Eight Blocks Or A Field Publication

Eight Blocks Or A Field
Kate Davis

Designed by James Brook

Edition of 500
Published by Temporary Gallery, Cologne, 2013
Publication supported by Creative Scotland and Kunstiftung NRW, Düsseldorf

Printed on Chromomatt and Colorplan Bright Red by Allander, Edinburgh
36 pages with soft cover
160 x 200 mm

Un Voyage en Mer

Un Voyage en Mer
Sharon Kivland

Translated by Sophie Leclercq

Designed by James Brook

Edition of 200
Published by Frac Bretagne, 2013
ISBN 978-2-906127-41-8
24 pages stapled
230 x 145 mm

Neuzeit, again

Serge Charchoune Book

Serge Charchoune
Merlin James

Designed by James Brook

Edition of 1,000
Published by Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh and The Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, 2013
Publication supported by Charlotte Artus, Artus Art, London

Printed by Allander, Edinburgh
80 pages with hard cover
210 x 148 mm

A book about the work of the Franco-Russian painter Serge Charchoune, which was published to coincide with an exhibition of Charchoune's work that was shown in Edinburgh and Chicago. The exhibition was curated by the Glasgow-based artist Merlin James, who was keen that the book mark a new level of scholarship around this under-researched figure, providing an in-depth critical analysis of Charchoune's career and documenting the exhibits in catalogue raisoneé detail. I developed a design based on the visual language of the catalogue raisoneé, that ordered Merlin James' extensive research for each painting in the exhibition in a rationalised and accessible manner. Two illustrated essays by Merlin James and Annick Morard contextualise Charchoune's work, and gave me the opportunity to develop a playful rhythm with the positioning of images within the text. The book was printed on Hello Silk and was casebound with a matt grey cover complete with Royal Blue endpapers, giving a sense of a book that was slightly out of time.

unsmoothmaking

unsmoothmaking
Psykick Dancehall, Giuseppe Mistretta and Sarah Forrest

Designed by James Brook

Published as part of an exchange between Transmission Gallery, Glasgow and Lothringer13_Laden, Munich, with support from Glasgow Visual Arts Grants

44 pages bound with metal paper fastener
297 x 210 mm

unsmoothmaking is a publication that accompanied an exhibition at Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, and that documents a month long artists' residency in October, 2012, at the artist run initiative Lothringer13_Laden in Munich. Psykick Dancehall, Giuseppe Mistretta and Sarah Forrest presented new video works at Transmission; the exhibition opened with the launch of the publication on 15 June.

unsmoothmaking is a collaborative work that operates as a guidebook or manual for future spoken word performances, some of which were presented throughout the opening afternoon event. The publication was launched at Lothringer13_Laden on the 22 June.













The publication was printed digitally at Clydeside Press in Glasgow and is designed to be taken apart, with loose pages held with a metal paper fastener; the pages are A4 on various coloured paper stocks; they can be photocopied and distributed for performing the texts within.

Scraps From The Bottom Of My Pocket

Scraps From The Bottom Of My Pocket
Bywords in Flexion
Vincent Dachy

Designed by James Brook

Edition of 500
ISBN 978 1 906441 29 6
Published by Artwords Press, London, 2013

Printed on Olin by Aldgate Press, London
96 pages with soft cover
153 x 228 mm