At Boccalatte we surprise audiences with concept-driven, research based design ideas. We explore projects with a playful style and a sense of humour. More than mouth.

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River Project

The River Project considers the Upper Georges River that runs through south west Sydney within the larger context of river systems of Asia and the Pacific by bringing together artists from Australia, China, India, Korea, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines and Vietnam whose work explores river systems. River Systems reflect our interconnectedness, our fragility and [...]

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Sydney Design Storytelling

Hot off the boccalatte press…
In the style of an old-school penguin classic, Sydney Design’s Storytelling book transcends the regular festival program.

Find Storytelling in all good bookshops from Monday or visit the Powerhouse Museum this weekend if you can’t wait.

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By Example

Possibly the largest ‘equals’ sign you’ll see in a book design, with English and Japanese translations and silver special inks throughout.

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Fair Skin Black Fella

A children’s book which explores issues that young Indigenous Australians face.

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Trunk: Volume One: Hair

Trunk books will be a series of small, corporeal, personal, and sensual books. They are intended to be beautiful, coveted objects filled with fascinating content, much like an old trunk in an attic.

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Street Sex & The Law

Sex Workers Outreach Project (SWOP) came to us to produce a series of books for its industry workers.

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Catalyst

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Midway

Works investigating notions of identity, tradition and globalisation by contemporary artists with varying connections to China.

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Platinum

Do people’s faces tell a story of their lives? Is 60 the new 40? What does it mean to age in a time where no one really wants too?

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News from Islands

Named in the top ten art publications internationally by the international journal Art Asia Pacific.

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Mirror States

As curator Lizzie Muller states: “Both art and technology act as mirrors that reflect ourselves and our relationship to the world. Both also create “quasi-others”– entities which we endow with subjectivity through the projection of ourselves.”

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I Am Worse At What I Do Best

Who would of thought that a Nirvana song could have influenced Tom Polo’s exhibition, I Am Worse At What I Do Best?

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Gallery A

The exhibition catalogue explored the gallery’s promotion of abstraction in Australian art, its role in facilitating an exchange between Melbourne and Sydney artists, its influence in introducing to local audiences a number of New York artists, and its contribution towards a growing internationalism in the Australian art world.

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Edge of Elsewhere

An exhibition catalogue for a major three-year project that brings together some of the most exciting contemporary artists from across Australia, Asia and the Pacific

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C*town Bling

Boccalatte was invited to art direct and design this launch exhibition.

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