Book Design Clinic
Event Info
This workshop takes place across two sessions:
- Tues, July 6, 6–8pm ET
- Tues, July 13, 6–8pm ET
Create a mock-up of a cover, title page, half title, first page, and first opening. The clinic will look at the type, design, layout, and other features of the project and think about how these support the theme and concept of the project. Participants should be prepared to show their work effectively by sharing their screens or putting images into a PPT, if possible. The clinic will be two-hours and held once a month for three months (possibly longer, if interest warrants).
There are a total of 10 spots open in this workshop.
If you cannot comfortably pay tuition but are interested in taking this class, please consider filling out our financial assistance application here. We will notify you of your scholarship status before the start date of the class.
Required Materials
- A cover, title page, half title, first page, and first opening of a book project you are working on.
About the Instructor
Johanna Drucker is the Breslauer Professor of Bibliographical Studies in the Department of Information Studies at UCLA. She is internationally known for her work in the history of graphic design, typography, experimental poetry, fine art, and digital humanities. A collection of her essays, What Is? (Cuneiform Press) was published in 2013 and Graphesis: Visual Forms of Knowledge Production (Harvard University Press) appeared in 2014. Digital_Humanities, co-authored with Anne Burdick, Peter Lunenfeld, Todd Presner, and Jeffrey Schnapp, (MIT Press) was published in 2012. In addition to her academic work, Drucker has produced artist‘s books and projects that were the subject of a retrospective, Druckworks: 40 years of books and projects, that began at Columbia College in Chicago in 2012. She is internationally known for her work in artists’ books, the history of graphic design, typography, experimental poetry, fine art, and digital humanities. Her work is represented in special collections in museums and libraries in the North American and Europe. In 2014 she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Recent work includes Diagrammatic Writing (Onomatopée, 2014), Fabulas Feminae (Litmus Press, 2015) and two titles published in 2018, The General Theory of Social Relativity, (The Elephants), and Downdrift: An Eco-fiction (Three Rooms Press). In 2019 she was in residence as the inaugural Distinguished Senior Fellow at Yale University. Her 1988 work, Bookscape, was featured in the “Artists and their Books” exhibit at the Getty Research Institute in summer 2018. Her forthcoming titles include, Visualizing Interpretation (MIT, 2020), and Encountering Iliazd (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020). Her work has been translated into Korean, Catalan, Chinese, Spanish, French, Hungarian, and Portuguese.
Top image: detail of Johanna Drucker, Stochastic Poetics. All images courtesy of the instructor.
