AVA Academia
Creative publishers for the applied visual arts
Our books are written by leading academic authorities, the texts undergo peer reviews and are refined through ongoing consultation and development, in order to best reflect the needs of today’s student. To date, many hundreds of universities, colleges and higher education bodies around the world have adopted and recommended our texts across numerous courses and programs.
When our business was founded a few years ago we wanted to rethink the concept of the ‘textbook’. Our audience is visually literate, technically sophisticated and acutely aware of good design and presentation. In our endeavour to create twenty-first-century textbooks for twenty-first-century students, AVA Academia’s titles respond to these qualities. It seemed to us that academic books about the applied visual arts should themselves be both well designed and well written, something that had previously appeared to be an either/or option for many publishers.
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Our readership level system
Our books are written for a student audience where the applied visual arts form part of a course of specialised further education study. As this is a wide audience, with varied levels of knowledge, skill and aptitude, all of our titles fall into one of five readership categories.
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Foundation
AVA’s Visual Dictionaries form our foundation reading list. These titles offer clear, comprehensive and visually informative definitions of the key terms in a discipline’s vocabulary.
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Introductory
The discipline-specific titles in our Fundamentals range are aimed at students embarking on further education and offer a thorough grounding in the subject.
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Intermediate
Our Basics books provide readers with an in-depth exploration of each of the topics introduced in the Fundamentals titles. These books offer both a theoretical and practical approach, supported by examples and exercises.
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Required Reading Range: Course Reader
These reference titles are specifically structured to support the lifetime of an undergraduate degree and provide a detailed exploration of the discipline covered.
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Required Reading Range: Module Reader
These titles are designed to support specialised modules of degree courses and provide a platform for further exploration of the subject matter.
Press enquiries and review copies
For information and press material, or to request review copies, please email press@avabooks.com, giving your name and publication.
Author submissions
We welcome proposals for new titles from academics and authors. Please email editorial@avabooks.com.
Contributor submissions
AVA titles are highly visual in nature, and rely upon a variety of illustrations, case studies and examples of contemporary visual art to support and illuminate the text. If you wish to be considered as a contributor, please email editorial@avabooks.com.
Our office locations
To make an enquiry, please visit the contact us page. AVA Publishing SA is a Swiss-registered company. Our office locations are as follows:
AVA Publishing SA
Rue des Fontenailles 16
Case Postale
1000 Lausanne 6
Switzerland
tel: +41 (0) 786 005 109
English Language Support Office
AVA Publishing (UK) Ltd
Ambrose House
55 Chapel Road
Worthing
West Sussex
BN11 1EE
tel: +44 (0) 1903 204 455
fax: +44 (0) 1903 237 346
AVA Book Production Pte Ltd
Block 13
Toa Payoh
Lorong 8
Braddell Tech #06-08
Singapore 319261
email: production@avabooks.com.sg
tel: +65 (0) 6334 8173
fax: +65 (0) 6259 9830
Our distributors
A list of our worldwide distributors is available here.