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Order TODAY and SAVE 20% OFF our NYABF18 titles, use code “LASTDAY” — Visit www.draw-down.com /Abeceda by Nejc Prah / Abeceda is Slovenian for “alphabet.” In this publication, graphic designer Nejc Prah presents 38 letterforms (and one intentional blank space) to create a compact alphabet reader—from A to Ž. A short, relevant phrase in Slovenian accompanies each letter. A kot ankaran [A is for Ankaran] instead of “A is for apple.” Humor, geographic specificity, and resonance with the letterform suffuse these statements, creating a playful sequence. Non-Slovenian speakers will appreciate the grace, power, and geometric energy of Prah's idiosyncratic letters and revel in this collection of typographic amusement. The publication includes “Objects, Shapes, Curves, Lines, and Verbs,” a list of terms for past, present, and future projects compiled by Sean Yendrys, a graphic designer based in Berlin and founder of Montreal's graphic design program A School, A Park. Published by Draw Down #drawdown #drawdownbooks #NejcPrah #SeanYendrys #nyabf18 @printedmatter_artbookfairs @printedmatterinc #alphabet #typography #graphicdesign #nyabf2018 https://www.instagram.com/p/BoIRCiGh21d/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=19o6139rp7ve6

“Movement in Squares” • new book out with Gloria Glitzer • meet me at table N16 for the official launch and signing • NYABF at MoMA PS1, Sept 21, 2018 / 1p.m. • looking forward to meeting you! 👋presented by Printed Matter

Missed us at NYABF? Order online TODAY and SAVE 20% OFF our NYABF18 titles, use code “LASTDAY” — Visit www.draw-down.com / Reformed 3 / A publication featuring work by students in “Newly Formed”—an advanced #graphicdesign course at the Rhode Island School of Design. Reformed 3 spotlights a selection of new compositions produced for #NewlyFormed, a course which focuses on experimental form-making and image-making using iterative and generative approaches. The publication includes posters, typography, and treated and manipulated images, as well as a short text about the publication. The central section features fourteen portraits: each design student in the class wearing a mask they created or invented. Hiding in plain sight, behind and within their work, these images can serve as a metaphor for the relationship between a designer and their work: designers are always part of the designs they create, however modulated their presence may be. Featuring work by Noah Beckwith, Olivia de Salve Villediu, Helen Gao, Joel Kern, Mei Lenehan, Eunice Li, Jenny Li, Izzi Mordini, Jinhwa Oh, Marie Otsuka, Jay Park, Yeon Ryoo, Kendra Xu, and Can Yang. @printedmatter_artbookfairs @drawdownnoir #NYABF18 #zine #DrawDown #newlyformed #risdgd (at MoMA PS1) https://www.instagram.com/p/BoG6_vWhmG-/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1lxg0y2xh318l

LAST DAY NYABF18! Special prices on the THIRD FLOOR! If you can’t make it, order online and save 20% off our NYABF18 titles, use code “LAST DAY” — Visit www.draw-down.com / Test Pattern by Cem Eskinazi / A collection of test patterns developed by graphic designer and type designer Cem Eskinazi. Eskinazi first began working with test prints during the summer of 2010 when he was placed in charge of a darkroom in İzmir, Turkey and used a focusing sheet to fix a broken enlarger. This experience sparked an ongoing interest in the functional forms drawn by engineers to test and calibrate machines. Eskinazi's #forms in this volume recreate such targets using a related, mathematically accurate approach. The removal of the work from their original context provides a more purely aesthetic experience. While the forms may be considered ornamental, many retain their functional purpose. Published by Draw Down #graphicdesign #testpattern #NYABF18 #CemEskinazi #DrawDownBooks #design (at MoMA PS1) https://www.instagram.com/p/BoFYjMcB0Zq/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1wwwkxany4vo4

Launching at the 2018 New York Art Book Fair: Dima Komarov / Available at www.draw-down.com / A quarter-century after the end of Communism, Russian #photographer #DimaKomarov captures a new generation coming of age in St. Petersburg. Shot in their natural habitat—city streets, country roads, and in the intimacy of their own rooms—these portraits of #Russian #youth capture the vibrant energy, humor and attitude of St. Petersburg in the 21st century. As Anastasiia Fedorova points out in her essay, the images of Russia in the West have been shaped by the political context of the last century, with physical and mental walls built during the Cold War. Dima's work points to a fresh direction, where identity (appearance, gender, sexual orientation) is in flux and images of empathy and understanding counter state narratives. With bruised skin, #DIY tattoos, heavy eyelids, and lipstick traces, these young Russians are icons for the #future. With an essay by Anastasiia Fedorova, curator of 2018's exhibition Post-Soviet Visions: Image and Identity in the New Eastern Europe at Calvert 22 Foundation in London. Published by #DrawDown / Series Thirty-Two, First edition, 2018 @kedr_livanskiy @_nothingxgood @printedmatter_artbookfairs @anastasiia_fedorova #photozine #NYABF18 #zine (at MoMA PS1) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bn_WQgPB_mW/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1a6p8t69eomgi

We are at NYABF2018 until 7pm! Find Draw Down on the THIRD FLOOR! We have NINE new publications! If you can’t make it, order online and save 20% off our NYABF18 titles, use code “LAST DAY” — Visit www.draw-down.com / #drawdown #drawdownbooks #nyabf #nyabf18 #nyabf2018 @printedmatter_artbookfairs @printedmatterinc @drawdownnoir (at MoMA PS1) https://www.instagram.com/p/BoFZOdZh-Lz/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1x39gbqa2prap

Launching this weekend at 2018 NYABF: Alice Wietzel / Find us on the THIRD FLOOR @momaps1 / Published by www.draw-down.com / A collection of drawings by #French illustrator #AliceWietzel that celebrates the nude feminine #form and the beauty of Sapphic relationships. Wietzel's nudes are both mystical and grounded. Her women find themselves side-by-side with classical ceramic forms, animals, and nature or discover intimate moments together on a desert island or desolate beach. They embrace each other. They bask in solitude, centered and serene. “A naked body can’t lie about the one who possesses it, it’s free of social markers. This is what I like about nudity; its boldness and its sincerity.” —Alice Wietzel, Pocket Magazine interview. Published by Draw Down, First edition, 2018. Printed at @risolve Studio / #Risograph @alicewietzel #NYABF18 #zine @printedmatter_artbookfairs #drawdown #drawdownbooks (at MoMA PS1) https://www.instagram.com/p/BoBx3ICB_z9/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=xfyhw4hulygs

NEW! Launching at NYABF: Brooke DiDonato / NOW AVAILABLE at www.draw-down.com / A selection of portraits by American visual artist #BrookeDiDonato invites the viewer to contemplate the hidden #self and explore the strangeness of contemporary life. Born in Ohio and now working in New York, DiDonato builds compositions that tend towards disorientation and the #surreal. DiDonato's minimal aesthetic poses the human form provocatively against natural and architectural forms. Extreme landscapes—corn fields and cacti, a drainage pipe and a lonely desert—as well as domestic spaces, stand in for the subconscious mind. The pictures become fantastic as environments hide or subsume the human figures. Flowers bloom; faces disappear. DiDonato's pictures are haunting and cinematic. The lightness of her preferred pastel #color palette, inspired by 1950s post-war suburbia, lends a softness to this collection, and offers a counterpoint to the strain on the human bodies (mainly female) that bend, stretch and turn away from her #camera lens. Published by #DrawDown #SeriesThirtyTwo First edition, 2018 #photozine #NYABF18 #NYABF (at MoMA PS1) https://www.instagram.com/p/BoAMaVuBX5n/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1vtuzadkxik2p