Ornate Gesture

Naarm/Melbourne

Ornate Gesture is a small-press imprint from designer Ed Hubber, focused on hand-making, designing, publishing, and presenting small-run zines and artist books that re-orient visual design and culture in critical and cheeky ways. Recent publications have explored the rental crisis through monopoly, the giddiness of friendship through vintage cake images, and the recycling of the lobster as a visual symbol. The imprint borrows it's name from Susan Sontag’s ‘notes on camp’ and centres work around high and low brow visual culture, exploring design philosophy through a clash of cut-up visuals and a queer approach.