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In alphabetical order / Available at www.draw-down.com / A facsimile of the seminal magazine created by #UlisesCarrión and #Cres — originally published in 1979. In this photographic book—one of very few of Carrion's entire practice—Carrión is critical about his own affiliation with the mail art movement. The book presents a series a photographs of his calling card filing box, which Carrión juxtaposes with witty and poignant captions: “This book of mine is partly real facts and partly fantasy. The real fact is that I love lists of names, card indexes, information retrieval systems, that sort of thing. No wonder I have an archive at home, the Other Books and So Archive, which includes a collection of artist's books.” Layout by Thomas Gravemaker / Published by #Boabooks #graphicdesign

(the drum) / Ulises Carrión / Available at www.draw-down.com / One of artist Ulises Carrión’s early linguistic exercises in English, originally handwritten in black ink in 1972. The artist fragments the names of musical instruments to express a sound. His attitude to poetry precluded, to a certain extent, his book The new art of making books: “The text of a book in the new art can be a novel as well as a single word, sonnets as well as jokes, love letters as well as weather reports.” A key figure in Mexican conceptual art, #UlisesCarrión (b. 1941, San Andrés Tuxtla, Mexico; d. 1989, Amsterdam) was an artist, editor, curator and art theorist. His visual art practice was founded in an interest in print culture and media, which led him to engage with mail art and eventually performance, film, and video. In 1975, Carrión founded Other Books and So, a pioneering distribution center for artists' publications and multiples in Amsterdam. Designed by #IzetSheshivari #Boabooks

The Next Page / Available at www.draw-down.com / The Next Page gathers the thoughts of The Liberated Page on #contemporary #books and #publishing. An international union based in Geneva, Switzerland, The Liberated Page aims to support and promote the critical and intellectual dissemination of #artistsbooks and independent editions across the world. This book, published after an exhibition of the same name at the #NewYorkArtBookFair at #MoMAPS1 features contributions from Jungle Books, Mathieu Christe (Footnotes), Edition Patrick Frey, Catherine Gottraux (Cadrat Éditions), Winfried Heininger (Kodoji Press), Adrien Horni, Philippe Karren (Sphères), Guadalupe Ruiz (Horni Ruiz), Georg Rutishauser (edition fink), Izet Sheshivari (Boabooks), Benjamin Sommerhalder (Nieves), and Jan Steinbach (Edition Taube). Published by #Boabooks

Maïden Survey. Designed by NORM. / Available at www.draw-down.com / The study compiles correspondence, images, an essay, and plans that reference the transitory architecture built during the siege of Maïdan Square in Kiev. As beacons of resistance, city squares have acquired iconic status for political claims, where many temporary autonomous areas changed and challenged the ruling authoritarian regimes. Published by Boabooks #graphicdesign #typography #norm #Boabooks #Survey #architecture #design

A Metaphysical Interior by Izet Sheshivari & Luca Lo Pinto “A Metaphysical Interior” is the title of the book that was published on a proposal from Luca Lo Pinto during the exhibition “D’après Giorgio”, which was held at the Fondazione Giorgio e Isa de Chirico from 27th January 2012 to 27th January 2013. The book presents the result of a correspondence protocol suggested by Izet Sheshivari at the curator’s invitation. After receiving and printing the 214 illustrations sent by the artist, Luca Lo Pinto arranged the pictures within the museum space, and documented them in situ. Featuring captions, the book provides “augmented” perspectives from a visit of Giorgio de Chirico’s flat. Page after page, the book generates an ever-changing relationship between the meaning of a flat interior design and the remote discovery of works by contemporary artists. 105 x 224 mm, 318 pp.,Offset, English/Italian, 2014, published by Boabooks

Maïden Survey. Designed by NORM. / Available at www.draw-down.com / The study compiles correspondence, images, an essay, and plans that reference the transitory architecture built during the siege of Maïdan Square in Kiev. As beacons of resistance, city squares have acquired iconic status for political claims, where many temporary autonomous areas changed and challenged the ruling authoritarian regimes. Published by Boabooks #graphicdesign #typography #norm #Boabooks #Survey #architecture #design

Blank Book Makers by Izet Sheshivari