November 20, 2024, 1pm
Online. Free but RSVP.

Graphic Negotiations is back for a fourth series of online conversations with designers. For this event we’re delighted to welcome Cairo-based graphic designer, Engy Aly.

Engy Aly is a graphic designer with an MFA from the International Master of Design program at UIC/HGK, Basel Academy of Art and Design, and the University of Illinois at Chicago. She primarily focuses on cultural commissions, including posters, catalogs, and artist monographs. She is also the initiator and organizer of various workshops, exhibitions, and events centered around design and visual culture in Cairo and beyond, working under the title ‘Sporadic Schooling.’ https://www.engyaly.com

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.