Rebecca Wilkinson 🏅 — library library — Towards a graphic design publication practice | 2020.ocadu.gd

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Rebecca Wilkinson 🏅

library library — Towards a graphic design publication practice

library library explores publication as a graphic design practice. Each issue orbits around a literary text and experiments with form and materiality through formats that challenge the dominant models of commercial graphic design and mainstream publishing. This project aims to build a community through collaborative making, and to connect with a small yet engaged public through various forms of dissemination both analog and digital. library library considers the performative potential of publication, and asks questions about public institutions and shared spaces, libraries and archives, process, and design authorship.

Publication

Exhibition Design

Typography

Design Authorship

About the designer

Rebecca is a native Montrealer who worked as a stylist, producer and art director in the fashion industry before returning to school for graphic design. Her previous studies include a D.E.C. in Social Sciences and a Bachelor of Commerce with a minor in Spanish. Rebecca is interested in art, literature, film and politics, and her current practice is concerned with questions about authorship and the role of design in commerce and culture. The focus of Rebecca’s academic work over the past year has been on the development of a graphic design publication practice called library library.

Bibliography (In Dialogue With Texts) — This 64-page hand-sewn book attempts to express the relationship between a reader and their deep engagement with texts.

Issue No. 1 (The Library of Babel) — A 12-foot long poster inspired by Jorge Louis Borges' short story of the same name in which the author describes an infinite library the size of the entire universe. For more information see: librarylibrary.org/IssueNo1.html

Issue No. 2 (The Books I Haven't Read Yet) — A series of bookmarks shop dropped in the Toronto Public Library, each marking a book on my reading list and pointing to another volume in the library. For more information see: librarylibrary.org/IssueNo2.html

Issue No. 3 (Are.na Fictions) — A series of risographed pocketbooks containing visual narratives inspired by the works of Lydia Davis, and co-created during a 1-hour workshop surrounding the content organization platform, Are.na. For more information see: librarylibrary.org/IssueNo3.html

Issue No. 4 (The Art & Manner of Arranging One's Everything) — A compendium of taxonomic systems that can be re-arranged according to the reader's preference. For more information see: librarylibrary.org/IssueNo4.html