Francesca Richer specializes in the design of visual books, magazines, logos, and promotions for an international clientele of photographers, artists, product designers, book packagers and publishers. Early design collaborations include books on the work of Larry Fink, Robert Capa, Diane Arbus, Mimmo Jodice, Bruce Gilden, Gilles Peress, and Sylvia Plachy, and on projects for the International Center of Photography, the Aperture Foundation, Rizzoli / Universe Publishing, Scalo, and DoubeTake.

Francesca was the founding Design Director of Gotham magazine, and has art directed Interview magazine, Mamm magazine, and Tricycle: The Buddhist Review. Her art and photography book designs have won the European Book Publishers’ Award and are included in lists of favorites in Pictures of the Year, Photo District News, the Los Angeles Times, and the New York Times.

In 2002, the studio launched its own book packaging division, to conceptually develop, edit, and design a series of contemporary art and photography books. The first of these, appropriately, is a collection of the "first" works of more than 300 artists, to be published in 2003.