K1TPYPX0DUKHV/09_Foodbook_09.jpg Projects - The Food Book Book design and art direction for Oxford University Press. Winner of the Best Designed Secondary Education Book at the 2011 Australian Book Design Association Awards. Photography by Brent Parker Jones. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/584f4ff259cc68d6296bff9b/1482119314600-LRIXGM4AA8NPXGV1OLON/08_Simhanada_00.jpg Projects - Simhanada Yoga Art direction and brand development for Simhanada Yoga, an ashtanga vinyasa yoga studio in Collingwood. Photography by Brent Lukey, architecture by Richard Stampton Architects. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/584f4ff259cc68d6296bff9b/1482131229408-X34UVJY4VRZLV9SWV6DK/OUP_Covers_07.jpg Projects - OUP covers Various book covers published by Oxford University Press https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/584f4ff259cc68d6296bff9b/1481696278836-T8SBZSP8Z1815A6Z5GJ3/02_OxfordMaths.jpg Projects - Oxford Maths Book cover series design for Oxford University Press https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/584f4ff259cc68d6296bff9b/1482542775747-9QWY58CV5VLHTISB2XCS/03_Numbers_000.jpg Projects - A Story of Natural Numbers Book design and illustration for Black Dog Books. Illustrations are made up entirely of three shapes: circles, triangles and rectangles. Winner of the Best Designed Non-fiction Children's Book at the 2010 Australian Book Design Association's Awards. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/584f4ff259cc68d6296bff9b/1482118939848-0YP5VTGVBKUT35W82XBD/04_CB_00.jpg Projects - Consumer Behaviour in Action Book design and art direction for Oxford University Press. Winner of the Best Designed Higher Education Book at the 2014 Australian Book Design Association Awards. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/584f4ff259cc68d6296bff9b/1482123979133-RZ7DKY73UFJTPJHB2IM3/06_Jam1.jpg Projects - A hatred for fresh fruit Art direction, food styling and photography for a personal project about jams consumed over winter. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/584f4ff259cc68d6296bff9b/1481691358049-I8TQOBLF5W838J0X6FDZ/SalveRegina01.jpg Projects - Salve Regina Collage illustrations for Studio Regina identity. (Yes, Regina means "Queen" in Latin.) This series explores different types of "queen figures" I grew up with. The first is the Maria Clara, the demure, self-effacing stereotype who dutifully submits to her husbands every command. She is the true monarch of the family, but blinded and bound by social and moral values. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/584f4ff259cc68d6296bff9b/1550648539918-SG5MU6AN4Y5WEG86WI39/ABDA_SurveyResults_final-1.jpg Projects - ABDA Survey Data analysis and visualisation for the Australian Book Designers Association https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/584f4ff259cc68d6296bff9b/1550650384867-0V6PHRFRY6325YNT3WHF/AAD_Cover.jpg Projects - Australian Antarctic Division Report Data visualisation and publication design for the Australian Antarctic Division and RMIT https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/584f4ff259cc68d6296bff9b/1678860156604-B6Y39J2HR26EQOOOKX06/RA_snacking_1to3.gif Projects https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/584f4ff259cc68d6296bff9b/1679022970891-5PIN3VRDJJB3OB420KF0/BooksinGreece_main.jpg Projects - Perspectives on book cover design This self-initiated book cover series explores a reader’s relationship with a book rather than the content of a book. It interrogates the role of the cover and the cover designer in publication design — given that the designer assigns meaning to the story as a reader, can it ever really truly reflect an author’s intention? This process was also an exercise in mark-making and responding intuitively. It was a radical departure from my normal process of designing a commercial book cover: thoroughly reading the manuscript, meticulously researching a topic, speaking to the author, looking at an author’s other work, asking the publisher lots of questions, considering an audience. This however, was an act of listening deeply and being present. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/584f4ff259cc68d6296bff9b/1550647939593-7S3DNMXW5XFJKGPMG1XQ/Salmon-1.jpg Projects - How to travel with salmon Produced as part of a master’s degree information design course at Swinburne University of Technology, this publication looked at illustrating a non-data based narrative with data and data visualisations. Using Umberto Eco’s essay How to Travel with Salmon, the design ruminates on the author’s encyclopaedic historical knowledge: the iconography pays tribute to Otto and Marie Neurath’s seminal ISOTYPE illustrations from 1935 and etymologies hidden within the French folds are a subtle nod to the linguistic work that underpins all of Eco’s writing. The book design celebrates the playful — and sometimes absurd — interaction between the pleasantly chaotic storyline and tidbits of data. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/584f4ff259cc68d6296bff9b/1679021389702-S8XH9CNY1SAA229KQ3MG/RA_snacking_1to3.gif Projects - Behaviour change through data visualisation This is a pilot of a more extensive 3-year study on how the process of recording and representing data using familiar, everyday materials can lead to long-term behaviour change in environmentally sustainable consumer practices. Built on the theory that data visualisations — when constructed using interactive, tactile, sonic, olfactory or edible materials — have the potential to enable reflection and change habits through physical, emotional, intellectual and social engagement, this study aimed to knock my own compulsive snacking behaviour on the head for a period of nine weeks. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/584f4ff259cc68d6296bff9b/1678868335102-OE26LI2591GBYYAL4VZG/RA_books_2.jpg Projects - Commercial book cover design Commissioned by various book publishers, this selection of concepts features some cover designs that have successfully made it to bookstore shelves and some that have ended up on the cutting room floor. Can you guess which ones were given the green light by marketing and which ones weren’t? Shoot me an email to let me know how many you got right. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/584f4ff259cc68d6296bff9b/1678860745514-QZR2LY0UMXKTF4BYW8QU/Maths101.jpg Projects - Adam Spencer's Maths 101 Commissioned by Hardie Grant Books, winner of the Best Designed Educational Book, Australian Book Design Awards 2022; typeset by Kerry Cooke https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/584f4ff259cc68d6296bff9b/1678863678242-FQIH8K2R0C8T1C6YU7D0/INGY_cover_main.jpg Projects - I'm not ghosting you Written by Jeremy Fernando, I’m not ghosting you is a bricolage of poetry, prose, and photography that attempts to explore the notion of ghosts in our lives in its various permutations. Because sound, tonality and music are central to the writing, the design explores the idea of the book as sonic object, where readers are invited to flip through the book in a rhythmical manner by way of an edge index. Inspired by a navigation method from books designed in the mid-19th century, the sounds produced by flipping the pages creates ephemeral, ghostly traces of how a reader traverses through the text while at the same time leaving visible memories of what they have read. The cadence and rhythm of the book can be experienced by rapidly flipping through the book and watching (and listening) to the symbols running down the foredge. The cover and the symbology in the edge index are set in Morse code, an extension of the visual language in the second piece in the book, a conversation of dots and dashes over time. Both an optic and sonic manner of communication, Morse code deconstructs language down to a skeletal, ghostly yet universal form. The typography also keeps in line with the notion of death’s remnants. “Dead” punctuation marks hat are no longer used in publishing for one reason or another (i.e. the acclamation point and the interrobang), have been used in the design to annotate the sections in prose. Punctuation ghosts, if you like. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/584f4ff259cc68d6296bff9b/1679281637543-AEI6D6PRQF7H8R76NUNC/Ventanilla_main2.jpg Projects - Ventanilla: Duet A collaboration between Larry Ypil (Yale NUS) and historian Martin Dusinberre (University of Zurich), Ventanilla: Duet documents written correspondence between the authors about family and difficult colonial histories in the Phillipines and Australia. As the designer, it was an opportunity for me to don both my data visualisation and book designer hats, experimenting with how the intersection of these two design practices could reveal rhythms in a conversation and highlight contexts, subjectivities and nuances in interpretations of historical archives. More importantly, it was a chance to engage with histories of two places I call home. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/584f4ff259cc68d6296bff9b/1679195205168-HOYA48DINMT0W8UYQK52/StarWars_01.jpg Projects - Star Wars charater map How can we shift metaphorical representation in popular media like Star Wars to question hierarchies of power and social constructs? How do my own representations reflect my cultural point of view? These were NOT the research questions this project began with. 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