Typography Studio

Advance reading copy series design for @hutchheinemann I designed these ARC templates for HH back in 2022 – they’re printed on a lovely uncoated cover stock – with a hinge score running down by the spine. The in-house team has been doing great work with them ever since – always sparks joy when I see them being used 📚❤️ #bookdesign #books #bookstagram #newbook #graphicdesign #typography

Cover design for ‘What Would Adam Smith Make of Modern Australia?’ by Joseph Healy – out today from @majorstreetpublishing ‘Enormously relevant to the challenges facing contemporary Australia. Healy draws on Smith’s insights to offer sound suggestions for a stronger Australian economy and a better, fairer Australian society.’ – SAUL ESLAKE You would think that Scottish 18th-Century writer, intellectual, ‘Father of Economics’, Adam Smith would have lost relevance in our modern society. Quite the opposite, according to Joseph Healy, who believes there is much to learn from Adam Smith, if we are to strive for a more equitable, productive and happier society. Australia today is prosperous by many traditional economic measures yet getting progressively poorer by other measures of what constitutes a vibrant, healthy and good society. And the direction of travel is concerning. Australia’s economic pie (GDP) might be growing, but too many people are getting smaller and smaller pieces of it, and a handful are getting far more than they can possibly eat. This thought-provoking book explores how our economic progress seems inversely correlated to a decline in important measures of societal wellbeing, such as the alarming increase in family dysfunctionality, domestic violence, the scale and scope of mental health-associated problems and a persistently deteriorating trend in baseline education. In many ways, Australia is becoming a divided society, and this is a serious trajectory if not addressed and corrected. With historical and recent references, Healy has written an important and engaging discourse for readers keen to understand where our society can improve and how we can assist. #bookdesign #books #bookstagram #newbook #josephhealy #adamsmith #graphicdesign #typography

Cover design for Here Are My Demands by Andrew Roff ‘This is the real deal: smart, wildly imaginative speculative fiction that you’ll read in one sitting and then think about for weeks.’ – Jeff Sparrow It’s 2058 and Maggie Garewal’s moment has arrived. Working on policy with a newly installed government, she is desperate to use what leverage she has to secure real change: a redistributive program to help millions, stricken jobless by automation, into a purposeful life. But progress never comes easily, especially in an augmented reality that blends truth, illusion and misdirection. Daringly speculative and yet all too recognisable, Here Are My Demands is a story about fighting on in the face of resistance, and the unprecedented hazards of a world our children have already started to inhabit. ‘Roff’s vision of our political future is more than just believable – it seems almost destined.’ – Ben Walter ‘I beg you to read Here Are My Demands … an excellent and urgent example of the way speculative fiction makes it possible to see current events clearly and imagine a different future.’ – Pip Adam ‘If spec-econ isn’t a genre already, it just got invented … Roff’s clever, imaginative mix of satire and serious ideas dreams big – and unlike the current field, it doesn’t disappoint.’ – Jennifer Mills ‘Roff explores ideas of ego, privilege, discontent, ambition, and necessary threads of hope and (post)humanity.’ – Angela Meyer Great to work with @wakefieldpress and @roffwrites again! 📚 #bookdesign #books #bookstagram #newbook #andrewroff #herearemydemands #graphicdesign #typography

Recently took a winter break to visit my home state of lutruwita tasmania – epic walks on deserted beaches, cliff tops, mountains, forests, gorges – I spotted dolphins, whales and a few fury friends – and trawled some haunted ruins for bad measure. None of which my phone camera does justice but … it’s something. I thought it’d be freezing (and it was at times) but the sun turned it on. I even snuck in some typesetting from the shack. My heart, the east coast ❤️

Cover design from earlier this year – Everything Will Be Okay by Sean J Gebhardt ‘Sean Gebhardt cuts to the core of the human heart, and all the complications inside it.’ Lauren McQuistin Everything Will Be Okay is a raw, unflinching exploration of addiction, mental illness, and the search for redemption set against California’s opioid crisis. The story follows two men - Nick Wagner, a twenty-year-old battling addiction and the fallout from his recent incarceration, and Henry Foster, a disillusioned psychiatrist struggling with his own mental health after a painful divorce. As Nick falls deeper into addiction and fractured relationships, Henry uncovers secrets in his ex-wife’s diary that threaten to unravel his fragile grip on reality. Both men are trapped in spirals of self-destruction, searching for a way out. As gripping as it is heartbreaking, this novel bleeds onto the page, daring readers to face the darkest corners of the human psyche in search of a glimmer of hope. ‘The poetic sneer of a tender soul trapped in a body. Gebhardt illuminates the terrors and triumphs of navigating the chaos of self, offering slivers of hope to an imploding planet.’ Daniel Levesque Great to work with @bereadnow and @seanfaustus on this one! 📚 #bookdesign #books #bookstagram #newbook #graphicdesign #typography

Published today @versobooks 📚 Cover design for ‘American Imperatives: The Cold War and Other Matters’. A radical reinterpretation of the Cold War by its most iconoclastic historian. “An indispensable book on the historical guises of the indispensable nation.” – Stephen Wertheim, author of Tomorrow, the World In a fundamental challenge to prevailing orthodoxy, Anders Stephanson argues that “the cold war” is better understood as the frame that made the global role of the US after 1947 not only possible but imperative.

Thrilled to have designed the cover for The Slip by Miriam Webster | Out 29 July 2025 via @anikopress 🐐💫 Huge thanks to Emily Riches for having me design the first book from their exciting new publishing venture. Brimming with dark humour, empathy and a sharp eye for the uncanny, The Slip is an electrifying debut by an utterly original new voice. These are stories about the things we can’t hold onto: a marriage drifting out with the tide, a family collapsing like a wave, a young woman’s affair that dissolves as quickly as it ignites. From Melbourne to rural Victoria and beyond, lovers flounder in the push and pull of desire, and families are caught between duty and disarray. A restless couple are visited by an old flame, a washed-up playwright faces his demons and a woman returns to her childhood home to confront her twin brother’s ghost. Elsewhere, a one night stand takes a sinister turn, an intoxicated eel writhes its way to the sea and a grieving gardener finds solace in the dirt beneath his nails. “Clever, tender, full of life and downright sassy. I couldn’t get enough.” – Jennifer Mills 🔗 Preorder your copy direct from @anikopress

Book design for Elle Griffin’s ‘We Should Own The Economy: A vision for the future of capitalism (and the world)’, Elysian Press.

Off to print today – cover design for Luke Horton’s sophomore novel ‘Time Together’ – out March 2025 via @scribepub @luke___horton (of @love_of_diagrams ) ‘Horton is a master of domestic unease.’ – Laura Elizabeth Woollett ‘A slow burn of a novel. Beautifully written and impossible to put down. I loved it.’ – Sophie Cunningham #timetogether #lukehorton #fiction #aussiefiction #bookstagram #scribepublications #scribepub #book #loveofdiagrams

Cover design for the first biography on Australian artist and activist, Portia Geach (1873–1959): Portia Geach: Portrait of an Activist Julie Cotter ISBN: 978-1-7636799-0-0 Joyce Press November 2024 Portia Geach heralded the age of the modern Australian woman. Sophisticated, creative and a formidable advocate for women, she was equally championed for her campaigns and pummelled for interfering in the business of men. The first Australian woman admitted to London’s Royal Academy of Arts, upon her return to Australia she took charge of her career, first as an artist, then becoming a leader in the women’s rights movement. She fought for equal pay, access to political power and better standards of healthcare. She represented Australia at women’s rights assemblies in America, exhibited her paintings internationally, and, in 1929, famously led Sydney’s potato boycott as a challenge to high prices. The Portia Geach Memorial Award was established by the will of Florence Kate Geach, Portia’s sister. It is Australia’s most prestigious art prize for portraiture by women artists – yet Portia has been written out of history. This book tells her story for the first time. Dr Julie Cotter is the author of two books, ‘Portraits Destroyed’ (Thames & Hudson, 2019) and ‘Tom Roberts and the Art of Portraiture’ (Thames & Hudson, 2015), the latter shortlisted for the 2016 Prime Minister’s Literary Award for nonfiction. Publishing in November 2024, coinciding with the 60th anniversary of the Portia Geach Memorial Award. The cover features a colourised portrait of Portia (c.1935), which first appeared within the Progressive Journal (1935), along with a detail of one of Portia’s paintings, ‘Ferries at dusk, Lane Cove River’, oil on canvas, 1919. Very grateful to have been involved in bringing this book to fruition. Pre-order via @shervingallery #portiageach #portraitofanactivist #juliecotter #bookdesign #shervingallery

Out today. Cover and book design for Ian Baker's debut novel, ‘Mr O Winds Back the Clock’. The cover design draws from a key moment in the text – in which the protagonist reflects on “another highlight, a bright spot that illuminates a grey backdrop”. 🟡 Mr O Winds Back the Clock I.J. Baker ISBN: 978-1-7635379-1-0 (PB) ISBN: 978-1-7635379-0-3 (HB) Intricate Books "It is crunch time for the fastidious copy editor Seamus Cullen, who decades earlier had lived very differently. Failing at work and required to take leave, he finds solace in memories of his freewheeling twenties, and pursues them back to a present that’s subtly altered."

Thrilled to have six designs longlisted in the 72nd Australian Book Design Awards! @theabda The State of Capitalism The EReNSEP Writing Collective and Costas Lapavitsas ISBN: 978-1-839-76784-5 Verso Books Concerned Citizen The FBI’s Anarchist Cookbook Dossier ISBN: 978-1-925-78801-3 Tempo Haus An Introduction to Liminal Aesthetics Ali McCann ISBN: 978-1-925788-02-0 Tempo Haus Thus Spake Zarathustra Beyond Good and Evil The Genealogy of Morals Friedrich Nietzsche ISBN: 978-1-922-49164-0 ISBN: 978-1-922-49163-3 ISBN: 978-1-922-49163-3 Haus Editions *Series design Secrets André-Joseph Salis ISBN: 978-0-645-68400-1 Éditions Maudites Like An Angel Who Has Lost Their Way Ilias Kounelas ISBN: 978-0-645-68402-5 Éditions Maudites @versobooks @ali_mccann_pictures #versobooks #AliMcCann #TempoHaus #EditionsMaudites #ÉditionsMaudites #NickTrakakis #NNTrakakis #BookDesign #PublicationDesign #ABDAAwards2024 #ABDA #AustralianBookDesignersAssociation #ABDA2024longlist #abdalonglist