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Graphic Negotiations #6 – Fraser Muggeridge
Wed 9 November, 1pm, online. Free but RSVP.
(rescheduled from 19 October )
Book Works sees graphic design as crucial to realising artists’ and writers’ ideas in the final form of the book. Graphic Negotiations is our series of online lunchtime talks with designers, most of whom we’ve worked with in the past. The format and topic vary – we wanted to give designers the opportunity to present their work in whichever way they wanted 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, but all will reflect on the relations between art and design in creating artists’ books.
For this sixth event in the series we are delighted to welcome Fraser Muggeridge, a designer Book Works has a long history of collaboration with, who will be talking about paragraphs and design.
Fraser Muggeridge founded and runs Fraser Muggeridge Studio, a graphic design company based in London. He also founded and is a tutor at Typography Summer School, a week-long programme of typographic study for recent graduates and professionals, held in London (since 2010) and New York (since 2013). He is a visiting lecturer at The University of Reading (since 2003) on the MA Book Design Course.
He completed a practice-based PhD entitled ‘A Knowing Wrongness: Innovation in graphic design through combinations of traditional mastery and deliberately unconventional techniques’ at RMIT, Melbourne, Australia, in January 2022 (watch examination video here).
Image: Fraser Muggeridge
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Battle #1 (San Romano, 1432) – Francesco Pedraglio
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Introducing the first of four short films commissioned by Book Works to mark the publication of Francesco Pedraglio’s Battles Vol. 1 (2022). Watch here.
Co-published by Book Works and Parallel // Oaxaca, and designed by Santiago Da Silva, Francesco Pedraglio’s new book uses battles as a story-telling frame to focus on the small details and absurdities that characterise almost all historical events and end up changing the course of their action.
Mixed into the historical stories are personal accounts, trivial and idiosyncratic events that become elevated to the same status as those that affect history. In these short films, each inspired by a different historical battle, reenactment is reimagined as a radical, DIY practice.
Upcoming events:
Turin Launch
15 November 2022, 7pm
Norma Mangione Gallery
via Matteo Pescatore 17
10124 Turin
normamangione.com
Online launch
30 November 2022
Live readings and discussion with Francesco Pedraglio and special guests.
More details/guests TBA
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November Book of the Month: Licorice by Bridget Penney
Our book of the month for November, with 30% off, is Licorice by Bridget Penney
Chalk, gorse, old coppice, redundant dew ponds, a crossroads formed by the intersection of a B road and an ancient fisherman’s track. It’s August. The rain shows no sign of stopping. Licorice, a reclusive middle-aged filmmaker, has only a brief window of opportunity to realise her long-cherished film project about the story of Nan Kemp. A grisly story of infanticide, cannibalism and rough justice remembered on the map: local kids have dared and scared each other to run round ‘the witch’s grave’ since way back when. The rebuilt windmill provides a hypothetical link between the time from which Nan’s ‘story’ springs and the present. The idea of folk horror and well-worn tropes lifted from films such as The Mask of Satan, The Blair Witch Project and Irma Vep give this narrative about failing to create a narrative its shape.
Bridget Penney is a writer based in Brighton. Her previous books are Honeymoon with Death and Other Stories (1991), and Index, published by Book Works (2008, 2nd edition, 2015) as the opening entry in the Semina series of experimental novels, guest edited by Stewart Home. Licorice (2020) is the first book in our Interstices series; the second title in the series, Other Reflexes by Diana Georgiou, is available to pre-order now.
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