Book Artist and Designer Ben Denzer Visits Stamps
Ben Denzer, an artist, designer, and publisher focused on exploring the book as an object, will visit Stamps and the University of Michigan on Wednesday, February 11.
Denzer will give a talk and workshop as part of Visualizing + Depicting Ideas (ART270), as well as a public workshop that will take place from 5 – 7 pm in the Shapiro Library.
Build “Physical Typography” with book artist Ben Denzer
Wednesday, February 11, 5 – 7 PM
Shapiro Library PIE Space (back of the first floor)
Registration Required
Come explore physical typography with various tools & materials with Ben Denzer! We will be constructing the words to a typographic essay using expected tools (brushes, crayons, markers, etc) and unexpected tools (shaving cream, pasta, string, etc). In the process, we’ll explore how the tools we use shape the graphic forms we are able to create.
Artist Ben Denzer is no stranger to creating with unconventional materials: he’s the person behind the U‑M library’s legendary “cheese book,” made of slices of Kraft American cheese singles, as well as other volumes made of meat and ketchup.
Denzer is an Assistant Professor at Parsons and has taught courses and workshops at SVA, RISD, Princeton, UArts, and Center for Book Arts. Along with his studio practice, Denzer designs and publishes books under the imprint Catalog Press and is a frequent visual contributor to The New York Times. He has also worked as a book cover designer within the Penguin Art Group, and he ran the Instagram @ice_cream_books (praised by Bella Hadid as “the most important Instagram out there today”). His work has been collected by The Met, The Guggenheim, The Museum of Fine Arts Houston, and the University of Oxford among other institutions, and recognized by the Type Directors Club, the Art Directors Club, Young Guns 16, the Society of Illustrators, the Society of Publication Designers, The Society for News Design, AIGA, BIGNY, AI-AP, PRINT Magazine and The New York Times.
This visit is supported by the Witt Short Term Visiting Artist Program, the Arts Initiative, and the Book Arts Studio in the Duderstadt Center.