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Book design and production
with Elizabeth Karp-Evans
Sunday, March 23 - 2pm ET
What you’ll learn
In this 1-hour session, designer and publisher Elizabeth Karp-Evans demystifies book production. By the end of the session, you’ll understand key factors to consider when:
- Identifying design and production collaborators for your art book or self-published book.
- Building a budget for your book.
- Building a timeline for your book, considering printing and shipping.
About Elizabeth Karp-Evans
Photo: Ned Rogers
Image description: A black and white headshot of Elizabeth with a serene expression and wearing a striped button down. Her left hand is curled and rests on her cheek and her dark hair is brushed to the same side.
Image description: A black and white headshot of Elizabeth with a serene expression and wearing a striped button down. Her left hand is curled and rests on her cheek and her dark hair is brushed to the same side.
Elizabeth Karp-Evans is a writer, editor, designer and founding partner and director of Pacific. She was born in Portland, Oregon and lived in Los Angeles before moving to New York where she has worked in the arts and culture sector for two decades creating strategy, branding and publications for global clients including BMW, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, A24, and Fondation Cartier.
Storytelling, identity and plurality are at the core of her work in both strategic thinking and graphic design. She is deeply passionate about using language as a tool for communication and as a graphic gesture. With Pacific, Elizabeth has created visual identities for several major cultural institutions including The Kitchen and the Studio Museum in Harlem.
As a publication designer and publisher, she has created books for the artists Marina Adams, Alvaro Barrington, Jordan Casteel, Barbara Chase-Riboud, Judy Chicago, Maren Hassinger, E. Jane, Rick Lowe, Servane Mary, Meleko Mokgosi, Senga Nengudi, Toyin Ojih Odutola, Tschabalala Self, Rose B. Simpson, and Kara Walker, amongst others.
Elizabeth serves on the Board of Directors of the New-York nonprofit Artists and Mothers and is the recipient of Meta’s Black Visionaries Grant and a Rauschenberg Residency Fellow. She is the former Director of Media, Communications and Content at the Studio Museum in Harlem, where she worked for nearly a decade. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from The New School for Social Research (now The New School of Public Engagement) and a BA in English Literature and minor in Screenwriting from Loyola Marymount University.