Perform—Produce investigates design labor, value, tools, and the body, presenting original essays, visual research, and interviews with performance artist, Bridget Moser; designer and educator, J. Dakota Brown; artist and curator, Micah Lexier; and legendary designer and educator, Doug Scott. 

Defining graphic design as a discipline rooted in work rather than a process that springs forth spontaneously from the creative imagination, the publication is driven by strict constraints and machine-like craft, employing outdated tools and the physical body in processes of making that are stubbornly slow. The project also uses performance to explore the otherwise invisible labor of design and its valuation.

Set entirely in one typeface and one type size only, the design uses negative space strategically to create order and hierarchy throughout the publication. 

Published and designed by Rebecca Wilkinson
First edition, 2024

A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for an MFA degree in Graphic Design from the Rhode Island School of Design

Softcover, [250] pages, 1-color printing on colored paper, 8.6 × 11.75 inches