
Other titles in the series include: Songlines by Margo Neale & Lynne Kelly (2020) Country by Bill Gammage & Bruce Pascoe (2021) Plants by Zena Cumpston, Michael Fletcher & Lesley Head (2022) Astronomy (2022) Law (2023).īuy Design: Building on Country by Alison Page from Australia's Online Independent Bookstore, BooksDirect. This course guides you through the fundamentals of visual and graphic design and lays out their processes.

Design: Building on Country issues a challenge for a new Australian design ethos, one that truly responds to the essence of Country and its people.Ībout the series: Each book is a collaboration between Indigenous and non-Indigenous writers and editors the series is edited by Margo Neale, senior Indigenous curator at the National Museum of Australia. It is visible in the aerodynamic boomerang, the ingenious design of fish traps and the precise layouts of community settlements that strengthen social cohesion.Īlison Page and Paul Memmott show how these design principles of sophisticated function, sustainability and storytelling, refined over many millennia, are now being applied to contemporary practices. Alison Page (NSW) is a Walbanga and Wadi Wadi woman and is an award-winning designer and film producer whose career, spanning 24 years, links Aboriginal stories and traditional knowledge with contemporary design.

Description - Design: Building on Country by Alison Page Aboriginal design is of a distinctly cultural nature, based in the Dreaming and in ancient practices grounded in Country. Correspondence address: 6 Willow Close, Chertsey, Surrey, KT16 9QQ. Alison Page is a Walbanga and Wadi Wadi woman and is an award-winning designer and film producer, connecting Indigenous stories and traditional knowledges.
