A Portrait of Tottenham, London

                                                        Desk Frontal, Haringey Library                                                                                      2007 A Portrait of Tottenham ­ Diversity and Language

   Tottenham is the most multi-cultural constituency in Europe with 273 different languages spoken.  This aim of this project, done in collaboration with Haringey Council, was to directly reflect this diversity in a way that would be meaningful to all its inhabitants.  Nicola researched hundreds of different languages spoken in Tottenham.  She held a series of silkscreen printing workshops held in Haringey libraries, based around printing the word 'book' in these different languages.  She worked with bag designer Juliet Thornback and the final image that Nicola designed was hand printed onto bags for Haringey Library users to keep their own books in.  A desk frontal was made using this design for Wood Green Library and more workshops were subsequently held for participants to design their own bags, inspired by this project.