October 23 2024, 1pm
Online. Free but RSVP.

Graphic Negotiations is back for a fourth series of online conversations with designers, with the first event featuring regular Book Works collaborators, Traven T. Croves.

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 designer 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 a series of lunchtime talks with designers, some 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 choose. 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.

For the 13th event in the series, we’ll be joined by Traven T. Croves, the collaborative design project of Matthew Stuart and Andrew Walsh-Lister.

Matthew Stuart and Andrew Walsh-Lister are typographers, editors and writers currently based between the UK and US respectively. They co-edit / co-run the irregular journal / multifarious publishing imprint Bricks from the Kiln and occasionally work together under the collaborative moniker Traven T. Croves. 
Matthew is a Senior Lecturer at Kingston School of Art. And Andrew is a Senior Critic at Yale School of Art.