A new event series exploring the role of designers in creating artists' books. Book Works sees graphic design as crucial to realising artists and writers' ideas in the final form of the book. While conventionally designers often become involved in the later stages of a book's production, and with a limited brief, we involve the design in a collaborative process from the start to realise, with designer, artist and editor working together to create a book that realises the artists' vision.

Graphic Negotiations is a series of lunchtime talks with designers, many of whom we've worked with in the past. The format and topic will vary – we wanted to give designers the opportunity to present their work in whichever way they wanted to. In some cases designers will be in conversation with artists they've collaborated with in the past, in others they'll talk about their work and ideas more generally or present a visual portfolio.

This second event in the series features Rosen Eveleigh, who we have recently worked with on a major project, Dark Room: Sex and Protest in San Francisco 1988–2003 by Phyllis Christopher.

Rosen Eveleigh is a designer and researcher working independently or with artists, archives, editors, cultural institutions and publishers to produce graphic identities, typefaces, websites, texts, lectures, books and other works. They are interested in the historic and methodological relationship between graphic design and queer culture. Alongside their practice they teach on the MA Graphic Design at the Estonian Academy of Arts. Website: www.roseneveleigh.com.

All events are online only, free to attend and will be between 1-1.45 pm on weekdays. The next two events in the series will be:

Wednesday 18th May – Erik Hartin and Moa Pårup

Wednesday 15th June – Rose Nordin and Rosa-Johan Uddoh

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