Dublin Art Book Fair 2024

In 2024, Temple Bar Gallery + Studios presented the fourteenth edition of Dublin Art Book Fair (DABF). A centre for the artist book, DABF is a focal point to artists, designers, writers, and collectives to make, sell, and platform their publications. It champions creative, small and independent publishers; Irish and international.

Guest Curator Adrian Duncan presented his theme Fictions: The makings of other worlds; he offered ways to explore the theme through a selection of nominated books and a series of talks with invited guests. Duncan's curated programme considered different ways stories can be told; the images, spaces, objects, figures, feelings that emerge while doing so; and the sorts of truths they propose.

The visual identity initially took root in ideas around technology and the graphic language of coding – thinking about it as a mode of creation. Large-scale holographic window vinyl maximised the venue's prominent street-side location in Dublin's Temple Bar, while a large-scale wallpaper panel on the interior wall was also visible from the street. Bookmarks, posters and other printed collateral were also produced to promote the fair.