Throughout 2023, artist and graphic designer Rose Nordin (UK) was one of our Publishers-in-Residence.
Through her practice and research, Rose is interested in the publication as a site of exchange and collaboration, print technologies as tools for union, and letterforms as modes of magic. The residency at PrintRoom was marked by three projects, spread over time.
In April, we invited a group of publishing friends to join us at the archive of the Institute of Social History (ISSG) in Amsterdam, for a new edition of our project Holiday in the Archive. Rose was one of the participants that conducted research in the archive.
During the Books Are Bridges Publishing Summit, in July 2023, Rose was part of the curatorial team of the public programme of talks, and a participant in the Fabulous Art Book Fest. During several days, at PrintRoom and the SNV community gardens, she contributed to conversations and workshops about collective publishing practices and printmaking.
For PrintRoom’s Leesmap, Rose conceptualised, gathered and designed the publication Printing Plates: Books for Bread, a zine about baking bread in times of siege. She also developed a special edition, bound in bread bags, of which the proceeds go to Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP). The Leesmap is launched on the 16th of December in a public event and artist presentation at PrintRoom.
Recently, Rose was an artist-in-residence at Somerset House Studios London and Jan Van Eyck Academie Maastricht, where she developed work on the divine qualities of printed letterforms and alphabets under the project title: The talisman of the written word and the talking leaves. As a designer, Rose primarily makes artist books and printed matter. This extends to exhibition and custom type design.
