An Evening With Ninan Joseph — Dissolve

Ninan Joseph is the founder of Dissolve, a Bangalore-based design studio working at the intersection of books, identity, and ideas. His practice is quietly distinctive — rooted in the belief that design is most powerful when it serves something larger than aesthetics.

This evening is about book design — specifically the decisions that make a book work as an object, not just a container for text. How paper, typography, structure, and print come together to shape how a reader experiences what's inside. Three projects. Two that came together the way he intended. One that taught him something he couldn't have learned any other way.

A talk followed by an open Q&A. Ninan walks through three book design projects in detail — the brief, the structural decisions, the paper choices, and what the printing process revealed. Specific, honest, and grounded in real work.

• Talk and Q&A with Ninan Joseph
• A hand-selected set of paper samples curated by Ninan — his personal recommendations for book design, with a note on what each paper is best used for

Designers, publishers, design students, and anyone curious about what it takes to make a book that holds together as a physical object. No prior knowledge required.

Ninan Joseph is the founder of Dissolve, a design studio based in Bangalore specialising in book design, identity, and user interface design. His work is driven by an interest in the role design plays at the intersection of social organisation and ideas.