Rudy Weissenberg

Exhibited at DESIGN MIAMI. 2023 Created exclusively for the The Book of Love fundraiser for the Books & Books Literary Foundation, this limited-edition print features Rudy Weissenberg’s original artwork celebrating To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, one of hundreds of beloved titles subject to recent book bans and challenges.
According to Weissenberg: “The image is a re-composition of birds—in this case a mockingbird, a central theme of the novel by Harper Lee. Deconstructing, manipulating, and repeating fragments of bird images from 17th-century color prints, the aim was to create a colorful and textural tapestry celebrating the importance and complexity of these flying vertebrates.” All proceeds benefit the Books & Books Literary Foundation’s urgent fight for the right to read.  About AGO Projects: AGO Projects is a design-driven practice and designer representation space started by Rudy F. Weissenberg and Rodman Primack. Based in the energizing creative capitals of Mexico City and New York, AGO Projects is committed to incubating and promoting exceptional design voices. We work together with artists and designers to realize personal projects of various scales while actively enhancing international alliances and opportunities. We believe in the power of good design as an agent of positive transformation. We encourage the handmade and support artists and designers with a heightened level of social and environmental consciousness that strives for a more equitable society. About To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee: Voted America's Best-Loved Novel in PBS's The Great American Read • Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterwork of honor and injustice in the deep South—and the heroism of one man in the face of blind and violent hatred. One of the most cherished stories of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird has been translated into more than forty languages, sold more than forty million copies worldwide, served as the basis for an enormously popular motion picture, and was voted one of the best novels of the twentieth century by librarians across the country. A gripping, heart-wrenching, and wholly remarkable tale of coming-of-age in a South poisoned by virulent prejudice, it views a world of great beauty and savage inequities through the eyes of a young girl, as her father—a crusading local lawyer—risks everything to defend a black man unjustly accused of a terrible crime.