Client: The Center for Book Arts
Work: Design, layout and typography
Location: New York City
Date: 2020 – present
Details: The Center for Books Arts is a gallery, archive, book-bindery, letterpress studio, and educational institute in New York City. It celebrates the book as an art object in itself.
Work: Design, layout and typography
Location: New York City
Date: 2020 – present
Details: The Center for Books Arts is a gallery, archive, book-bindery, letterpress studio, and educational institute in New York City. It celebrates the book as an art object in itself.
Exhibition catalog for Lights, Passages, Shadows and Tunnels
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Exhibition catalog for Morcos Key Makes/Reads
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“Morcos Key Makes/Reads,” now on view at the Center for Book Arts, features work by Brooklyn-based design studio Morcos Key, as well as an interview with Debbie Millman.
Makes/Reads, as the name implies, explores the relationship between making and reading. It takes viewers through a selection of print materials designed by Wael Morcos and Jon Key, while also celebrating the books that have influenced them most. In my conversation with Jon and Wael, they discussed how the books they selected for the exhibit all exist within an "ecosystem of thought" — a universe of ideas, beliefs, and values, both aesthetic and political in nature. The books are a manifestation not only of their design practice, but of their social/political/intellectual community as well. Going through the roster of "makes" and "reads" books, it’s easy to notice the dialectical relationship between making and reading: what you read informs what you make, what you make informs what you want to read next. It is less "makes/reads" than "makes/reads/makes/reads/makes/reads...." ad infinitum.
I wanted the brochure to accentuate this idea of exchange and echoing. The idea that making and reading are twin phenomena that inform one another and happen simultaneously. The brochure is printed on lightweight paper that allows ink to show through, symbolizing how the outlines, the shadows of what one reads are always present in what one makes, and vice versa.
“The Private Life of Ragdolls” exhibition catalog (Spanish-English)
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Walter Hamady exhibition catalog, (interior pages only)
Cover design and letter-press printing by Ruth Lingen
Cover paper made by Susan Gosin
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Warren Lehrer exhibition catalog
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Exhibition catalog for Morcos Key Makes/Reads
“Morcos Key Makes/Reads,” now on view at the Center for Book Arts, features work by Brooklyn-based design studio Morcos Key, as well as an interview with Debbie Millman.
Makes/Reads, as the name implies, explores the relationship between making and reading. It takes viewers through a selection of print materials designed by Wael Morcos and Jon Key, while also celebrating the books that have influenced them most. In my conversation with Jon and Wael, they discussed how the books they selected for the exhibit all exist within an "ecosystem of thought" — a universe of ideas, beliefs, and values, both aesthetic and political in nature. The books are a manifestation not only of their design practice, but of their social/political/intellectual community as well. Going through the roster of "makes" and "reads" books, it’s easy to notice the dialectical relationship between making and reading: what you read informs what you make, what you make informs what you want to read next. It is less "makes/reads" than "makes/reads/makes/reads/makes/reads...." ad infinitum.
I wanted the brochure to accentuate this idea of exchange and echoing. The idea that making and reading are twin phenomena that inform one another and happen simultaneously. The brochure is printed on lightweight paper that allows ink to show through, symbolizing how the outlines, the shadows of what one reads are always present in what one makes, and vice versa.
“The Private Life of Ragdolls” exhibition catalog (Spanish-English)
Walter Hamady exhibition catalog, (interior pages only)
Cover design and letter-press printing by Ruth Lingen
Cover paper made by Susan Gosin
Warren Lehrer exhibition catalog
