Melbourne Art Book Fair

Overview

More than 100 publishers and designers will converge on NGV International for the Melbourne Art Book Fair, happening as part of Melbourne Design Week. It's an 11-day festival packed with limited-edition books, prints and magazines – as well as launches, exhibitions, talks and workshops.

Drop into Comme des Garçons' store in Somerset Place to see Book Stand, a site-specific collaboration with Perimeter Books featuring a selection of publications, including Dino Simonett's COMME DES GARÇONS PARFUMS 1994-2025. Meanwhile, at CAVES on Swanston Street, you'll find Fusion of Forms, a series of immersive multimedia installations by local artist Xinyuan (Caesar) Li exploring innovations in bilingual typography.

Also on the program is Out of Line, the biggest Australian exhibition of the works of New Zealand designer and typographer Catherine Griffiths to date, as well as Troppo Print Studio's Print Panorama Experiment, which invites you to get involved in creating an evolving silk-screen print. And don't miss NEWSSTAND, where you'll limited-edition editorials by cutting-edge thinkers from The Paris End, Long Prawn and Binatang Press.

Melbourne Art Book Fair is taking place from Thursday, May 15–Sunday, May 25. Check out the rest of the massive program over here.