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• 2nd Cannons Publications
  A publishing project by Los Angeles-based artist Brian Kennon. 2nd Cannons Publications produces artists’ books and editions. Beginning November 2011, 2nd Cannons will run a year-long project space / bookshop in the back room of the gallery ltd Los Angeles.

  www.2ndcannons.com
• 88Books
  88Books is a Vancouver-based independent press specialized in artists’ books and zines by emerging and lesser-known artists from China. Committed to representing new voices, 88Books provides flexibility and freedom of expression to the participating artists and aims to foster the production of artists’ books, a relatively new concept in China. Each book is conceived and created uniquely by the Chinese artist but produced in our Vancouver studio. Currently our creators are mostly photo-based artists and photographers.

  www.88books.ca
• a/b Books
  a/b Books was founded in 2010 by Swiss artist Alexander Buhler as the imprint under which he self-publishes artist’s books in limited editions. a/b Books also presents and collaborates on publications by other artists.

  www.a-bbooks.org
• AMMO Books
  AMMO Books publishes exciting, one-of-a-kind, visually charged arts and pop culture books for its dedicated, design-savvy audience. AMMO’s evolving list for adults and kids is known for its amazing design, thoughtful writing, and exquisite printing.

  ammobooks.com
• Andrew Roth
  PPP Editions will launch Out To Lunch, a signed and numbered, limited-edition book by Ari Marcopoulos (8.5 x 11 inches, 368 pages). An index of sorts, Out To Lunch presents Marcopoulos’ earliest and most recent black-and white photographs (we nixed the middle years) in various formats: 256 matte black-and-white images; dozens of high-gloss contact sheets; hundreds of vinyl stickers; eight oversized, glossy pull-out posters, and a 32-page screenplay written together with his son Cairo, all bound together with black binder’s gauze and housed in an illustrated plastic bag. Edition of 350 plus 20 deluxe copies housed in a specially made cardboard box with added silver prints and ephemera. Our project room will also feature a series of newly editioned silkscreens, newsprint posters, loose sticker-sheets and more Marcopoulos for those who just can’t get enough!

  www.andrewroth.com
• Archive Books / Archive Journal
  Founded in 2007 by Chiara Figone, Archive Books is a publishing house committed to the development of a range of activities that explore contemporary cultural production. With its publications, Archive works to present art publications as a method of bringing art practices into the public discussion. It aims to produce and distribute printed materials, creating and maintaining a dialogue between cultural research and social sphere.

  www.archivebooks.org
  www.archivejournal.org
• Arts and Sciences PROJECTS
  Arts & Sciences PROJECTS is a creative laboratory for emerging and established artists, curators, and other collaborators. We aim to provide a production and dissemination platform through independent publishing, an alternative project space, and temporary installations and performances.

  www.artsandsciencesprojects.com
• Book Works
  Established in 1984, with the mission to disseminate visual art practice to as wide and diverse an audience as possible, Book Works is a contemporary visual arts publisher, based in London. In addition to our main activity of book publishing, we also produce text-based works, installations, multiples, videos and new media projects.

  www.bookworks.org.uk
• Bywater Bros. Editions
  Bywater Bros. Editions is an independent publisher producing artists’ books and editions

  www.bywaterbros.com
• Colpa Press
  Colpa Press produces work that examines the print form in the age of digital media. Its publications, cards, and limited edition prints investigate the relationship between printmaking and concept, with production decisions motivated by this dialogue. In March of 2012 they opened Epicola, a repurposed newstand on Market Street in San Francisco selling artists’ books, prints and zines.

  colpapress.wordpress.com
• Container Corps
  Container Corps is a publication design studio, printshop, bindery, and exhibition space that serves as a platform for the creation, distribution, and discussion of new arts publications.

  containercorps.com
• Critical Making
  Critical Making is a handmade publication by Garnet Hertz that explores how hands-on productive work – making – can supplement and extend critical reflection. It’s also an appeal to DIY makers to be critically engaged with culture, history and society. Contributors to the ten volume project include Mitch Altman, Julian Bleecker, Albert Borgmann, Anne Burdick, Chris Csikszentmihalyi, Carl DiSalvo, Alex Galloway, Reed Ghazala, Natalie Jeremijenko, Golan Levin, Liz Losh, Geert Lovink, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Monochrom, Mark Pauline, Alison Powell, Fiona Raby, Matt Ratto, Scott Snibbe, and Ken Wark.

  conceptlab.com/criticalmaking/
• DDMMYY
  Based in Auckland, New Zealand, DDMMYY is a new publishing label specialising in limited edition artists’ books and multiples.

  www.ddmmyy.org
• Dominica Publishing
  dominicapublishing.com
• Domino Books
  www.dominobooks.org
• Edition Patrick Frey
  Edition Patrick Frey works in close collaboration with authors, mainly Swiss but from other countries as well. Its mission is to provide young artists in particular with a platform for their début publication. At present, six to eight books are produced annually, with a focus on photography, art, and studies of everyday and popular culture.

  www.editionpatrickfrey.ch
• Emily Carr University Press / Charles H. Scott Gallery / Publication Studio Vancouver
  The Charles H. Scott Gallery and Emily Carr University Press publishes artist’s books, monographs, selected writing and music projects. Publication Studio Vancouver prints books on demand to produce experimental publications with artists and writers. PSV is part of a network of studios in other cities (see www.publicationstudio.biz).

  chscott.ecuad.ca/ecupress
• Études Books
  Études Books is an independant publisher focusing on contemporary photography, based in Paris and New York City, founded in 2012. Études Books curates and publishes books, especially a collection of photographers’ monographs entitled Blue books. Études Books is part of Études studio, a collective working in the fields of fashion, publishing and art.

  www.etudes-studio.com/books
• Les Figues Press
  Les Figues Press is an independent, nonprofit publisher of poetry, prose, visual art, conceptual writing, and translation. Based in Los Angeles, our mission is to create aesthetic conversations between readers, writers, and artists. Les Figues Press publishes five-seven books a year and favors projects that push boundaries of genre, form, and general acceptability. Founded in 1978, LACE supports artists who innovate, explore, and risk. We move within and beyond our four walls to provide opportunities for diverse publics to engage deeply with contemporary art. Internationally recognized as a pioneer among art institutions, we have presented the work of over 5,000 artists, which has provided the impetus for dialogue about contemporary arts and culture for over 30 years.

  lesfigues.com
• Foggy Notion Books
  Foggy Notion Books is an independent publisher based in New York and Los Angeles. Founded by in 2010 by Kristine McKenna, Lorraine Wild and Donna Wingate Foggy Notion specializes in art, photography and literature.

  store.foggynotionbooks.com
• Gottlund
  The Gottlund book house is an independent publishing project based in Kutztown, Pennsylvania. Dedicated to producing artist books and limited edition multiples, our books follow a lineage while being innovative and forward thinking. Producing editions in house and by hand, we strive to have books communicate with utmost clarity the vision of their source.

  www.gottlundverlag.com
• Gregory R. Miller & Co.
  Gregory R. Miller & Co. publishes high quality books about contemporary art, architecture, and design. Our catalogue is focused primarily on definitive artist monographs. We regularly work with museums. Our books aim to enhance our understanding of art and to contribute to the broader cultural dialogue of which art is an essential part.

  www.grmandco.com
• Hassla
  Hassla is a New York-based publishing house with a focus on artists’ books and catalogues.

  Hassla
• Hol Art Books
  Hol Art Books is an independent press dedicated to publishing and promoting exceptional writing on visual art as a means of engaging readers with art objects and art spaces in the real world. We publish classic works of art criticism and history; artist texts and biographies; and the best of contemporary writing, including fiction, non-fiction and works in translation.

  www.holartbooks.com
• The Ice Plant
  The Ice Plant is a publisher of fine, illustrated books and other printed matter. We collaborate closely with artists on all aspects of the book-making process, from concept, to design, to tangible object. Specializing in small print run artists’ books, we also produce the popular 5 Year Diary (in conjunction with Shopsin’s General Store).

  www.theiceplant.cc
• J&L; Books
  J&L; Books is a non-profit Atlanta / New York based publisher of artists’ books.

  www.jandlbooks.org
  http://j-lpictures.tumblr.com
• KARMA
  KARMA is a bookstore, gallery and publisher specializing in artists’ publications, located in the West Village of New York City. In addition to its own titles, KARMA stocks periodicals, artworks, artists’ editions, rare and out-of-print items and other in-print titles by noted publishers.

  www.karmakarma.org
• Kickstarter
  Kickstarter is a funding platform for creative projects. Everything from films, games, and music to art, design, and technology. Kickstarter is full of ambitious, innovative, and imaginative projects that are brought to life through the direct support of others.

  kickstarter.com
• Knust / Extrapool
  Established by artists for artists in the 1980s, Knust is Extrapool’s famous infamous graphic workshop specialized in stencil (“mimeograph”) print. Located in Nijmegen, Netherlands, Knust is an essential part of the multi-omniverse of the Extrapool art space, creating an accessible printing and bookmaking workshop where many niches meet, greet, clash & mix.

  www.extrapool.nl
• LAND AND SEA
  LAND AND SEA is a small press/record label/labor of love based in Oakland, California. LAND AND SEA began during the final breaths of 2009 with the purpose of releasing monographs and records by artists we find vital and interesting. Along with books and records, LAND AND SEA has organized releases and gatherings in many places, from D.I.Y. zine shops to major art institutions.

  landandseelandandsea.blogspot.com
• Last Gasp
  lastgasp.com
• Little Big Man
  Little Big Man is a New York based publishing house specializing in the creation of of unique and strictly controlled editions of artist books and projects. From shorter experimental editions to fully formed publications, Little Big Man is dedicated to exploring the intersection where photography and contemporary art meet.

  www.littlebigmanbooks.com
• Little Brown Mushroom Books
  Founded in 2008 by Alec Soth, Little Brown Mushroom has published a number of artist books and zines. Little Brown Mushroom recently launched a series of photographic story books for adults and the first title in this series was done by Australian photographer Trent Parke. “Little Brown Mushroom is a DIY affair that blessedly doesn’t have to define itself or, for that matter, make money. LBM is our lemonade stand. It is mostly an excuse to enjoy the pleasures of making and sharing something cool.”

  www.littlebrownmushroom.com
• MACK
  Mack is a publisher of fine photography and art books.

  www.mackbooks.co.uk
• Marquand Books
  marquand.com
• Mousse
  Mousse is an independent publishing project. Established in 2006, Mousse magazine is an international bimonthly issue about contemporary art. Mousse Publishing makes books, catalogues, and zines working together with artists, critics, curators, art institutions and initiatives.

  www.moussemagazine.it
• NOAH LYON / RETARD RIOT
  NOAH LYON is a multi media artist who lives & works in NYC. Artist books have been part of his repertoire for over 20 years. RETARD RIOT is a punk-rock/hip-hop anarcho artist collective that has been using & abusing copy machines since the early 1990’s to make zines, music, buttons, and other slow moving objects.

  www.retardriot.com
• onestar press / Three Star Books
  onestar press – strictly unedited by the publisher – is dedicated to the production of books, movies, and multiples by artists. Three Star Books are artworks, handmade, highly finished, and luxuriously produced with materials that are globally sourced.

  www.onestarpress.com
• Paper Chase
  paperchase.net
• Park Life
  parklifestore.com
• PictureBox
  PictureBox is a Grammy-award-winning publishing company based in Brooklyn. Founded by Dan Nadel in 2000, Picturebox has produced over 100 titles with cartoonists, designers, and contemporary artists. Debuting at the LAABF is Ben Jones’ “Men’s Group”.

  www.pictureboxinc.com
• Presspop, Inc.
  Established in 1990 in Tokyo, Japan. Presspop is an alternative DIY company publishing art books and comics and making art toys by artists worldwide, and distributing overseas art magazines and books to Japan.

  presspop.com
• Primary Information
  Primary Information is a non-profit organization devoted to printing artists’ books, artists’ writings, out-of-print publications and editions that are vital to contemporary dialogues and artistic practice.

  primaryinformation.org
• Public Fiction
  publicfiction.org
• Publication Studio Vancouver
  www.publicationstudio.biz
• RE/Search Publications
  V. Vale launched SEARCH & DESTROY punk-zine (1977) with $100 from Allen Ginsberg and Lawrence Ferlinghetti at City Lights Bookstore. Punk provided a launching pad for Vale’s cultural-anthropological explorations, including industrial music, the writings of J.G. Ballard and William Burroughs, feminism, pranksterism, studies of The Body, plus “incredibly strange” filmmaking and music in RE/Search

  researchpubs.com
• REDFOXPRESS
  REDFOXPRESS is run by Francis Van Maele in the West of Ireland since 2000. In his silkscreen studio he prints limited hand printed editions. He makes also his own artist’s and publishes since 2007 a very successful collection of visual poetry and fluxus named “C’est mon dada”.

  www.redfoxpress.com
• Ridinghouse
  Ridinghouse is an imprint committed to publishing primary documents, art historical research, first monographs, anthologies of interviews and critical writings. Established in 1995, the organisation has been rapidly expanding since 2004 and currently produces 8-10 books a year.

  www.ridinghouse.co.uk
• Sara Ranchouse Publishing
  We aim to provide opportunities for interaction with art in everyday situations, utilizing books and other printed forms that reside comfortably in ordinary and various venues. We sustain our practice and the material world at large by recycling everything from extant texts to paper cut-offs and coffee grounds.

  www.sararanchouse.com
• Sequence Press
  Sequence Press was established in 2010 to nurture potent, yet under-recognized voices in contemporary philosophy and the arts. We aim to stimulate the discussion that our titles command through public lectures and other encounters where artists, thinkers, and ourt readers at large can enter into dialogue beyond their prescribed fields of expertise.

  sequencepress.com
• siglio
  siglio is an independent press in Los Angeles publishing uncommon books that live at the intersection of art and literature. We produce trade and limited editions, artist multiples, and small collections of ephemera.

  www.sigliopress.com
• Soberscove Press
  Soberscove Press is a Chicago-based press that seeks to make accessible material that is either difficult to access and/or that fills a gap in the literature. Soberscover is also eager to share in book form our enthusiasm about other compelling projects and subjects.

  www.soberscovepress.com
• Social Malpractice Publishing
  Social Malpractice Publishing is an artist-run label founded in 2009 by Sean Joseph Patrick Carney in Portland, OR.

  www.socialmalpractice.com
• SPA
  SPA, a sister to creative studio Commonwealth Projects, is a new project space that releases limited edition short-run publications by emerging artists. Featured publications include collaborations with Jerry Hsu, Eric Yancker, and Giovanni Duca. SPA also exists as an ever-evolving physical space and online presence that curates and hosts artists’ projects.

  totalluxuryspa.com
• Sternberg Press
  Sternberg Press grew out of the small publishing house known as Lukas & Sternberg, founded in 1999 by Caroline Schneider. Dedicated to an expanded notion of writing on art, Sternberg Press has created a formidable platform in which practitioners from the fields of art and culture (architecture, design, film, politics, literature and philosophy) can engage in a critical discourse. Each book is a special object celebrating creative publishing at its best. Through both commissioned and translated works, Sternberg Press seeks out the blind spots within contemporary discourse and offers a timely response to the related debates.

  www.sternberg-press.com
• Sternthal Books
  Sternthal Books is an art group and book publishing company devoted to spreading ideas through visual culture. We believe that art provides all people with the power to express ourselves, transform our surroundings, and make the world a better place. Our mission is to help artists conceive, produce, and distribute publications, as well as to produce books where philosophical issues are broached with images.

  sternthalbooks.com
• TBW Books
  TBW Books is an independent photography book publishing company founded and run by Paul Schiek in Oakland, California. The company publishes book series featuring four artists as well as individual monographs. Artists published in the series include Jim Goldberg, Alec Soth, Marianne Mueller, Todd Hido, as well as others.

  www.tbwbooks.com
• Textfield
  textfield.org
• Torpedo Press
  Torpedo is a non-profit publisher and bookstore devoted to the promotion and production of artists’ books, art theory and critical readers in contemporary art. Torpedo is also a space for producing and hosting different events in connection with book launches, concerts and exhibitions in collaboration with artists, curators and institutions.

  www.torpedobok.no
• Ugly Duckling Presse
  Ugly Duckling Presse is a nonprofit art and publishing collective producing small to mid-size editions of new poetry, translations, lost works, essays, and artist’s books. The Presse favors emerging, international, and “forgotten” writers with well-defined formal or conceptual projects that are difficult to place at other presses.

  www.uglyducklingpresse.org
• YES PRESS
  Yes Press founded by Bruce Kalberg and Ewa Wojciak veteran publishers of the early L.A. punk scene magazine No Mag. Featuring artwork by Gary Panter, Raymond Pettibon, Fred Tomaselli, and photographs of countless L.A. underground bands and notables. Small Press publishing continues to be a viable alternative to the publishing giants demographic approach to creative writing, the good stuff is still to be found in collaborations with small press publishers. Kalberg self-published the L.A. punk novel Sub-Hollywood under the name Bruce Caen (2005) in which he chronicled the early underground LA music, art and culture scene he was a part of.
• Zavod P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E.
  Zavod P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. is independant cultural producer and publisher, operating for the past eleven years in Ljubljana, Slovenia. In 2004 we launch a new program focused on artist books and editions and recently collaborate with known local and international artist and artist groups as: Sanja Ivekovic, Mladen Stilinovic, OHO, Temporary Services, Jasper Fabricious. Artist book program is focused on education, presentation and new production of artist books and artst editions.

  www.zavod-parasite.si

Zines

• Adam Villacin
  Adam Villacin creates zines that explore various aesthetics ranging from his sub-cultural interests to mythological archetypes. Villacin’s interest in illustration developed from reading comic books and reflect a formal engagement with the last 50 years of its history. The encyclopedic quality of his zines stem from a sophisticated understanding of the subjects combined with an absurdist sense of humor.

  www.adamvillacin.com
• ANAL
  Es una publicación impresa hecha por, para y sobre homosexuales alrededor del mundo. Con un diseño único, esta revista muestra cualquier tipo de expresión cultural, erótica o de interés general para aquellos hombres que no inhiben su gusto por otros hombres. Aquí se ofrece una selección magnífica, principalmente mexicana, de fotografía, arte, literatura, moda, estilos de vida y entrevistas con personajes sobresalientes de una subcultura dispuesta a conquistar el mundo. Todo con un punto de vista crítico, propositivo y franco para penetrar el gusto y el interés del lector, al que se le considera siempre presto a su propio ámbito.

  www.anal-magazine.com/blog/
• billy ocallaghan
  By tinkering with an illustrated book during my first year of SFSU’s MFA program, I found my form, redirecting my focus to self-published, full (photographic) color zines as final output for my project-based practice. Over the three year program, I made the templates for three double-sided zines, using humor and craft to report on my investigations around extinction (birds of America 2010 supplement/redacted), queer and sexual politics (the gods sure are queer/perv (local, organic)), and plants (owed to plants).

  www.billyverse.com
• Brown Griffin
  Best-known for the annual “Afterzine” arts and culture journal, Brown Griffin is an independent publisher of printed editions, art prints and paper ephemera operated by Hamish Robertson from Los Angeles, California.

  www.brown-griffin.com
• Cinders
  Cinders is an artist-run gallery in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn that has held over 60 exhibitions, countless performances, and curated group shows internationally since its inception in 2004. We also self publish art zines and have a section in the gallery dedicated to handmade artist books.

  www.cindersgallery.com
• COMBO
  COMBO is a mexican poster-zine which was borh in 2011. It’s made with a strong emphasis on the serendipity of the creative process. We have released 6 issues, with the collaboration of more than 40 artists and writers from Mexico, Argentina, and Chile. Each issue has a decided-by-chance theme.

  www.combo2x1.com
• Dale Wittig
  Dale Wittig has been publishing Artist Books under his own and various fictitious names for the last quarter of a century. These works often deal with sex and politics and the politics of sex. He has worked with various artist groups, primarily with Cheap Art and the Small Free Inn.

  artebarrato.blogspot.com
• Darin Klein & Friends
  Darin Klein & Friends present Box of Books, Vol. VI. A hand-picked selection of all-new artists create small books for the latest volume, using the same fold-out technique and with widely differing content. Advertising, memory, love, language, identity, the archive, sex and more are explored through texts and images in this dynamic and affordable boxed set of twenty-three individual publications. Edition of 150, individually signed and numbered.

  www.darinkleinandfriends.blogspot.com
• Deadbeat Club
  Deadbeat Club is a publisher, and distributer of small books, publications, and other ephemera run by Clint Woodside.

  clintwoodside.com/about/shop/
• Deth P. Sun
  We’re a small group of friends who have known each other for a very long time who enjoy making zines and products and sharing tables at various zine fests.

  dethpsun.com
• Drippy Bone Books
  Drippy Bone Books is an underground assembly line for art books, comics, music, and zines published by artists Kristy Foom, Mario Zoots, and Keenan Marshall Keller. Based in Amsterdam, Denver and Los Angeles respectively, the trio match their distinct tastes with a disparate international audiences, working together to create unique small-run publications, music releases and art multiples.

  www.drippybonebooks.com
• DUM DUM Zine
  DUM DUM publishes experimental lit and art that embraces hybrid, transmedia forms. In the past, we’ve featured text message interviews, sonic literature, how-to stories, video poetry, and even serialized radio plays. Based out of Los Angeles, DUM DUM is also a collective of people all over the country who collaborate on generating new, experimental work. Each issue completely changes format based on the kind of stuff we receive or commission. You’ll find 17×22 broadsides on newsprint (Issue 1), an audio zine on CD (Issue 2), and a BOX for Issue 3: PUNKS & Scholars, which we just successfully funded through Kickstarter and will be debuting at LA Art Book Fair.

  dumdumzine.com
• Encyclopedia Destructica
  Encyclopedia Destructica is a community-based collaborative endeavor that promotes the work of artists and writers through handmade artists’ books and zines. Our books are produced through a series of weekly bookbinding parties that foster a dialogue between contributors and the local community.

  encyclopediadestructica.com
• Evah Fan and Brendan Monroe
  Artists from Oakland, hanging out in LA for the weekend. Stop by and say hi.

  www.evahfan.com
  www.brendanmonroe.com
• Fantasy Camp
  Fantasy Camp is a Canadian independent publisher of artists’ books based in Toronto. Dedicated to producing handmade, archival quality editions that serve as art objects as well as publications dedicated to contemporary illustration.

  www.fantasy-camp.blogspot.com
• Funchicken
  Zines, unlovable limited edition prints and books, handmade wackiness.

  funchicken.com
• Gary Kachadourian
  I make scale pencil drawings of objects that are then used for Xeroxed and laser printed books and posters. The posters are life-sized reproductions of the objects that are folded and sold at prices according to their size.

  www.garykachadourian.com
• Golden Spike Press
  http://www.golden-spike.com
• Gravity and Trajectory
  Gravity and Trajectory is an opportunity for artists and curators to explore the specifics of showing work within the book format, the page that is the gallery wall.

  www.gravityandtrajectory.tumblr.com
• Hamburger Eyes
  Hamburger Eyes began as a small xeroxed zine, turned into a magazine, and has now evolved into a publisher. With a headquarters fully equipped for producing zines, magazines, and books, they are able to produce seemingly hundreds of titles a year. Their secret facility also houses a professional darkroom for printing editions of silver gelatin black and white prints and full color chromegenic prints.

  hamburgereyes.com
  hamburgereyeland.com
• IIIII Columns
  http://www.iiiiicolumns.com
• Instigator
  Instigator produces zines, editions and objects. Influenced by Dada, Pop and the New York Post, Instigator wants to urge, start, ignite, advocate and goad the viewer to stop, drop and laugh. Operated by Paul Weston.

  www.instigatordesign.com
• The Institute for Extraterrestrial Sexuality
  extraterrestrialsexuality.org
• j. morrison
  Brooklyn-based artist’s new screenprints, multiples, and ephemera.

  www.j-morrison.com
• JIMMY the zine
  www.jimmythezine.com
• Justin Jorgensen / COP DAD Magazine
  Justin Jorgensen’s “COP DAD” is a non-fiction “magazine of the exceptional personal” experience.” Other published works by this LA-based artist include “PARTY MONSTER,” a document of Jorgensen’s 2009 Midwestern farmhouse installation, and “Obscene Interiors: Hardcore Amateur Decor,” an exploration of online male personal ad photos, with foreword by Todd Oldham.

  copdad.com
  justinjorgensen.com
• Kingsboro Press
  The Kingsboro Press runs out of New York and is helmed by Daniel Wagner, Megan Plunkett, and Jordan Awan. It is raw art, theory, and literature. It is non-thematic and without a scheme, and publishes unique, entirely self-produced objects and journals.

  www.thekingsboropress.com
• Leisure Labor
  Leisure Labor is an umbrella that hovers between the creation of form and distribution of information. We sit in the cross section of what are the acts of necessity and what are the frivolous acts of rebellion against routine. There is a passion for productivity, investigation, and an overarching theme of connectivity throughout work and life. At least that is what we strive for. Est. 2012.

  leisurelabor.com
• Little Paper Planes
  Established in 2004, Little Paper Planes assists emerging artists in their careers through prints, publishing, curatorial and licensing projects. LPP’s intentions are to facilitate dialogues and awareness around Contemporary art between both the artists and public alike. The mission is to provide the connections, engagement and momentum of collecting art ephemera in all areas.

  littlepaperplanes.com
• Louis M. Schmidt
  Louis M Schmidt is an artist, zinemaker, and one half of a new artist book publishing project called Gravity and Trajectory. Schmidt currently resides in San Diego, where he’s finishing graduate school at UCSD. He recently curated a small group show at Park Life in San Francisco and held solo solo exhibitions at The Periscope Project and Agitprop in San Diego. Several new zine projects are forthcoming.

  bridgethevoid.blogspot.com
• Miniature Garden
  Miniature Garden is a small publishing project that focuses on collaborative artist books, zines, and posters.

  www.miniaturegarden.org
• Needles & Pens
  Needles & Pens is an emporium of zines, independent press, artist books, handmade goods and an art gallery. Based in San Francisco’s Mission District since 2003.

  needles-pens.com
• Never Press
  Never Press is an independent publishing house based out of Los Angeles, CA. It was formed by friends with hopes to create project based art books that feed their curiosity. If you have a curious project or a curious question, please go ahead and email us.

  neverpress.com
• Nhd
  Nhd is a multidisciplinary design and screen printing studio located in Washington DC. Nhd will exhibit a collection of artist zines, cards, small and large prints and other ephemera. Our publications and prints are a combination of illustration, photography and typography – all reflecting a visual language that celebrates our passion for art & design and everything in between.

  www.nathanhilldesign.com
• Nieves
  Nieves is an independent publishing house based in Zurich, Switzerland. Founded in 2001, Nieves’ focus is on publishing Artist Books and Zines.

  www.nieves.ch
• NOWORK
  NOWORK publishes anonymous, collaborative projects relating to New York City. We focus on photographic material taken, found and recirculated in public space.

  www.nowork.us
• Oso Press
  oso-press.com
• Pau Wau Publications
  Pau Wau Publications is an independent publishing collective dedicated to the production of small run & limited edition publications of contemporary photography. Our handmade process invokes a craft-based tradition that employs modern technology to create publications that we hope engage and inspire a dialogue on form, display and image.

  www.pauwaupublications.com
• Paul Anthony Moreno & Charles Francis Welch
  KNOWSGAY is a loose leaf collaborative publication based on sex, whimsy, dreams, and last minute plans.

  bathedinafterthought.com
  charliewelch.com
• PIN-UP
  Magazine for Architectural Entertainment.

  www.pinupmagazine.org
• Pop-Hop Books & Print
  Pop-Hop Books & Print is a bookstore and printmaking studio located in the Highland Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, with the goal of offering a selection of goods and schedule of programming to provide the community with the opportunity for inspiration and participation in equal measure.

  www.thepophop.com
• Shawn Whisenant
  Shawn Whisenant is a Bay Area based artist who spends most of his time lurking in the streets of SF, camera in hand, capturing the harsh reality that our empires of shit predispose us to. Since the mid 1990s, Shawn’s work has endured the urban elements, making a home atop the complex array of surfaces that comprise the city’s make-up. His highly recognizable style encompasses an impressive body of hand-made art books, paintings and photography.
• Signify, Sanctify, Believe
  The Library of Sacred Technologies (LoST) is an ephemeral cabinet of mystical wonders and the experimental publishing platform of Signify, Sanctify, Believe. The LoST collection consists of dozens of found and newly-created publications, and features works of playful semi-secular religious invention by artists, performers, and writers from Los Angeles.

  signifysanctifibelieve.org
• Starrfucker Magazine
  starrfucker.bigcartel.com
• Sumi Ink Club
  sumiinkclub.com
• Swill Children
  Swill Children is an umbrella encompassing physical and internet based projects in one place. Positivity, creation, community, loss, destruction and sadness are all addressed within the individual works, be it a hand-made zine, short run vinyl record series, or anonymously submitted book interventions. Swill Children unites these forms and approaches under one heading.

  http://swillchildren.org
• Working Class
  Working Class represents a community of local artists in New York. We are a Brooklyn-based, web and print ‘zine showcasing talent from all corners of the art world: writers, photographers, poets, illustrators, street artists, small business owners, and musicians. With New York as our vibrant – and sometimes brutal – backdrop, Working Class taps the pulse of the art world and discusses why we all stick around.

  www.workingclassmag.com
• The Worst Magazine Ever
  “IT! The Worst Magazine Ever,” is a self-published art periodical of absurd and grotesque character, founded and run by artist Maryna Tomaszewska. Its contents ranges from short stories, curator’s texts, photo series to illustrations and site-specific projects. Each issue has a different theme and format, and depending on the issue, circulation is between 500 and 2000. The latest issue, GOLD, is a Russian-Polish collaboration. The launch will be held in Krasnoyarsk, Siberia. Contributors to the magazine are Polish and international artists, critics, journalists. The magazine has been shown at art book fairs in London and Tokyo.

  www.najgorszy.com
• The Wreckless Press
  The Wreckless Press is a Bay Area originated zine created by the artist and writer Kelso Riley. Now based out of Downtown Los Angeles, this journalistically influenced contemporary art zine embraces the grimey underbelly of our present day underground. Kelso’s unabashed love of print-making, freight trains and shitty graffiti play an influential role in the manifestation of her publication.

  thewrecklesspress.com
• ZINE’S MATE
  ZINE’S MATE was established in 2009 by UTRECHT & PAPERBACK MAGAZINE for the purpose of organising THE TOKYO ART BOOK FAIR. ZINE’S MATE is also an organization which acts as a catalyst and facilitator for artist projects and events.

  www.zinesmate.org