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Avril Makula is a book designer, book artist and bookbinder.

After attaining a visual arts degree, the lure of the printed word led her to a career as a graphic designer specialising in book production and design. Recently she has expanded her art practice, in which she prints and binds books using both traditional and experimental structures. Her multidisciplinary approach gives her a thorough working knowledge of all aspects of bookmaking.

Her handmade books have been exhibited nationally and internationally, and she has won prizes for her work. In 2018, under her Alphabet City Press imprint, Avril published Type Town: a neighbourhood of glyphs, graffiti, ligatures and legs, which features photographs of the artful and fantastic type adorning Sydney’s Inner West. The National Library of Australia and State Library of NSW have added her works to their collections.