With Guest: Mariam Adesokan is a multidisciplinary designer and researcher. Under the umbrella of design and research, Mariam uses archives, contemporary art, librarianship and spatial practice to express as much of her inner dialogue as possible. Mariam’s most recent project takes form as the lending library, Tint, a library providing Black art-based materials available to borrow for free. The library serves as an opportunity to build a world where knowledge, art, blackness interact with one another in its multiplicities.

Tint Library is a London-based, Black owned, independent library that provides art-based materials available to borrow for free. Tint operates like a traditional library in the sense that each reader owns a library card which gives them access to all of Tint’s collection on a loaning basis. Tint’s collection holds an array of art books, theories, zines and independent publications that are available to consult wherever our readers see fit. Tint is motivated by the widening of accessibility to art-based material, art education and knowledge dissemination with a strict focus on Blackness.

Tint Library was founded by designer and researcher Mariam Adesokan towards the end of 2023.