Wednesday 7 August, 6.30pm
London Centre for Book Arts, E3 2NQ
Book a free place here.

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, with designer, artist and editor working together to create a book that realises the artists’ vision.

Graphic Negotiations is our series of talks with designers. The format and topic vary – we want to give designers the opportunity to present their work in whichever way they want to. In some cases designers are in conversation with artists they’ve collaborated with in the past, in others they talk about their work and ideas more generally or present a visual portfolio.

For this twelfth event in the series we welcome Claire Mason and Matthew Walkerdine. This is a one-off live event at the London Centre for Book Arts. We’ll be announcing a new autumn series of online events soon.

Claire Mason is a publication designer, educator and occasional writer, with a background in publishing including work with: Four Corners Books, Penguin Books, Bloomsbury and Book Works Studio. For a number of years, Claire was the in-house typographer for Penguin Books UK and as a graphic design educator has taught in the School of Design at the University of Greenwich and London College of Communication. flushleft.co.uk

Matthew Walkerdine: is a designer and co-founder of the artist led bookshop and project space Good Press (est. 2011, Glasgow) – a workers cooperative dedicated to the promotion, distribution and production of independent or self published printed matter. His work is practice-led with a particular focus in sub-underground music and fandom, community and collaboration and re-situating these in an art and design publishing context. He currently leads – The Grass is Green in the Fields for You – a publishing project which explores sound and music, its participants and its visual culture. matthewwalkerdine.com