People who actually make the things.
Our speakers run journals, design books, edit reportage, and print the work themselves. Some are well-known in their corners of the field; some are doing the most interesting work you haven't heard of yet.
The roster is intentionally small. We'd rather have a dozen people we can host properly than fifty squeezed into ten-minute lightning talks.
This year's roster.
Listed alphabetically. Bios are short on purpose; the longer conversation is the point of the conference.
David Okafor
Production Lead, Common Press
Leads production at a worker-owned printing cooperative in Brooklyn. Specialist in short-run offset.
Hiroshi Tanaka
Publisher, Nine Volumes
Publisher of a Tokyo-based imprint working at the intersection of fiction and design. Past work has been shown at the Tokyo Art Book Fair.
Ines Vautrin
Designer, Atelier 6
Independent book designer based in Marseille. AIGA 50 Books / 50 Covers selection, three times.
Lena Park
Editor, Quarterly Review
Editor of a regional quarterly out of Portland, Oregon, focused on architecture and labor history.
Marcus Howell
Founder, Press Three
Founder of a small art-book press in Glasgow specializing in long-form photo essays.
Suzanne Reilly
Editor-in-Chief, Slow Field
Editor of a journal of essays and reportage on rural North America. Previously at Harper's.
