Jesse Ash
Avoidance-Avoidance
Book, 170 × 240 mm, 208pp
Design by Ben Weaver Studio
Published by Sternberg Press
2021

Jesse Ash’s multifaceted project moves between theatre, painting, sculpture and film to address strategies of concealment and disclosure. To illustrate how the work develops between exhibitions in different cities over a three year period, the book combines different iterations of the project’s script with rehearsal and performance documentation and artwork at various stages (from research through to installation in various sites across the world). The artist’s working process is made as transparent as possible, which reveals the inherent complexities involved in a body of work with recurring but continually evolving components.

Simon Roberts
Merrie Albion

Book, 152pp, 282 x 340 mm
Hardback with two-tiered front cover
Design by Ben Weaver Studio
Published by Dewi Lewis Publishing
2017

simoncroberts.com
dewilewis.com

Jack Latham
Sugar Paper Theories

Book, 180pp, 310 x 230mm
Perfect bound paperback with cloth spine
Design by Ben Weaver
Co-published by Here Press & The Photographers Gallery
2016

Sugar Paper Theories explores the investigation of the supposed murder of two missing persons in Iceland in the 1970s and the conviction of 6 people based solely on their confessions. Jack Latham’s photographs are combined with material from the original police investigation files, a copy of the case files obtained by a conspiracy theorist and excerpts from a diary kept by one of the accused. This source material is reproduced using a variety of printing methods, paper types and sizes, and is sequenced to create a nightmarish, disorientating experience of the investigation. A written account of the case by Professor Gisli Gudjónsson CBE, a forensic psychologist whose expert testimony and theory of memory distrust syndrome are central to an ongoing inquiry, is integrated into the sequence.

Shortlisted for the 2016 Paris Photo-Aperture Foundation First PhotoBook Award

jacklatham.com

Julie Mehretu
Sextant

Catalogue, 82pp, 205 x 245mm
Softback with French folds
Design by Ben Weaver
Published by White Cube
2018

Sextant uses a combination of paper types to differentiate source material, references, documentation of work in progress, hand-written text by Anna Boghiguian and final artwork to create a catalogue that immerses the reader in the artist’s working practice.

whitecube.com

Julie Mehretu
Grey Paintings

Catalogue, 172pp, 295 x 280mm
Hardback with cloth spine
Design by Ben Weaver
Published by Marian Goodman Gallery
2017

mariangoodman.com

The Wire
Covers

Art direction & design by Ben Weaver
Assisted by Patrick Ward & Mads Freund Brunse
2008–

A selection of covers for The Wire, an independent, monthly music magazine covering a wide range of alternative, underground and non-mainstream musics.

thewire.co.uk

Crofton Black & Edmund Clark
Negative Publicity
Artefacts of Extraordinary Rendition

Book, 292pp, 216 x 297 mm
Spiralbound hardback with cloth spine
Design by Ben Weaver Studio
Published by Aperture
2016

Photographs by Edmund Clark and a paper trail of documents assembled by counterterrorism investigator Crofton Black are interwoven in a complex structure in order to develop a new way to look at the nature of contemporary warfare and the invisible mechanisms of state control.

Winner of the Arles Photo-Text Book Award, 2016

edmundclark.com

Volume of Light

Website, poster and book for Thomas Brown
Project development & graphic design by Ben Weaver Studio
Website development by Ben de Silva

volumeoflight.com

Jono Rotman
Mongrelism

Book, 380pp, 200 x 252 mm
Hardback with tipped-in foiled panel on front cover
Design by Ben Weaver Studio
Co-published by Here Press and Images Vevey, Switzerland
2018

herepress.org
images.ch

Susan Meiselas
A View of a Room

Book, 80pp 120 x 160 mm
French fold dust jacket with flaps containing archival print and original unused response card from The Photographers’ Gallery
Design by Ben Weaver
Published by Here Press
2018

Susan Meiselas
A Room of Their Own

Book, 204pp, 178 x 230mm
Cloth-bound hardback
Design by Ben Weaver
Published by Multistory
2017

Francheska Melendez & Ben Roberts
Amuleto

Book, 200 x 297 mm, 44pp paperback
20 photographs by Ben Roberts
Text by Francheska Melendez
Published by Here Press
2021

At the start of the pandemic, notions of community were amplified through a shared experience of suffering. When a few weeks into the collective panic and isolation, a man was forcibly suffocated in Minnesota under the knee of a police officer, our support for each other was challenged.

For ‘Amuleto’ Ben Roberts photographed masks hanging from rear-view mirrors in an area that borders the Guadarrama Mountains, 50km north of Madrid. Francheska Melendez assembled the text using her own words and fragments of others’ voices gleaned from both private and public conversations.

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Ben Roberts
Occupied Spaces

Book, 28pp, 210 x 288 mm
Design by Ben Weaver
Published by Here Press
2012

Ben Roberts' photographs of spaces used in the Occupy London campaign are arranged with the peripheral tents on the outside and the core operational tents in the centre. The photographs wrap around four pages of text at the centre of the publication and the whole is held together with an elastic red cord.

Included in The Photobook: A History Volume III by Gerry Badger & Martin Parr

herepress.org

Julie Mehretu and Jessica Rankin
Earthfold

Folding book, 32pp + 8pp concertina, 240 x 170 mm
Designed by Ben Weaver
Published by Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens
2016

Earthfold combines images of Mehretu’s and Rankin’s working practice and influences with details of their work in their joint exhibition at Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens.

The book is made from one printed sheet which is cut and folded to create a publication whose ‘pages’ can be turned like a book but there is no binding.

2041

Book, 120pp + 6pp insert, 170 x 240 mm
Edited & designed by Lewis Chaplin & Ben Weaver
Published by Here Press
2014

2041 is an eponymous collection of self-portraits in which the image and identity of the artist remain concealed. Using the camera to articulate a passion he has secretly indulged for decades, he appears dozens of times in a variety of garments, but is always anonymous. 72 photographs were selected from thousands that the artist has made over several decades.

The project was initiated by Lewis Chaplin of Loose Joints, and was developed, edited and designed in collaboration with Ben Weaver.

herepress.org
loosejoints.biz

The Wire
Interior Pages

Art direction & design by Ben Weaver
Assisted by Patrick Ward, Mads Freund Brunse & Gareth Lindsay
2008–

A selection of interior pages for The Wire, an independent, monthly music magazine covering a wide range of alternative, underground and non-mainstream musics.

thewire.co.uk

Free

Graphic design by Ben Weaver & Sebastian Howell
Photo editing by Sam Ashley
Additional graphic intervention by James Jarvis
2015–

A selection of covers and interior pages of Free, a bi-monthly European skateboard magazine.

Roots Manuva

Art direction and design by Ben Weaver with Patrick Ward
Big Dada
2001

The Wire Tapper

CD covers
Art direction by Ben Weaver
2008–

The Wire Tapper is a series of CDs mounted to the cover of The Wire magazine. Artists are invited to work with the theme of 'code' without using photography, figurative illustration or well-known alphabetic systems.

thewire.co.uk/audio/the-wire-tapper

Edmund Clark
In Place of Hate

Catalogue, 80pp, 165 x 240 mm
Design by Ben Weaver Studio
Published by Ikon
2017

My Shadow's Reflection

Book 72pp, 245 x 300mm
Design by Ben Weaver Studio
Published by Here Press and Ikon
2017

Control Order House

Book, 128pp, 210 x 297 mm
Design by Ben Weaver
Published by Here Press
2013

edmundclark.com
herepress.org

The Wire
Commissioned photography and illustration

Art Direction by Ben Weaver
2008–

A selection of commissioned photography and illustration for The Wire, an independent, monthly music magazine covering a wide range of alternative, underground and non-mainstream musics.

thewire.co.uk

Jason Lazarus
Nirvana

Book, 32pp, 170 x 240 mm
Design by Ben Weaver
Published by Here Press
2013

The collected photographs and accompanying statements in Nirvana are answers to Jason Lazarus’ question: ‘Who introduced you to Nirvana?’

With the use of french folds, the photographs in this book are arranged in a continuous chain from the front through to the penultimate page. The collected statements are shown on the back.

jasonlazarus.com
herepress.org

Off the Page

A literary festival about sound and music
Co-produced by The Wire with various organisations
Designed by Ben Weaver Studio
2011–2015

The graphic identity for Off The Page relies on the consistent use of 2 dashes and a forward slash (a reductive representation of a turning page) in varying configurations, reproduced in black on coloured paper.

For the programme, delegates at the festival were invited to supply a piece of writing about sound or music that has inspired them. These are reproduced in their original form, edited where necessary with dashes or forward slashes.

Everything Was Moving

Barbican Art Gallery
Graphic design by Ben Weaver Studio
2013

Ben Weaver Studio worked in collaboration with the architects Carmody Groarke to produce the graphics for the photography exhibition Everything Was Moving, and designed the accompanying publicity and marketing material.

Shown here are the billboard, the entrance to the exhibition and the cover and a spread from the gallery guide.

Tara Darby

Ben Weaver has been working with the photographer Tara Darby since 2011. He has designed three self-published books, We Are Only Humans (2011) and The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter (2012) for her Miniature Love imprint, as well as her website (developed in collaboration with Third System) and other projects.

taradarby.com

Jessica Rankin

Ben Weaver has been designing catalogues for Jessica Rankin since her first White Cube exhibition in 2008. Recent catalogues include:

Dear Another
Book, 54pp, 230 x 305 mm
Published by Salon 94
2014

Skyfolds 1941–2010
Book, 80pp, 200 x 240 mm
Published by White Cube
2012

In 2016 he designed a folding book for Jessica and Julie Mehretu to accompany their joint exhibition Earthfold (Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, 2016). More details here

Looking Back to Tomorrow
Fifty Years of Public Arts Institutions

Book, 160pp, 148 x 210 mm
Design by Ben Weaver
Published by Camden Arts Centre
2017

Looking Back to Tomorrow is an illustrated reader charting the establishment and development of public arts institutions in the UK since the 1960s, comprising essays and transcripts from Camden Art Centre’s fiftieth anniversary lecture series.

Moyra Davey
I'm Your Fan

Book, 46pp, 145 x 205 mm
Design by Ben Weaver
Published by Camden Arts Centre / Camilla Wills
2014

I'm Your Fan is a collection of Moyra Davey’s essays and transcripts, interspersed with excerpts lifted directly from working notebooks.

Love Your Parasites (Baroque Edition)
Edited by Camilla Wills
2015
Published by Paraguay Press
Book design by Ben Weaver

Garden Museum

Graphic identity, publication and exhibition design by Ben Weaver Studio
2008–

In 2008, Sara de Bondt and Ben Weaver developed the graphic identity for the newly-refurbished Garden Museum in London. Since then Ben Weaver has designed a selection of exhibitions and journals with various designers. The format and design of the journals varies depending on the content but the size remains constant: always A5.

Collaborators include: Michael Marriott (exhibition design), Xavier Antin, Laura Silke and Lola Halifa-Legrand.

Just Not Cricket!

Programme and poster
Art direction and design by Ben Weaver
Photography by Tara Darby
2011

Each participant in this festival of improvised music was assigned an appropriate building tool or material to represent each of the instruments they were playing (drum = bucket, bass = cement, saxophone = pipe, etc.). Each collaboration in the 3-day schedule was then illustrated with a combination of the relevant instruments.

Tom Hunter

Ben Weaver has been designing publications for Tom Hunter since his first book for Hatje Cantz in 2001. Recent publications include:

Where Have All The Flowers Gone
Book, 48pp with 8 panel cover, 170 x 250 mm
Published by Hartmaan Books
2019

Home
Book, 38pp, 150 x 210 mm
Published by University of the Arts London
2013

Le Crowbar
Book, 96pp, 270 x 210 mm
Published by Here Press
2013

The Way Home
Book, 200pp, 260 x 305 mm
Published by Hatje Cantz
2011