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…
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…
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…
Graduating NID designer Neya Prabu reimagines how the Tamil script can be learned through visual relationships and form, developing an experimental publication in the Netherlands that grew from her grandmother’s teaching methods and became a way to share a part of her cultural identity through design. The idea did not…
Book artist, designer and writer Ruchika Nambiar produces a limited edition of five artist books that make a therapy transcript fully available and entirely unreadable at the same time, using mirrors and a flag book structure to explore the gap between transparency and vulnerability. In 2018, Ruchika Nambiar recorded a…
Chennai-based multidisciplinary graphic designer and art director Malavika Natesh builds a self-initiated zine from mixed media collage, typography and personal writing, creating a visual piece that carries meaning rather than just surface appeal. The title is an intimate address. Letter to the World borrows from Emily Dickinson, but Malavika Natesh’s…
Printmaker, book artist and paper conservator Hannah Fray develops sculptural concertina books during her residency at the Regional Print Centre Wrexham, merging etching, screenprint, spray paint and drawing into hybrid cityscapes that debut at Bristol Artists’ Book Event in June 2026. The cities Hannah Fray builds in her books do…
Berlin publisher TOC marks its tenth edition with a letterpress Tenth of December that pairs Zuzana Licko’s Filosophia with a deliberately chaotic set of chapter heading typefaces, combining optical illusion bookmaking with a typography that honours, then gleefully disrupts, Saunders’ own narrative spirit. Tenth of December is the tenth edition…
Brighton-based writer and designer Phoebe Wellsted turned post-graduation uncertainty into a virtual magazine that now gives women and LGBTQ+ creatives a platform to share their work, their voices and their talents across five issues and counting. It started with an Instagram account and a column that never quite launched. Phoebe…
Vietnamese boutique creative practice Fins Studio translates a poet’s emotional journey into a physical form through exposed Coptic binding, handwritten poems and illustrations drawn from real photographs, creating an intimate keepsake that is as much presence as publication. The demoiselle crane is a quiet bird. A migratory species associated with…