Readability as a primary goal of book design looks into fonts as well as production considerations, and results in a book that looks timeless and neutral or reflect its contents. The sensory aspect of a book’s design can provide traction to the reader’s experience of the object, even a challenge to it, so that the movement from data to information to knowledge happens.

Join us on Saturday, 12 August, at the FIRST | Coworking Community, Rm 502 & 506, First United Bldg, 413 Escolta St, Binondo, Manila for a talk with Baby Imperial of B+C Design. The talk is free and open to the public as part of the public programs for The Library of Unread Books.

The Library of Unread Books by Heman Chong and Renee Staal is an exhibition made up of donated books that are unread by their previous owners. By receiving and revealing that which people choose not to read, the Library is the result of a collective gesture that traces the perimeters of unwanted knowledge. This is the first run of MCAD Commons, a project that seeks to continue expanding activities of the museum and bringing MCAD’s singular programming to a larger audience to allow for the engagement with creative development, ideas exchange, and support of the artistic process across the areas of research, art practice, and curatorial discourse.

Baby Imperial is one half of Communications and Design Practice, B+C. They explore the intersection of communications, design and the visual arts, combining their capabilities in 2, 3 and 4-dimensional spheres of design and art. Their work as theater set, book and exhibition/graphic designers has received awards and nominations for awards.