Overview

Office of Luke Bulman is a graphic design practice where architecture and graphic design overlap — architecture provides our framework, graphic design our method.

The book is the root of our practice. Books have shaped how we expect information to unfold in space. The front-to-back progression of a book creates our expectations for directional flow in buildings—we experience spaces with frontality, focused direction, and organized sequences, like moving through chapters. This is the base condition, a clear structure, necessary for practical reasons. 

But books are also flexible, open to many different routes—one can skip ahead, reference back, start from the index, or follow footnotes on tangents. This parallels how users make their way through buildings, where our work is to form the primary navigation patterns, but we also need to develop a variety of routes to address different conditions and experiences that are driven by individual and collective needs and interests.

These overlaps between book space and architectural space begin to mark out how our practice has evolved to address these experiences, where what we design in one medium may serve to inform the other.

In turn, we work on both public and private projects to find new ways to connect objects and ideas. Every project has a specific goal that calls for particular ways of engaging with people. We are here to ask how mobile the project needs to be, when and how easily it can change, how widely it can be shared or experienced, how collaborative it is, or how accessible it needs to be. The overlap of these conditions is where we can find the project, its form, its use, and its vitality.

We're especially interested in projects where we can be involved from initial concept all the way to the final experience by the public. This form of engagement offers a level of coordination between our collaborators and craftspeople that helps us keep the project aligned with its message, content, material, fabrication, and delivery from start to finish.

Above all, our practice is about finding ways to connect ideas with tangible things.

Contact

254 36th Street
Suite 527
Brooklyn, New York 11232
United States

Telephone +1 917 495 3435

office at lukebulman.com