Emma Christine Hall

Emma Christine Hall is a book designer based in Brooklyn, NY. Co-founder of Benson & Benson, she works from an in-house studio at Penguin Random House designing books that prioritize intentional visual choices over automated efficiency.

Emma Christine Hall designs books that argue against automation and accident. As co-founder of Benson & Benson with Kevin Barrett Kane, she works from an in-house position at Penguin Random House, where the studio selects projects that add meaning to an increasingly sloppy visual world. The practice is centered on book design as an act of intentionality—asking what role designers play when generative AI promises to flatten every choice into efficiency. Her talk this fall on Lafayette Street isn't about resisting the machine; it's about insisting that books deserve the kind of attention that only human deliberation can provide.