Printed matter

New Editions Launching at Printed Matter’s LA Art Book Fair: Scratching the Itch by Tim Lahan Reflexion by Tyrone Williams Travel Zines — Seoul by Cory Schmitz Immortal Carbon by Wesley So There There...

Random illustrated mini zines from the Mini Zine Box Set published by Bananafish Books (Shanghai). A Mini Zine is a palm-sized, flash fiction, handmade artist's book, with many lovely names and monikers like little monster zines, micro books, Mame-hon (Japanese: bean-books), and more. Inspired...

As much a study in color and abstraction as it is an experiment in the way in which text can interrupt, influence or affect the reading of the drawing, turning it into an object, a memory, a picture, or nothing at all.

Balmer Hählen is a Lausanne, Switzerland based creative studio focusing on #GraphicDesign and #ArtDirection. For the Rendez-vous des créateurs 2017 invitations, the studio has created a series of printed matters based on unique typography and surprising forms that push the limits of current printing technology. The creative people of Balmer Hählen have created the invitation with the idea in mind: “What’s going on if the impression took over the graphic design?” #typography

Graphic Design, Motion Graphics, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe After Effects

Jen Shear, an artist based in New York City and California, created these black and white newsprint collages for a publication produced by Heavy Time. The images are usually of sexualized bodies or scenes from outer space, and often surrounded by small cut-out icons common to weed culture, r...

Melek Zertal guides us through a fragment of _The X-Files_' famous FBI agent Dana Scully, in which the clerical banal tangles with the paranormal. We find ourselves sharing a walk with the brilliant scientist-cum-agent, where loneliness and weariness allow us to glimpse moments of fragility. List...

Depending on who you ask, _19 in 2021_ is a nonlinear sci-fi serial about aliens and time travel, queer brown teenage angst and surveillance capitalism, or specters and spectrums. - Martian Press

Printed Matter, Inc. is an independent 501(c)(3) non-profit organization founded in 1976 by artists and art workers with the mission to foster the appreciation, dissemination, and understanding of artists' books and other artists' publications.