Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind surveys the groundbreaking and multidisciplinary career of Ono – from her early work with the Fluxus movement, to her activism, music and more recent installations. We designed the catalogue to accompany the exhibition at Tate, bringing together a wide range of material from Ono’s expansive career, including documentary photography, film stills, ephemeral and song lyrics.
In the spirit of Ono’s conceptual use of language, the book’s narrative is interspersed with artist interventions, such as end pages that read ‘YES’ and ‘DREAM’ and a section recreating the work ‘PEACE is POWER’. The publication’s smaller format was chosen as a reflection of the intimate nature of many of Ono’s works and as a nod to one of her most famous artist books Grapefruit. The layout designs are inspired by the artist’s early works on paper and exhibition invites, using a headline, grotesque condensed typeface in reference to the artist’s well-known poster series War Is Over.
