Ryan Waller is a partner at Other Means, a Brooklyn-based graphic design studio working with architects, artists, curators, editors, institutions, and schools.
The Serving Library Annual comprises a number of individual ”bulletins” organized around a theme for an international audience of designers, artists, writers, and researchers. This year’s collection explores how translation is fast becoming a significant site for the negotiation of identities and power dynamics in an increasingly Anglocentric cultural scene. Although departing from literature and the visual arts, the issue soon veers off into mathematics, music, architecture, religion, and more. The Serving Library Annual 2018/19 is guest co-edited by Italian novelist and translator Vincenzo Latronico and it features contributions by Meehan Crist, Katrina Dodson, Lucile Dupraz, Claudia Durastanti, Joseph Grigely,…