We advance institutions and people in the arts by translating their ideas into books and identities that create a lasting legacy and reputation.

Studio

Founded in Brooklyn, Luminosity Lab is led by creative Caleb Cain Marcus, whose projects include Museum of the City of New York’s inaugural triennial catalogue and Brown University’s Carrie Mae Weems: Varying Shades of Brown, hailed in Cent Magazine as, “a sculptural object—proving that books still push boundaries in a screen-dominated era.” Caleb received his MFA from Columbia University and has work in the collections of the Getty and Metropolitan Museum of Art.

With a distinct experience in book design and production, we find beauty arises from a response to the content that is led by strong ideas, typography, and attention to the book as a sculptural object.

We focus on ongoing partnerships with museums, galleries, publishers, curators and artists. We believe design flourishes with collaboration and open and diverse thought and dialogue. We’re curious and inquisitive researchers of information from the poetic to typographic.

Founded in Brooklyn, Luminosity Lab is led by creative Caleb Cain Marcus, whose projects include Museum of the City of New York’s inaugural triennial catalogue and Brown University’s Carrie Mae Weems: Varying Shades of Brown, hailed in Cent Magazine as, “a sculptural object—proving that books still push boundaries in a screen-dominated era.” Caleb received his MFA from Columbia University and has work in the collections of the Getty and Metropolitan Museum of Art.

With a distinct experience in book design and production, we find beauty arises from a response to the content that is led by strong ideas, typography, and attention to the book as a sculptural object.

We focus on ongoing partnerships with museums, galleries, publishers, curators and artists. We believe design flourishes with collaboration and open and diverse thought and dialogue. We’re curious and inquisitive researchers of information from the poetic to typographic.

Talks

2024
International Center of Photography
Griffin Museum
School of Visual Art

2023
LA Center of Photography
For Freedoms
School of Visual Art
Griffin Museum
Aurora Photo Center

Awards

Our studio’s design excellence and innovation has been recognized by the Art Directors Club, AIGA, Red Dot Design Award, Communication Arts and Tokyo Type Directors Club.

Awards by year
2024
Art Directors Club New York, Merit
Art Directors Club New York, Merit
Communication Arts, Winner
Communication Arts, Shortlist
Tokyo Type Directors Club, Excellent Work
 
2023
Art Directors Club New York, Silver Cube
AIGA 50 books | 50 covers, Winner
Society of Typographic Arts, Winner
Tokyo Type Directors Club, Excellent Work
Red Dot Design Award, Winner
Communication Arts, Shortlist
Art Directors Club New York, Shortlist
Kraszna-Krausz Book Awards, Shortlist
Rencontre d’Arles Book Awards, Shortlist

Some Collaborators

Museums and Galleries
Brown University
Museum of the City of New York
Museum of Contemporary Photography
Staten Island Museum

National Academy of Sciences
Quantum Art
ClampArt

Publishers
Damiani
Fall Line Press
Hatje Cantz
Kehrer
KGP 
Saint Lucy Books
Schilt Publishing
Workshop Arts
Yoffy Press 

Curators
Asha Iman Veal
Gabriella Leone
Karen Irvine
Kate Kraczon
Nicole R. Fleetwood
Rylee Eterginoso
Sean Corcoran
Thea Quiray Tagle

Artists
Carrie Mae Weems
Jon Henry
Justin Aversano
Kris Graves
Nydia Blas
Stanley Greenberg
Stephen Shames

Book Collections

MoMA
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Getty Research Institute
SF MOMA
MIT
Columbia University
Harvard University
Stanford University 
Princeton University
Yale University

Let's make something amazing together. 

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