A reflection on the practice of designer, graphic artist, and publisher Manuel Raeder.
Reading Until I Sleep reflects on the work of designer and publisher Manuel Raeder. His practice unfolds between readers and books, artists and places, bodies and infrastructures, materials and memories, working with objects that bear their histories openly and resist disposability by insisting on the ongoing life of things. The essay brings multiple perspectives into contact with the inequities that determine who can work, rest, make, and be seen; within this landscape, Raeder's practice, like reading and sleep, becomes an act of resistance, an interval that reopens the possibility of relation, autonomy, and care. Across two decades he has developed a distinctive body of work spanning books, furniture, textiles, exhibitions, and long-term collaborations, founding Studio Manuel Raeder and remaining co-founder of BOM DIA BOA TARDE BOA NOITE, which continues as a collaborative team based in his Berlin studio.
Faire is a bi-monthly magazine dedicated to graphic design, published from October to June, distributed issue by issue or in the form of anthologies of three or four issues. Created by Empire, Syndicat studio's publishing house, Faire is aimed for undergraduate students as well as researchers and professionals, documenting contemporary and international practices of graphic design, along with the history and grammar of styles. Each issue focuses on a single subject, addressed by a renowned author. Adopting an analytical and critical posture with regard to the forms and activities of graphic design, editors Sacha Léopold and François Havegeer have been running this print magazine since 2018, working with a growing list of authors (Mathias Augustyniak, Stuart Bertolotti-Bailey, Lise Brosseau, Manon Bruet, Thierry Chancogne, Céline Chazalviel, Jérôme Dupeyrat, Aude Fellay, Catherine Guiral, Étienne Hervy, James Langdon, Olivier Lebrun, Victoire Le Bars, Alexandra Midal, Camille Pageard, Remi Parcollet, Sonia de Puineuf, Simon Renaud, Benjamin Thorel, Rica Cerbarano...), resulting in unique and varied topics and writing styles.
Graphic designer Manuel Raeder (born in 1977) lives and works in Berlin. He studied at the London College of Printing and has completed a post-graduate at the Jan van Eyck Akademie in Maastricht. His main focus lies in close collaborations with artists, designers, curators, theorists and musicians. His work has a wide range of formats from exhibitions, publications, type design to furniture design. Manuel Raeder has held workshops in various instituions (Ecole nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, Hochschule für bildende Künste, Hamburg...).
Manuel Raeder is the co-founder of Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite, a publishing house specialized in high quality artists' books.
