Contemporary book design 2017
Watch our panel of award-winning graphic designers discuss the challenges and rewards of contemporary book design.
Dome levels 4 and 5 will be closed to the public from Monday 13 May to Friday 24 May. Visit our refreshed World of the Book exhibition from Saturday 25 May.
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Watch our panel of award-winning graphic designers discuss the challenges and rewards of contemporary book design.
Sasha Grishin describes the lithographic process used by ST Gill, the subject of our winter 2015 exhibition, Australian sketchbook.
Barbara Brend on two of the world’s great illuminated manuscripts known as the ‘Khamsas’ or ‘Five Poems’.
Danger, book alert! In the age of the iPad, eBook and Kindle, are books dead?
Watch Sue deGennaro at work in her studio, and see the book illustration process in action.
Did you know that the movie Mao's last dancer is also a picture book illustrated by Anne Spudvilas?
Make a cuppa and sip on the pictorial delights of Jane Tanner’s endearing children’s book Love from Grandma.
Watch as David Miller creates the 3D paper sculptures that feature in his books.
Ann James reveals the art to awakening emotions in young readers through illustration.
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