Rebecca Leffell Koren is a graphic designer and educator with a practice grounded in type-driven publication, exhibition, and systems design.
WHEREAS HOOPS(6×8.75 in, 54pp) Artist book created with John Early and Noah Cohan for their activist effort Whereas Hoops. Whereas Hoops calls our attention to the lack of basketball courts in Forest Park, linking it to the complex history of racial relations in St. Louis and the veil of prejudice that overlays the relationship of the city and the sport of basketball.
Humans of saint louis(8.25×10 in, 544pp) Humans of St. Louis is a 544-page photography book that, with nuance and care, captures the beauty and complexity of life in St. Louis through portraits and narratives from its citizens. The book employs a textured typographic palette, referential to the rich vernacular typographic history of St. Louis' industrial past, as well as it being the location of notable type foundries active in the 19th and 20th centuries. The typographic voice brings a visual rhythm that reinforces the diversity of the people within the pages of the book. Front and back inserts are printed in a two-color run that correlates warm red to the prominence of brick, and blue to the city's place along the Mississippi river. Photographic collage sequences guide the reader into the book through the architectural texture and landscape of the city as an entry point to meeting its inhabitants.
Designed with Audra Hubbell.
HERE AND NEXT(7.5×10.5 in, 126pp) Annual report for the Washington University in St. Louis ten-year strategic plan, Here and Next. The book features faculty and staff profiles, bolstered by the year’s project milestones, to brings a human-centered approach to the collaboration, planning and implementation of the university’s ambitious goals.
Designed with Audra Hubbell.
MFA VIEWBOOK(6×9in, 128pp)2 editions, 2017 and 2019 Viewbook for the MFA in Visual Arts program at the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis.
Forging Ahead(17×24 cm, 204pp)Bilingual, Hebrew and English Bilingual exhibition catalogue for the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, for an exhibition featuring Israeli silversmiths David Heinz Gumbel and Ludwig Yehuda Wolpert and their Bauhaus-informed modernist style Judaica. Photographs by Elie Posner.
Color Gone Wild (19×26 cm, 136pp)Bilingual, Hebrew and English Exhibition catalogue for The Israel Museum, Jerusalem.
Photographs by Elie Posner.
KELLER EASTERLING LECTURE POSTER Series of 2, flat and folded Set of posters for the Rhode Island School of Design.
1912 STRIKES / GREVE DE 1912 EXHIBITIONBilingual, French and English Bilingual exhibition design for the Museum of Jewish Montreal, French and English. The exhaustively researched exhibition details the history of the Museum site, the Vineberg Building, which housed a garment manufacturing factory in early 20th century Montreal. Included are first-hand accounts from factory workers, archival newspaper clippings, and original research and maps.