Practise

Tony Smith Catalogue Raisonné Project

Series identity & design: Tony Smith Catalogue Raisonné Project, Tony Smith Foundation / MIT Press, 2024

An exhibition view showing white wall with assorted coloured blocks and archival photos with hand lettering, a large portrait of a Black woman on the gallery's far wall, and a scrim with colourful architectural elements on the right edge of the frame

Exhibition design: Dear Mazie, ICA VCU, 2024 (with AD-WO)

Korean Hangeul stencil lettering typeset in various sizes over a blurry photo of a view out of an airplane window with pale blue sky, dark blue clourds and a slight rainbow effect on the soft horizon

Typeface & poster design: A-Project A-Stencil, AG Typography Institute, Seoul, 2024

View of exhibition gallery featuring multimedia sculptures by Nam June Paik, including a head, a robot, and a large wall-sized photo of the artist with an empty television on his head

Exhibition design: Nam June Paik: The Miami Years, The Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, 2024

A three-quarter diagonal view of a book showing thick spine and cover, with the title “Who Are We Now?” in heavy white type and various black line art illustrations from past and present scattered over the cover, all printed on terracotta-coloured linen-embossed stock

Book design: Who Are We Now?, Hat & Beard Editions, 2023 Print Edition | Web Edition

Creative direction: Martina Plantijn, Klim Type Foundry, 2023 (with Eva Vermandel and Stephanie Specht)

Josh Kline: Project for a New American Century

Book design: Josh Kline: Project for a New American Century, Whitney Museum of American Art, 2023

Titus Kaphar, Reginald Dwayne Betts, Redaction

Book design: Titus Kaphar & Dwayne Betts: Redaction, W. W. Norton, 2023

Detail of an uncut press sheet with book front cover, spine, back cover, and inside flaps upside-down above, printed all in an intense blue over images of environmental activist protests and the US–Mexico border, with the words Designing Peace, Building a Better Future Now, and the question What might be possible if society were to design for peace?

Book design: Designing Peace, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, 2022

The front cover of Liu Ye: The Book Paintings, featuring a painting of a red hard cover book with base fore edge visible, creating a vision of a kind of uncanny meta book, a book within a book

Book design: Liu Ye: The Book Paintings, David Zwirner, 2021

Identity system and website design & art direction for San Francisco-based interior design studio Chroma

Identity system, website design: Chroma, 2021 (with Marie Otsuka)

Books Are Still Open, London Centre for Book Arts, 2021

Poster, postcards: Books Are Still Open, London Centre for Book Arts, 2021

“Dedication” by David Tomas Martinez: “Lately, I sleep / Most hours of the day, / Not because I'm depressed, / but so as not to give up on my dreams”

Typography: David Tomas Martinez, Dedication, Poetry in Motion, Providence, Poetry Society of America, 2021

Recent book design

Recent book design projects: Renaissance Society, Tate, MCA Chicago, ICA Miami, 2019–20

Art Design Chicago

Identity system, campaign, signage: Art Design Chicago, 2018

Ways of Hearing

Book design, picture editing: Damon Krukowski, Ways of Hearing, MIT Press, 2019

Pop Culture Colour Theory RISD 2019

Riso print: Pop Culture Colour Theory, RISD, 2019

Otobong Nkanga: From Where I Stand

Book design: Otobong Nkanga: From Where I Stand, Tate St Ives, 2019

Boot Boyz Biz, Cybernetic Serendipities

Sweatshirt graphics: Boot Boyz Biz, Cybernetic Serendipities, 2019

Moiré Workshop, 2011–ongoing

Children’s public programme: Moiré Workshop, 2011–ongoing

Jeanne Gang: Mining the City, Berlin Family Lectures, University of Chicago, 2018

4-colour Riso print: Jeanne Gang: Mining the City, University of Chicago, 2018

Kerry James Marshall: Mastry, Skira Rizzoli, 2016

Book design: Kerry James Marshall: Mastry, Skira Rizzoli, 2016

Pop Culture Colour Theory, Art Institute of Chicago, 2017

3-channel multi-sensory lecture performance: Pop Culture Colour Theory, Art Institute of Chicago, 2017

Studio Gang website, 2015

Website design: Studio Gang Architects, 2016 (with Studio Scasascia)

Exhibition identity: Two Markets, RISD Architecture, 2019 (Curated by Emanuel Admassu & Jen Wood, AD-WO)

Flat Out magazine issues 1 and 2

Magazine art direction & design: Flat Out, 2016–ongoing (Portraits: Cody Hudson, Tom Bachtell)

Flat Out magazine issues 3 and 4

Magazine art direction & design: Flat Out, 2016–ongoing (Portraits: Na Kim, Tamara Shopsin)

André Jolles, Simple Forms, Verso, 2017

Cover design: André Jolles, Simple Forms, Verso, 2017

Tutti a Tavola!

Exhibition identity & design: Tutti a Tavola!, Milan, 2010 (with David Kohn Architects)

Postcard, website, David Kohn Architects, 2015

Identity, website design: David Kohn Architects, 2015

Terra Foundation Essays

Series design direction: Terra Foundation Essays, 2016–ongoing

IIT Architecture Chicago Spring 2014

Poster design, CMYK with fluoro substituted inks: IIT Architecture, 2014

Typeface design: Prismaset, Lineto, 2016 (with Rafael Koch & Mauro Paolozzi)

Sam Prekop, The Republic, 2015

Record cover design & art direction: Sam Prekop, The Republic, Thrill Jockey, 2015 (Artwork: David Hartt)

Image, Building, Object

2-colour Riso printed poster series: Image Building Object, Black Cinema House, 2013

Ettore Sottsass and the Poetry of Things, Phaidon, 2015

Book design: Ettore Sottsass and the Poetry of Things, Phaidon, 2015

Typesetting for artist Nathan Coley

Custom type, typography: Nathan Coley, text sculpture series, 2006–ongoing

Pastoral Warning Sign

Design, illustration: Pastoral Warning Sign, Design Museum, London, 2015

Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster: TH.2058, Tate Modern, 2008

Exhibition identity, signage: Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster: TH.2058, Tate Modern, 2008 (with Régis Tosetti)

Seasonal programme booklets, Tate St Ives, 2008–2010

Seasonal programme booklet series: Tate St Ives, 2008–2010

The Way of the Shovel: On the Archaeological Imaginary in Art, MCA Chicago

Book design, custom type: The Way of the Shovel, MCA Chicago, 2013 (with Scott Reinhard)

No Ban No Wall, 2017

No Ban No Wall, protest poster, 2017

MCA Monographs series, MCA Chicago, 2011–13 (with Scott Reinhard & Alfredo Ruiz)

Christopher Raeburn, identity, 2009

Christopher Raeburn, identity, 2009 (with Régis Tosetti)

Olafur Eliasson: The Weather Project, Tate Modern, 2003

Olafur Eliasson: The Weather Project, Tate Modern, 2003 (with Laurenz Brunner)

Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec: Bivouac, invitation, MCA Chicago, 2012

Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec: Bivouac, MCA Chicago, 2012 (with Scott Reinhard & Alfredo Ruiz)

Moiré, Chaumont, France, 2012 (with Jürg Lehni)

This Will Have Been, MCA Chicago, 2012

This Will Have Been, MCA Chicago, 2012 (with Scott Reinhard)

This Will Have Been: Art, Love & Politics in the 1980s, MCA Chicago, 2012

This Will Have Been, MCA Chicago, 2012 (with Scott Reinhard)

Rand tote, 2014 (with David Hartt)

Rands tote, 2014 (with David Hartt)

The Wire magazine, 2005–2007

The Wire magazine, art direction & design, 2005–2007

Robin Hood Gardens: Re-Visions, Twentieth Century Society, London, 2010

Robin Hood Gardens: Re-Visions, Twentieth Century Society, 2010 (with Jeremy Jansen)

Read It and Weep

News International, Split Fountain, Auckland, 2011

File Notes, Camden Arts Centre, London, 2004—ongoing

File Notes, Camden Arts Centre, London, 2004—2021 (with Sara De Bondt)

Liz Magor: BLOWOUT, Renaissance Society, 2019

Liz Magor: BLOWOUT, Renaissance Society, 2019

Peace on Earth, Practise, 2015 (with Beatrix Goggin)

Tony Smith Catalogue Raisonné Project

Tony Smith Catalogue Raisonné, MIT Press, 2024

An exhibition view showing white wall with assorted coloured blocks and archival photos with hand lettering, a large portrait of a Black woman on the gallery's far wall, and a scrim with colourful architectural elements on the right edge of the frame

Dear Mazie, ICA VCU, 2024 (wit hAD-WO)

Korean Hangeul stencil lettering typeset in various sizes over a blurry photo of a view out of an airplane window with pale blue sky, dark blue clourds and a slight rainbow effect on the soft horizon

A-Project: A-Stencil, AGTI, Seoul, 2024

View of exhibition gallery featuring multimedia sculptures by Nam June Paik, including a head, a robot, and a large wall-sized photo of the artist with an empty television on his head

Nam June Paik, The Bass, Miami Beach, 2024

A three-quarter diagonal view of a book showing thick spine and cover, with the title “Who Are We Now?” in heavy white type and various black line art illustrations from past and present scattered over the cover, all printed on terracotta-coloured linen-embossed stock

Who Are We Now?, Hat & Beard, 2023

Martina Plantijn, Klim Type Foundry, 2023

Josh Kline: Project for a New American Century

Josh Kline, Whitney Museum of American Art, 2023

Titus Kaphar, Reginald Dwayne Betts, Redaction

Redaction, W. W. Norton, 2023

Detail of an uncut press sheet with book front cover, spine, back cover, and inside flaps upside-down above, printed all in an intense blue over images of environmental activist protests and the US–Mexico border, with the words Designing Peace, Building a Better Future Now, and the question What might be possible if society were to design for peace?

Designing Peace, Cooper Hewitt, 2022

The front cover of Liu Ye: The Book Paintings, featuring a painting of a red hard cover book with base fore edge visible, creating a vision of a kind of uncanny meta book, a book within a book

Liu Ye: The Book Paintings, David Zwirner, 2021

Identity system and website design & art direction for San Francisco-based interior design studio Chroma

Website, Chroma, 2021 (with Marie Otsuka)

“Dedication” by David Tomas Martinez: “Lately, I sleep / Most hours of the day, / Not because I'm depressed, / but so as not to give up on my dreams”

Dedication, Poetry Society of America, 2021

Books Are Still Open, London Centre for Book Arts, 2021

Books Are Still Open, LCBA, 2021

Recent book design

Recent book design projects, 2019–20

Art Design Chicago

Art Design Chicago, 2018

Ways of Hearing

Ways of Hearing, MIT Press, 2019

Pop Culture Colour Theory RISD 2019

Pop Culture Colour Theory, RISD, 2019

Otobong Nkanga: From Where I Stand

Otobong Nkanga, Tate, 2019

Boot Boyz Biz, Cybernetic Serendipities

Boot Boyz Biz, Cybernetic Serendipities, 2019

Moiré Workshop, 2011–ongoing

Moiré Workshop, 2011–ongoing

Jeanne Gang: Mining the City, Berlin Family Lectures, University of Chicago, 2018

Jeanne Gang, Mining the City, 2018

Kerry James Marshall: Mastry, Skira Rizzoli, 2016

Kerry James Marshall: Mastry, Rizzoli, 2016

Pop Culture Colour Theory, Art Institute of Chicago, 2017

Pop Culture Colour Theory, 2018

Studio Gang website, 2015

Studio Gang Architects, 2016

Two Markets, RISD, 2019 (with AD-WO)

Flat Out magazine issues 1 and 2

Flat Out, 2016–ongoing

Flat Out magazine issues 3 and 4

Flat Out, 2016–ongoing

André Jolles, Simple Forms, Verso, 2017

Simple Forms, Verso, 2017

Tutti a Tavola!

Tutti a Tavola!, Milan, 2010

Website, David Kohn Architects, 2015

David Kohn Architects, 2015

Terra Foundation Essays

Terra Foundation Essays, 2016–ongoing

IIT Architecture Chicago Spring 2014

IIT Architecture, 2014

Prismaset, Lineto, 2016

Sam Prekop, The Republic, 2015

Sam Prekop, The Republic, Thrill Jockey, 2015

Image, Building, Object

Image, Building, Object, 2013

Ettore Sottsass and the Poetry of Things, Phaidon, 2015

Ettore Sottsass and the Poetry of Things, 2015

Typesetting for artist Nathan Coley

Typography for Nathan Coley, 2006–ongoing

Pastoral Warning Sign

Pastoral Warning Sign, 2015

Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster: TH.2058, Tate Modern, 2008

Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Tate, 2008

Seasonal programme booklets, Tate St Ives, 2008–2010

Seasonal booklets, Tate St Ives, 2008–2010

The Way of the Shovel: On the Archaeological Imaginary in Art, MCA Chicago

The Way of the Shovel, MCA Chicago, 2013

No Ban No Wall, 2017

No Ban No Wall, protest poster, 2017

MCA Monographs, MCA Chicago, 2011–13

Christopher Raeburn, identity, 2009

Christopher Raeburn, identity, 2009

Olafur Eliasson: The Weather Project, Tate Modern, 2003

Olafur Eliasson, Tate Modern, 2003

Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec: Bivouac, invitation, MCA Chicago, 2012

Bouroullec: Bivouac, MCA Chicago, 2012

Moiré, Chaumont, 2012 (with Jürg Lehni)

This Will Have Been, MCA Chicago, 2012

This Will Have Been, MCA Chicago, 2012

This Will Have Been: Art, Love & Politics in the 1980s, MCA Chicago, 2012

This Will Have Been, MCA Chicago, 2012

Rand tote, 2014 (with David Hartt)

Rands tote, 2014 (with David Hartt)

The Wire magazine, 2005–2007

The Wire magazine, 2005–2007

Robin Hood Gardens: Re-Visions, Twentieth Century Society, London, 2010

Robin Hood Gardens, C20 Society, 2010

Read It and Weep

News International, Auckland, 2011

File Notes, Camden Arts Centre, London, 2004—ongoing

File Notes, Camden Arts Centre, 2004—

Liz Magor: BLOWOUT, Renaissance Society, 2019

Liz Magor, Renaissance Society, 2019

Peace on Earth, 2015 (with Beatrix Goggin)