Josef Albers | Interaction of Color

Josef Albers

Interaction of Color (50th Anniversary Edition) 

Yale University Press, 2013

208 pp.,  6 x 0.75 x 9.25", softcover

Edition size unknown

"The 50th-anniversary edition of a classic text, featuring an expanded selection of color studies

Josef Albers’s Interaction of Color is a masterwork in art education. Conceived as a handbook and teaching aid for artists, instructors, and students, this influential book presents Albers’s singular explanation of complex color theory principles.

Originally published by Yale University Press in 1963 as a limited silkscreen edition with 150 color plates, Interaction of Color first appeared in paperback in 1971, featuring ten color studies chosen by Albers, and has remained in print ever since. With over a quarter of a million copies sold in its various editions since 1963, Interaction of Color remains an essential resource on color, as pioneering today as when Albers first created it.

Fifty years after Interaction’s initial publication, this new edition presents a significantly expanded selection of close to sixty color studies alongside Albers’s original text, demonstrating such principles as color relativity, intensity, and temperature; vibrating and vanishing boundaries; and the illusion of transparency and reversed grounds. A celebration of the longevity and unique authority of Albers’s contribution, this landmark edition will find new audiences in studios and classrooms around the world."

Available from Draw Down books, for $18.00 US, here. 

Benjamin Critton | Evil People in Modernist Homes in Popular Films

Benjamin Critton

Evil People in Modernist Homes in Popular Films  

New Haven, USA: Draw Down Books, 2013

24 pp., 11.5 × 15 in., newsprint

Second Edition

An investigation into the representation of modernist architecture in popular film, reflecting on the convention of associating evil characters and events with modern buildings, and also, more generally, on the relation between cinema and architecture. A series of film stills, quotes and accompanying texts point to examples in The Damned Don't Cry (1950), Diamonds are Forever (1971), Blade Runner (1982), Body Double (1984), Lethal Weapon 2 (1989), L.A. Confidential (1997), The Big Lebowski (1998), and Twilight (2008). Designed by Critton, the publication includes essays by Steve Rose, Jon Yoder, and Joseph Rosa.

Available from the publisher, here, for $50.00. 

Visit DrawDown Books at the Printed Matter Virtual Art Book Fair this weekend. 

The Printed Matter Virtual Art Book Fair

PMVABF launches today at 4pm with countless participating vendors, including Art Metropole, backbonebooks, Book Works, Bywater Bros. Editions, Draw Down Books, Fillip, Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, NERO EDITIONS, New Documents, Nieves, Primary Information, RE/Search and Search & Destroy, RITE Editions, siglio, Slow Editions, Tenderbooks, Three Star Books, White Columns, Whitechapel Gallery and dozens and dozens of others. 

Watch for a live worldwide drawing event in honour of the late Jason Polan, and a performance by ambient musician Laraaji. 

An incomplete list of the many vendors participating this year: 

& Half Letter Press

3 Hole Press

8-Ball Community

A Magic Mountain

A Published Event

A.I.R. Gallery

a/b Books

Aarati Akkapeddi & Philipp Schmitt

Aaron Krach

ABC (Artists’ Books Cooperative)

After 8 Books

 aka Bunker Basement

AKIO NAGASAWA Gallery | Publishing

Alder & Frankia

Alicia's Klassic Kool Shoppe

Allied Productions, Inc./Le Petit Versailles

Almighty & Insane Books

Almine Rech Editions

Alternate Projects

AMBruno

André Frère Éditions

Andrew Miksys

Animal Press

Anteism Books x The Hole

Antenna's Press Street Press

Anthology Editions

Anthology Film Archives

Aperture

Arcana: Books on the Arts

Arcangel Surfware

Archive Books

Arquitectura y fantasía 

Art Metropole

Art Museum

Art Resources Transfer (A.R.T. Press)

ARTFORUM/BOOKFORUM

Arthur Fournier Fine & Rare

Artphilein Editions

Atelier Éditions

Autonomedia 

AVARIE

B&D Press

backbonebooks 

Bad Student Press

Bard Graduate Center Publications

BASEMENT

Beijing Inside-Out Art Museum

billy ocallaghan / 

Bitter

blisterZine

BLOW UP PRESS

BOA NOITE

BOM DIA BOA TARDE 

BOMB Magazine

Book Works

Books for All Press

Brain Washing from Phone Towers 

Bread and Puppet Press

Brian Cassidy Bookseller 

Brick Press

Bricks from the Kiln

Bronze Age

BULK SPACE

Bywater Bros. Editions

Caboose / The Smudge

Calipso Press

CAMP BOOKS

Candor Arts

Capricious 

Carlo Quispe

Carnage NYC

Caroline Paquita-Kern

Case Publishing

Cash Machine

CASSANDRA Press

Center for Book Arts

Centre d'édition 

Chimurenga 

Christina Martinelli

Christopher Branson

Clifton Meador

Clown Kisses Press

Co—Conspirator Press

Cody DeFranco

Cold Cube Press

COLLI independent art gallery

Colour Code

Coloured Publishing

Colpa Press

Connecticut

Contemporary Art Review 

Conveyor Editions

Corraini Edizioni

Cory Emma Siegler

Counterbound

cpress

crevasse

cripple

CRISIS EDITIONS + DANE PRESS

Dale Wittig

Danarti Zine

Dancing Foxes Press

Datz Press 

David Kordansky Gallery

David Zwirner Books

Deadbeat Club

DelMonico Books

Desapê

Dia Art Foundation

Diagonal Press

diasporan savant press

dispersed holdings

District of Columbia (D.C.)

Dizzy Magazine

dmp editions

Dobbin Books

Dongola Limited Editions

Draw Down Books

Dream Press

Drum Machine Editions

East of Borneo

ECU Press/Libby Leshgold Gallery

Ecuador

Ediciones El Fuerte

Edition Patrick Frey

Edition Taube

Edizione Multicolore

EFA Robert Blackburn 

EMBAJADA 

Endless Editions

EXILE Books

EYE IN VISION

F Magazine

Façadomy

Fair Enough (Boabooks, edition fink, 

Farside Collective

FAW

Feixue Mei

Felicita Felli Maynard

Fillip

Florida

Floss Editions

Flower Press

FotoEvidence

Frans Masereel Centrum

frieze

Futurepoem books

Gato Negro Ediciones

GenderFail

Ginger

Gnomic Book

Gold Rain

GOST Books

Gravel Projects

Gregory R. Miller & Co.

GRRRR

HAMBRE HAMBRE HAMBRE

Hammer Museum

Harper’s Books

Hassla

Hauser & Wirth Publishers

Heather Benjamin

Helen Douglas/Weproductions 

Hesse Press

Hi-Bred

Homie House Press

HOMOCATS

Hotam Press

HUMOBOOKS

HUNTERS POINT PRESS

Hyperlink Press

ice fog press

IDEA BOOKS / AMSTERDAM

IKREK

Image Text Ithaca

Infinite Kisses - Artist Zines 

Ink Cap Press, Inc. | GroundWork

Instantes Gráficos

Institute 193

Institute for Interspecies Art 

Interference Archive 

Inventory Press

Irrelevant Press

Issue Press

J&L Books

Jamiyla Lowe

Jason Rovito, Bookseller

JBE Books

Jo Rosenthal & Friends

Jody Zellen

Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller

Justseeds Artists' Cooperative

Juxta Press

K. Verlag 

KARMA

Kaunas Gallery Books

Kayrock Screenprinting

Kentucky

KGP | MONOLITH

Knust/Extrapool

Kodoji Press

Kunstinstituut Melly 

Kwago

L'Arengario Studio Bibliografico

L'Artiere

LAGON REVUE / SAMMY STEIN

Landfill Editions

Las Injurias

Letter16 Press

LIFTA

Linus Bill + Adrien Horni

Lisson Gallery

Little Mountain Press

Lodret Vandret

Look Back and Laugh

Los Sumergidos

Louis M Schmidt

lucky risograph

Lugemik

Maamoul Press 

MACK

Marcus Campbell Art Books

Margaux Bigou

Maria Editions

Marian Goodman Gallery

Martian Press

Más Allá

Matthew Marks Gallery

McGilvery, Laurence

Mega Press/Panayiotis Terzis

MEMBRANA

Mi Casita Press

Michalis Pichler

microutopías

Migrant Journal

Mike Mandel and Chantal Zakari

Miniature Garden

MIT Press

mixedgreens

Moniker Press

Monograph Bookwerks

Most Ancient

Mousse Magazine & Publishing

Multinational Enterprises

NANG Magazine

Naranja Publicaciones

National Monument Press

NERO EDITIONS

New Documents

Nichole Shinn

nico fontana

Nieves

NIGHTED

NOAH LYON

NoRoutine Books

Norsk Risoforening

OAZA BOOKS

Offset Projects

OOF Books

Ooga Booga

Open Projects Press

Oranbeg Press 

Orange Crush: The Journal 

Other Forms

Other Publishing

OUTER SPACE PRESS

Pace Gallery

Pacific

Palm* Studios

Paper Crown Press

Paper Cuts

Paper Monument

Papertown & Nuts! Company

Paradise Systems

Passenger Pigeon Press 

Paul Zelevansky

Pegacorn Press/

per(r)ucho

Peradam Press 

Perfectly Acceptable Press

Perimeter Editions

Pioneer Works Press

PPP Editions/Andrew Roth Inc.

Precog Magazine

Press Press

Primary Information

Primrose Press

Printed Matter, Inc.

Printmaking Workshop

PrintRoom

prompt:

PromptPress

Publication Studio Vancouver

Queer.Archive.Work

Rabbit Rabbit Press / Alaska Bookmobile

Radix Media

Random Man Editions

Raw Meat Collective

RE/Search and Search & Destroy

Reconstructed Magazine

Red Letter Distro

Red Pocket Press

Redboldface

Redfoxpress & Antic-Ham

Rhode Island

Rhombus Press

Richard Kostelanetz /Archae Editions

Rinny Perkins

Ripopée

RITE Editions

Rollo Press feat Yellow Pages

Roma Publications

ROMAN NVMERALS

Ruja Press

RxART 

S U N 

Sacred Bones

Scott McCarney VisualBooks

Seaton Street Press

Secret Riso Club

Shining Life Press

Shortt Editions 

SICK magazine

siglio

Sigrid Calon

Silent Face Projects

Silent Sound

simple project NY

Sims Reed Ltd. 

Slow Editions

Small Editions

Sming Sming Books

Soberscove Press

Social Species

Space Sisters Press

Special Special

Spend Time Zine Mart

Spheres Projects

Stefan Marx

Stefanie Leinhos

Sternberg Press

Stolen Books

Stop Over Press

Street Salad

Strike Design Studio

Sugarcane Magazine 

sweaterqueens

Taller California

TBW Books

Temblores Publicaciones

Temporary Services 

Tenderbooks

Terminal Ediciones

Terranova

The Aldrich Contemporary 

The Black School

The Brooklyn Rail  & Rail Editions

The Concern Newsstand

The Eriskay Connection

The Everyday Press 

The Fulcrum Press

THE ICE PLANT

The New Gallery

The Renaissance Society

The Southland Institute 

The Teachers Project

theretherenow. 

Thick Press

Three Star Books

TIS books

Torpedo Press

TORTILLAGURL

Triangle Books

Tricia Treacy

Tropic Editions

Twin Palms Publishers

TXTbooks

Ugly Duckling Presse

Ulises

Unknown Unknowns

UPON

Vacancy Projects

Valiz

Visible Publications

Visual AIDS

Void

Volatile [redux]

Volker Renner

Water With Water / فسر الماء بالماء

Wave Books

Wendy's Subway

Werkplaats Typografie 

White Columns

Whitechapel Gallery 

Women's Studio Workshop

Wordshape 

WORK/PLAY

X-TRA

Yes Press / NOMag

Yoffy Press

Zatara Press

Zavod P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E.

ZINE COOP

ZOLO PRESS

Boston Art Book Fair

The third annual Boston Art Book Fair takes place this weekend, from November 8th to the 10th, at the Cyclorama at Boston Center for the Arts (539 Tremont St Boston).

Exhibitors include Anthology Editions, Aperture, Benjamin Ogilvy Projects (pictured above), Bomb Magazine, MIT Press (above), DAP, Draw Down Books (above), Homocats, Random Man Editions, Siglio Press (above) and over a hundred other artists and publishers. The event will also feature installations, DJs, workshops and panel discussions. The Boston Art Book Fair is curated and founded by Randi Hopkins and Oliver Mak.

For more information, visit the website, here.

BABZ FAIR

The Blonde Art Books and Zine Fair (formerly known at the Bushwick Art Book & Zine Fair) opens in an hour and continues through tomorrow at 7pm. Now in it's fifth year, the event features small press art and poetry publishers, individual artist projects, and a program of performance, readings, and workshops.

Over a hundred artists and publishers are participating, including 10×10 Photobooks, Books for All, Coin-Op Books, Draw Down Books, Endless Editions, Fuse Works: Multiples & Editions, Ginger,  Inpatient Press, Montez Press, New Documents / Fillip, Primary Information, Siglio, Slow Youth, Small Editions, Vice Versa Press, White Columns, and Zingmagazine.

All events are free and open to the public. For a full list of programming, visit the website, here.

Saturday, June 3, 1–7PM
Sunday, June 4, 1–7PM

Knockdown Center
52-19 Flushing Ave
Queens, New York 11378

Daniel Eatock

Daniel Eatock
Daniel Eatock
Draw Down Books, 2017
32 pp., 6.5 x 9.35", staple-bound
Edition size unknown

Daniel Eatock's new eponymously titled zine presents a selection of the artist's photographs of two-tone repaired cars. The work draws a connection between automotive repair, art conservation and the Japanese art of kintsugi, which treats breakage and repair in pottery as part of the history of the object, rather than something to disguise.

Eatock's photographs feature cars where a part from an identical model - but different colour - has been used as a replacement, and the owner has forgone the final stage of a repaint. The collection presents the thrifty practice as a considered aesthetic decision, where the different coloured door or hood becomes a distinguishing feature.

I saw a yellow car with a black door just last night and thought to myself that if my car required a replacement door I would probably not bother with the paint job, assuming the results looked as good as these (or as the similar Simon Starling Fiat project here).

The zine is priced at $15.00 but available this weekend for $10 at Printed Matter's LA Art Book Fair (Booth G–18), or by using the code LAABF at the Draw Down website, here.

Holiday Recommendation Guest Post: Kathleen Sleboda

Zak Jensen
Humans Being Human Beings
Cambridge, USA: Self-published, 2016
1 poster, ships folded (30 × 22.75 in.) with two postcards (7.5 × 5.25 in.)
Packaged in an archival plastic bag (8 x 12 in.)
Edition of 1000, individually numbered with a sticker

In this era where humane impulses are diminished in civic discourse, this poster (and sharable postcard set) are a reminder that our contemporary condition has biological and cultural dimensions. Or perhaps there are other meanings? Like much of designer’s Zak Jensen’s personal work — graphic and typographic explorations — simplicity allows for viewer interpretation.

Zak Jensen’s multiples supplement his professional practice as a graphic designer and reflect his love of simplicity, typography, and the human heart. Jensen is currently the design manager at the Harvard Art Museums in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He obtained his MFA from Yale after studying at the University of Utah.

Humans Being Human Beings is available here.


Kathleen Sleboda is a graphic designer and illustrator, co-founder of Draw Down Books, curator of Women of Graphic Design, and partner at Gluekit.

Bushwick Art Book and Zine Fair

The fourth annual Bushwick Art Book and Zine Fair takes place this weekend, featuring new and recent publications by independent publishers, artists and writers. Presented by Blonde Art Book, the fair also features workshops, book launches, readings, and other programming, including a conversation with Nayland Blake.

Participants include Draw Down Books, New Documents, Primary Information, RATSTAR, Small Editions and many others. For a full listing of programming, visit the Blonde Art Books website, here. A 'concise guide' by media sponsor Hyperallergic can be found here.

The fair runs from 1 to 7 pm on July 16th and 17th, at Signal, which is located at 260 Johnson Avenue in Brooklyn.

Zak Jensen | 12 PEACES

Zak Jensen
12 PEACES 
Draw Down, 2016
12 pp., 5.5 × 3.25", boxed
Edition of 500

A screen-printed box houses a 12-page booklet, twelve stickers, a large and small button, and an iron-on patch. Each are adorned with an altered peace symbol.

Available from Draw Down Books for $14.95 US, here.  Visit the artist/designer's site here.

Toronto Art Book Fair preview: Draw Down Books

Toronto Art Book Fair

A week from today the Toronto Art Book Fair (TOABF) launches with an opening night preview party. The party runs form 6 to 9pm on Thursday June 16th, and will feature DJ Cameron Hodge and Healing Powers DJs.

The fair then continues through to Sunday the 19th. The free public event will feature 75 Canadian and international vendors (full list below), a speaker series, readings, talks, launches and workshops.

For more information, visit the website, here.

Fair Hours:

FRIDAY, JUNE 17 | 11AM - 7PM
SATURDAY, JUNE 18 | 11AM - 7PM
SUNDAY, JUNE 19 | 11AM - 6PM

Location:

ARTSCAPE YOUNGPLACE
180 Shaw St
Toronto, ON, Canada
M6J 2W5

Vendors:

8Eleven
Akin Collective
Alicia's Klassic Kool Shoppe
Anchorless Press
Archie Mag
B&D Press
Badlands Unlimited
BlackFlash
Booger Brie
C Magazine
Cabinet Magazine
Canadian Academy in Rome
Canadian Art Magazine
Carbon Paper
Colour Code
CRIT Paper
DNA Artspace
Double Dot Magazine
Draw Down Books
Dunlop Art Gallery
Ediciones Daga
Eli Howey
Endless Editions
fangrrlz
Femme Crimes Distro
Fillip
Food Court
Frontier
GuyGuyGuy
Halifax Ink
Hesse Press
Hex Editions
Impulse (b:)
Issue Press
Jackie Lee Art
Jonathan Rotsztain
Justseeds Artists' Cooperative
Kendra Yee
Koffler Centre of the Arts
Lido Pimienta
Louise Reimer Illustrations
Makuktu Art Project
Massive Goods
Matte Magazine
Matthew Scott Gualco
Maxwell Galley
Metatron
Mother Books
Micah Lexier
Musterni
New Document
Nothing Else Press
Ohara Hale
Open Sesame
Or Gallery and Bookstore
Paul and Wendy Projects
Perish Publishing
Possible Worlds/ Spins and Needles
Project Space/VABF
Ray Ray
Sab Meynert
Sagan Editions
Sarahaha
School of Image Arts - Ryerson
Scrapbooks
Sergej Vutuc
Soon.tw
Space Face Books
Studio-Set (Exhibiting with VABF)
Swimmers Group
Tallulah Fontaine
Tetyana Herych
Technologie und das Unheimliche
TXTbooks
TYPOLOGY
Vice Versa Press
Wayward Arts
YYZ Artists' Outlet

(If you are an exhibiting vendor and have additional information about your plans for the fair, message me at ddyment@rogers.com and I'll attempt to post it in time for the fair).