Ockham Lecture with international guest Evi O. – The Seventh Side of a Book

Join us at Objectspace for an Ockham Lecture with international guest Evi O. ahead of the 2026 Object Book Fair.

Evi O. – book designer, artist and publisher – has roamed the various publishing spheres for over 15 years and will share her philosophy of book design, her “investigations of the popular mass and notorious radicals and the mystery of a book’s seventh side that makes this form invincible.”

She says “the physical book form is an enduring human invention. It has democratised access to information and circulated knowledge, history, stories and culture across time and space. Critically utilised as a catalyst for social, cultural and political change, the form has also been capitalised by the commercial publishing industry.”

This lecture will take place in the gallery, spaces are limited.

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Evi O. was born in 1986 in Surabaya, Indonesia and moved to Sydney, Australia in October 2003. She obtained a degree in visual communication (honours) from the University of Technology, Sydney and worked for Penguin Books Australia until 2016. Since 2017, she has been practicing graphic design – specialising in publication design – under her studio EOS (Evi-O.Studio), based in Gadigal Country (Redfern, Sydney), servicing the world. Evi O. is also a practicing artist and an art and design publisher, producing books under her imprint Formist Editions. In her rare spare time, she walks nature and of course, make books about it.

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The Ockham Lecture series is an annual programme of lectures and panel discussions across different themes that critically engage with craft, design and architecture. This programme is supported by Objectspace's Lead Partner Ockham Residential.

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