On Thursday 8 August at 6.30 pm, we kindly invite you to join us in the CAC Reading Room for the third event of our series The Graphic Design Archives, which will be hosted on this occasion by Nerijus Rimkus.

Many people visit the CAC Reading Room to absorb knowledge from a diverse range of books. However, what often goes unnoticed are those who come to appreciate design elements such as book covers, text layouts, design solutions, binding methods, and more.

The collection of books in the CAC Reading Room is not only a valuable repository of knowledge but also a versatile archive of graphic design artefacts. To honour and showcase the work of these designers, the CAC Reading Room initiated the event series The Graphic Design Archives. The series aims to bring together a community of practitioners by inviting them to talk about their experiences and show work in progress to a broader audience. While many of us are familiar with a designer’s finished products, such as the posters in our towns and cities, exhibition identities, or publication typesetting, The Graphic Design Archives series seeks to shed light on what often remains unseen or unspoken about – the creative process, experimentation, and, of course, the inevitable failures.

The third event of The Graphic Design Archives series, titled “Speaking Nearby” will be hosted by Nerijus Rimkus. To talk about a certain way of working that is hard to ascribe to a single field or practice, he has collected things, thoughts and gestures over the past years that help him to understand his own way of working and his interest in design. The closest, most accurate term to describe this collection could be “neither”, which simultaneously is a good term to describe his own position as a maker. He will present this archive and talk about some of the cases, in parallel to his own work.

 

NERIJUS RIMKUS lives and works between Amsterdam (NL) and Marijampolė (LT). He studied at Werkplaats Typografie in Arnhem and the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam. Currently he is a phd student at Vilnius Academy of Arts, and works on both commissioned and self-initiated projects.

 

A clock designed by Nerijus for the occasion will be hanging in the library for the duration of at least a month, following the presentation.

The event will be held in English and is free to attend.