Will Holder is a designer and writer, preoccupied with conversation as a model for production and documentation. In May 2009, Holder curated "Talk Show" at the ICA, an exhibition and season of events concerning speech and accountability. He is editor of F.R.DAVID, a journal concerned with reading and writing in the arts, published by de Appel, Amsterdam. Holder is currently editing and designing a biography of American composer Robert Ashley in the form of operatic notation (together with Alex Waterman), and rewriting William Morris’ "News from Nowhere (An epoch of rest)" (1876) into a guide for design education and practise set in 2135.