The relationship between designers and printers is at the core of any book or physical ephemera project. This free online digital workshop pairs leading international printers with designers to present case studies of new technology, collaborative practices, and ways of thinking about what can be achieved with physical print.
This workshop will be led by Laura Coombs, Jeff Khonsary and Steven Rodríguez.
Co-presented by the Walker Art Center and AIGA Minnesota.
Bios
Laura Coombs is a graphic designer in New York, creating visual identities, editorial projects, and exhibitions. Collaborations with cultural institutions, artists, and architects include the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New Museum of Contemporary Art, Rhizome, Carnegie Museum of Art, Asia Society, MIT Press, Park Books, Verso Books, Columbia Books on Architecture and the City, New York Review of Architecture, and MILLIØNS Architects. Laura teaches graphic design at Cooper Union, Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), and Princeton University.
Jeff Khonsary is a Los Angeles–based editor, curator, and designer. He is Artistic Director and cofounder of Fillip, a Vancouver-based contemporary art publishing organization, and Director and founder of New Documents, a book imprint focusing on books by artists. He also runs the design studio Document Services, based in Los Angeles. Khonsary has co-organized several international conferences and public art commissions, including Judgment and Contemporary Art Criticism (with Melanie O’Brian, 2009) and Institutions by Artists (with Kristina Lee Podesva and Lorna Brown, 2012)—both with accompanying anthologies published by Fillip—as well as Mark Manders: Window with Fake Newspaper (2010) and Kathleen Ritter: Gaslight (2020). Recent collaborations include projects with Lucy R. Lippard, Maria Fusco, and Pope.L. In 2018 he cofounded Acid-Free, and has co-organized the annual Acid-Free Los Angeles Art Book Market. Since 2020, Khonsary has worked as a Print Consultant for Die Keure Printing in Bruges, Belgium.
Graphic designer Steven Rodriguez is founder of the Mexico-based printing company Nocaut and principal of Studio Iguana. Since 2021 Nocaut has provided offset printing, fulfillment, and distribution to clients in North America and internationally for books, magazines, and other publishing projects, offering specialized services to both expert and emerging designers and small publishers alike. Studio Iguana functions as the design arm for the printing company. In 2025 Nocaut and Studio Iguana launched the first issue of Cynthia, a widely distributed bilingual magazine examining the explosively popular music genre Música Regional Mexicana. Rodriguez holds an MFA from the Yale School of Art, and has taught graphic design at Universidad de Monterrey, San Pedro Garza García, Mexico, and Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles.
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