Designing Digital Publications, with Andrew LeClair

May 25th, 2021

Designer Andrew LeClair shares the unique perspective that he brings to digital publications and museum publishing workflows. He shares his work on the online publications In Terms of Performance and A Steady Pulse: Restaging Lucinda Childs, 1963-1978 for the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage and Altered States: Etching in Late 19th-Century Paris for the RISD Museum, all of which reveal a deep interconnection between content and the possibilities of design in a digital space. He also shares his work with E Roon Kang on 908A, a research initiative that focuses on constructing new algorithmic design tools in partnership with museums. Projects and prototypes underway include new workflows for generating printed materials (labels, large-print brochures, etc.) pulling directly from collections data, and initial research on generating book-length publications directly from website content.