Garden Party Magazine’s third issue arrives on Wednesday 30 September, 150 pages devoted to rituals as acts of intimacy and grounding. Founded, edited and designed by Elena Fazzino, the issue brings together 19 contributors working in photography, poetry and writing, printed by Park Communications on paper by GF Smith. The…
Photographed during a university degree in post-Covid Wellington and left in the archive for four years, Felix Jackson’s Street Style is now a publication, designed by Murex Studio and printed in a first edition of 200. Wellington has a reputation. A small city with a dense creative culture, a strong…
Amsterdam-based illustrator NoGood releases a self-published, crowdfunded 272-page monograph collecting five years of work, essays by Cory Doctorow, Douglas Rushkoff and others, and the thinking behind a practice rooted in retro technology, open-web counterculture and the politics of ownership. The NoGood Book took two years to make and kept changing…
Mumbai-based award-winning graphic designer and AGI member Shweta Malhotra collects a decade of fashion illustrations from her visual diary Something Cool Everyday into a limited edition Riso-printed zine, produced with Miso.inc in Surat. In 2014, Shweta Malhotra started a visual diary called Something Cool Everyday, a daily illustration practice where…
Designer, researcher and transmedia artist Feixue Mei brings together exhibitions, public conversations, workshops, artist books and an online forum across James Madison University and Boundless Bound Publishing this autumn, exploring what happens to cultural heritage, publishing and identity when they cross generations, places and communities. 传 (chuán) means to transmit,…
Under KVW Publications, artist and editor Katrina Vera Wong publishes a series of pocket guides to plant families, each featuring ten works by ten artists on ten plants. The sixth issue covers the nightshade family, Solanaceae, in a wrapped accordion fold designed to be both beautiful and educational. Katrina Vera…
Charlotte Rubesa founded a print-first publication asking what happens after peak internet, bringing together fifteen contributors across essays, interviews and reflections in a riso-printed, hand-embossed first issue that embodies the slower, more intentional culture it argues for. The exhaustion is real. A media landscape optimised almost entirely for speed, scale…
From premium lay-flat albums and fine art portfolios to fast, app-driven keepsakes, these are the ten photo book companies worth knowing if you live in the UK. Whether you’re a working photographer looking for gallery-grade output, a designer assembling a portfolio, or someone who simply wants family memories off a…
Texas-based founder and editor Chris Brown has spent decades building Refueled into an independent magazine, creative agency and think tank, drawing from the cultural energy of the 1960s to create a publication built on community, heritage, authenticity and a lifelong belief in the power of the printed page. Chris Brown…
New York-based director, designer and illustrator Daniel Savage publishes Something Savage with Vetro Editions, a book of pen-plotted geometric animations built from bleeding marker lines and layered colour, with each page paired with augmented reality content. Daniel Savage’s background is in percussion and graphic design, and that combination shows. The…
London-based street photographer Mark Luke Grant brings together a year of 35mm colour film photography in a first edition of one hundred hardback copies, capturing the small details, odd moments and quiet humour of East London life that reveal themselves only if you slow down. Extra Ordinary did not come…
Lisbon-based design studio Frau im Mond launches Alien Magazine, a publication built for people who feel other, with design decisions that enact the very dichotomies they describe: rough where you expect smooth, unreadable where you expect legible, strange where you expect welcome. Alien Magazine began as a question: what would…
Independent publisher Vetro Editions releases Pixel Rugs, the first full monograph by Rhode Island-based artist Travess Smalley, printed in fluorescent Quadrifluox inks that glow under UV light, with essays by Casey Reas and Anika Meier situating the work within generative art history. Travess Smalley’s studio is, by his own description,…
Stockholm-based artist and graphic designer Andy Voitka turns creative paralysis into a 69-page self-published book, using the stuckness itself as starting material and arriving at a maximally tactile printed object with covers made from recycled LED panel plastic. Andy Voitka was stuck. His graduation project at Beckmans College of Design…
Cairo-based visual and graphic designer Ahmed Elnafad documents graffiti, street markings, layered posters and erased messages across Egypt in a 358-page hand-bound photobook, treating city walls as unstable public archives constantly written on, erased and rewritten. Ahmed Elnafad was sixteen when he painted a wall with friends and got chased…
New York-based Indian designer Seher Anand creates a research-led printed book that examines migration through architecture, passports, border systems, national symbols and carried objects, treating every design decision as part of the narrative it is building. The frustration that generated Migrant Landscape was specific: migration is too often framed as…
UK-based food photographer, stylist and art director Costas Millas creates a 64-page limited edition art book of conceptual food photography using only black and white subjects, hand-sewn with an exposed spine, as a deliberate act of craft in a world increasingly shaped by content and AI generation. Costas Millas became…
NTU Associate Professor and DEVIL Lab founder Lisa Winstanley brings together three designers from three continents in a 156-page limited edition publication that is part manifesto, part archive, part research, and designed to be torn apart and used. The dust jacket is neon orange and purple. The cover beneath it…
Independent brand designer Izzy Poirier leads a large-scale editorial project between the Ottawa Design Club and New York Design Club, building a story-led publication with silver and clear inks, lenticular inserts and a typographic system that mirrors the project’s core idea: meaning that is not immediately visible but revealed through…
Athens-based design studio Sputnik reimagines the printed brochure as a puzzle for a physical rehabilitation practice, cutting four typographic layouts in half, mixing the pieces and placing them inside each other so patients can experience the satisfaction of reassembly. The idea is precise in its logic. REHAB is a physical…