
















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

















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


























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







































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.








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










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





















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




















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









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.

























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.















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.





















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









































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.







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.










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.

















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
Ben Weaver Studio
Unit 13, 18-24 Shacklewell Lane
London E8 2EZ
+44 7968 030384
ben(at)benweaver(dot)eu
Ben Weaver is a graphic designer and art director. He established a studio in London in 2001. He has been art director of The Wire magazine since 2008, and in 2011 he co-founded Here Press, a publishing house focusing on documentary photography.
Current & previous studio associates:
Thomas Adank
Mads Freund Brunse
Adam Cheltsov
Sara de Bondt
Benedict de Silva
Ben Drury
Ben Greehy
Amy Gwatkin
Gareth Lindsay
Laura Silke
Patrick Ward
Sam White
Sandra Zellmer
Website development:
Benedict de Silva