Create with Me: InDesign | Book Design with Zoë Sadokierski & Dan Milnor

Join us for a design-forward edition of Create with Me: InDesign, led by acclaimed book designer and educator Zoë Sadokierski and Blurb’s creative ambassador Dan Milnor. In this interactive workshop, you’ll follow along in InDesign as they demonstrate the advanced decisions—grids, pacing, hierarchy, and typographic clarity—that give professionally designed books their impact.

Sadokierski will show you how she builds structure on the page, balances text and images, and uses layout systems to create clean, intentional visual rhythm. Milnor will bring the storytelling perspective, walking through how sequencing, editorial choices, and design discipline shape a strong narrative through print. Together, they’ll design a layout in real time and explain why each choice matters.

Whether you're refining a project or starting from a loose idea, you’ll leave with practical tools, creative insight, and a clearer sense of how pros think through every step of book design. Fire up InDesign and bring a project idea (polished or messy) and your curiosity. Let’s make something exceptional together.

About Zoë Sadokierski

Zoë Sadokierski is a designer, writer, creative producer, and associate professor in Visual Communication at the UTS School of Design. She served as a Blurb Ambassador in 2023 and has created a number of books with Blurb. Her practice-based research explores ways that visual communication—particularly illustrated nonfiction, data storytelling, and anarchival collage—can be used to engage audiences with complex scientific and cultural issues. She is a former president and founding member of the Australian Book Designers Association. In 2015, Zoë established Page Screen Books, an independent publisher of artists’ books and visual essays. Her works on paper and artist books have been exhibited and collected internationally. Her book Father, Son and Other Animals (2024) explores climate change and species extinctions through the lenses of parenting and creative practice.

About Dan Milnor

Daniel Milnor is Blurb's creative ambassador. Milnor is a former news, editorial, and commercial photographer who now works primarily on long-term projects. His work combines still photographs, motion, sound, and the written word. Milnor began printing his work in the darkroom in 1988 and has self-published hundreds of titles, from award-winning to experimental. He has taught at the Art Center College of Design and the Academy of Art University. His work is in the collections of The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The George Eastman House, and the Santa Barbara Museum of Art. He lives in New Mexico.