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Celebrating books by artists, poets, writers, book designers and their publishers. The next fair will take place in 2027. linktr.ee/small_publishers_fair

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Julie Johnstone @essencepress.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
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Julie Johnstone @essencepress.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Some glimpses of my book vessels currently included in ‘Paperwork’ - an exhibition of 10 Scottish artists working with paper, print and book art. www.rudastudio.com Ongoing until 7 Nov, 11-4 Wed-Sat.
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Longbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
From river to pond, the heron steps and pauses over a mined world. 'Have You Always Been Here?': a new post on the Longbarrow Press site longbarrowpress.com/2026/09/18/h...
Three pamphlets by Matthew Clegg - Eyes Front, Crystals & Dust, The Living  - arranged on a garden table.
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Longbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Xing the Line: @emmabolland.bsky.social reads with Nell Perry, Iris Garrelfs and Jordan Savage, Sunday 11 October, Dream Bags Jaguar Shoes, 32 Kingsland Road, Shoreditch, London, E2 8DA. £5 waged, £3 unwaged. Doors at 6pm for a 7pm start.
Xing the Line semi-abstract promo graphic
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Charles Boyle @cbeditions.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
CB editions October newsletter: a brick: sonofabook.blogspot.com/2026/10/news...
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Anthony Etherin @anthonyetherin.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
CONCERNING THE TRIOLET The form is short; some lines repeat, but terms distort. The form is short, its meaning caught in metered feet. (The form is short some lines? Repeat.)
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Sarah Bodman @sarahbodman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
ILSSA Diagrams at Looky Here Greenfield, MA. lookyheregreenfield.com this Fri 9 Oct 5:30 - 10pm. Exhibition & Northampton Print & Book Fair Pre-Party! Sat 10 Oct, 12-5pm + Northampton Print & Book Fair, 11am-5pm. www.northamptonprintandbookfair.net Organised by Emily Larned. impractical-labor.org
A poster for ILSSA Diagrams at Looky Here Greenfield, MA, listing the event and the exhibitors.A poster for ILSSA Diagrams at Looky Here Greenfield, MA showing 3 overlapping diagram circles.A poster for ILSSA Diagrams at Looky Here Greenfield, MA aligned with the Northampton Print & Book Fair.
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Jen Calleja @jencalleja.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
All my final tour dates for 2026: New York, Montréal, Toronto, Singapore, Oxford, etc. jencalleja.substack.com/p/tour-dates...
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Tour dates: New York, Montréal, Toronto, Singapore, Oxford, etc.
I’m heading out on the third and final leg of my 2026 “world tour”.
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Small Publishers Fair @smallpublishers.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Agreed! Utterly beautiful and instantly re-readable. Congratulations @eyesfront.bsky.social and @longbarrowpress.bsky.social a publishing highlight for 2026!
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Alec Finlay @alecfinlay.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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Oobin
an essay on tidal poetics Alec Finlay In his menagerie, Glasgow Beasts (1961), my father, or faither, Ian Hamilton Finlay’s urban fox is a typical bully-huff. the blokes aa sayed ah wis a G R E A T…
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Steve Eely @steveeely.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
There are still a few places left on my online creative writing (poetry) short course, ‘Creating Bespoke & Organic Forms: Shaping Poems in the Act of Composition’. More information and booking details can be found here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/creating-b...
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Creating Bespoke & Organic Forms: Shaping Poems in the Act of Composition
A creative writing (poetry) course of 5 workshops in which participants will devise their own bespoke forms for poems and sequences.
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Jean McEwan @jeanmmcewanartist.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
'We belong to the great web of life' Exploring entanglement with the living world & all beings through collage journaling this morning, using a found page from a nature book as my starting point. Making like this helps me think✂️🖌️ Some new participatory work on this coming soon! #interconnection
Collaged images and text on top of a page from a nature book. The text is cut out/photocopied and comes from various sources, including 'Togetherness: Symbiosis and the Hidden History of Life's Greatest Collaborations' by Rowan Hooper, 'Love Letters to the Earth' from Thich Nhat Hanh, and 'How to Practise: The Way to a Meaningingful Life' by the Dalai Lama. Cut out images on the collage include pictures of amphibiansm birds, mammals, insects and humans. The images and text are arranged informally on top of the book page. Other text, generated by me and printed out, includes the words 'we are not separate' 'we can't be disconnected' and 'we belong to the great web of life'
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Lepiota procera, 1894 watercolour by Beatrix Potter. Best known for her children's books. Potter also studied mycology, the scientific study of fungi and was a keen conservationist #WomensArt
Watercolour featuring a study of three mushrooms or toadstools of the same species against a cream background
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Small Publishers Fair @smallpublishers.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Love it!
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Sarah Bodman @sarahbodman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Run Hide Hibernate - works by Finlay Taylor opens at Kingsgate Project Space, London, Thurs, 6 - 9pm. Exhibition: 9th – 31st Oct 2026, Thurs – Sat 12 – 6pm. Exploring natural phenomena and landscape, specific sites and species through print media and book art. www.kingsgateworkshops.org.uk/upcoming
A poster for the exhibition Finlay Taylor - Run, Hide, Hibernate. The image is of two very dark barked tree trunks with two white pearlescent snails on them. The text has the info for the show: at Kingsgate Project Space, 110-116 Kinsgate Rd, London NW6 2JG. Opening event: Thursday 8th October 6 - 9pm. Exhibition open: 9th – 31st October 2026. Open Thursday – Saturday 12 – 6pm
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Joanna Hastings @joannahastings.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
All this - plus tiny poems of distilled wonder. Whether they focus on beauty or squalor, the moment of noticing, the detail that takes you beyond yourself, is heart-stopping. Worth every penny even if the price was doubled.
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Uniformbooks @uniformbooks.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“...an important poem, a major long poem of the 1960s... Uniformbooks are to be commended for bringing it back into circulation in a format that is both handsome and serviceable.” —Billy Mills blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/The-Book-of-the-Green-Man-by-Ronald-Johnson/9781910010044 #PoetryDay
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Matt Clegg @eyesfront.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
In an age of acceleration, optimisation, and endless scrolling, slowness can feel radical. Linger. Listen. Look again. Have You Always Been Here? from @longbarrowpress.bsky.social longbarrowpress.com/featured-poem/
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Featured Poem
Tzu-Jan as Performance Outcome | Matthew Clegg Into every account mail is pinging: ‘we will secure our long-term future by competing on more fronts.’ Let’s find a glade where a thought might grow. …
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Julie Johnstone @essencepress.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Delighted to be part of ‘Paperwork’ An exhibition of 10 Scottish artists working with paper, print and book art. Opening Sat 3 Oct at Ruda, St Boswells 11am - 4pm. Do drop in. www.rudastudio.com I will be showing new pieces from my ongoing vessels series. Ongoing until 7 Nov, 11-4 Wed-Sat.
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Sarah Bodman @sarahbodman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Upcoming event: Between Reading and Looking: Women to Watch, Tate Britain, 23 October 2026, 14.00–17.00. Panel discussion and display focusing on women and artists' books. Tamsin Green, Larissa Nowicki, Batool Showghi, Rachel Smith, Francisca Prieto, Welmoet Wartena. www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tat...
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Women to Watch | Tate Britain
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Sarah Bodman @sarahbodman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Call for applications: @fruitmarket.bsky.social Artists’ Bookmarket 2027. Edinburgh’s annual celebration of artists’ books culture, 13 & 14 February 2027. Stalls, accompanying exhibition, events and workshops programme. Applications close 08.11.26. More info at: www.fruitmarket.co.uk/artists-book...
A call out poster for the Artists’ Bookmarket 2027 in Edinburgh. Inviting participants, link for applications is in the main text message.
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Anthony Etherin @anthonyetherin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
For over ten years, I've been running an experimental poetry press called Penteract Press. Penteract exists to give a platform to constrained, experimentally formal, and visual poets. [1/4]
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Store — Penteract Press
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Fly on the Wall Press @flyonthewallpress.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Ever wanted to peek behind the scenes of publishing? At the Northern Publishers' Fair you’ll meet editors, agents & indie publishers shaping the future of books in the North. Don’t miss your chance to connect on Sat 14 Nov 11am, Mcr Central Library fly-on-the-wall-press.eventcube.io/events/97643...
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Charles Boyle @cbeditions.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Happy publication day to this new banana, issue 4 of The Little Review. I'm in here, on Reznikoff - translated into Polish, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Swedish, but zero in print in the UK until Testimony from CBe next year.
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Dr Jill Whitelock @jillwhitelock.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Ladybird on Ivy. #InsectThursday
Close-up photograph of a Ladybird on an Ivy flower.
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Longbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
From river to pond, the heron steps and pauses over a mined world. Three postcards (350gsm uncoated cardstock) accompanying three new pamphlets (Eyes Front, Crystals & Dust, The Living) by Matthew Clegg. Haiku on reverse. Have You Always Been Here? Out now longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...
Three postcards with watercolour artwork depicting herons.
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Broken Sleep Books @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Viewings works through the many senses of its title: flats seen but not secured in a hostile Dublin rental market, the interior of a body read through scans and symptoms, and the cartography of an island off Galway that was never there. www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...
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Longbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Boo! We're presenting a collective reading at the University of Sheffield on Wed 2 December - Angelina D’Roza, Steve Ely, Pete Green, Rob Hindle, Chris Jones and Fay Musselwhite - free, no booking required. Details not on the website yet, but let me know if it's of interest and I'll keep you posted.
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Charles Boyle @cbeditions.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
CB editions September newsletter, including news of the first ever CBe author tour, archived on the blog: sonofabook.blogspot.com/2026/09/news...
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Sarah Bodman @sarahbodman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
An AHRC funded PhD opportunity at the British Library - 'Inscribing Friendship: Social Networks, Artistic Practices and Collecting Histories in the Alba Amicorum at the British Library'. Deadline to apply 27 Nov 2026. All info at: www.bl.uk/services/res...
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Collaborative Doctoral Landscape Awards
Fully-funded and jointly supervised studentships across four developing research areas.
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Julie Johnstone @essencepress.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
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Longbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Join us for a specially devised event to launch 'The Gleaning', the second poetry collection by Fay Musselwhite. Wednesday 30 September (7.30pm start) Upstairs at Shakespeare's, 146-148 Gibraltar Street, Sheffield S3 8UB Free entry, all welcome. Book here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/fay-mussel...
Flyer promoting the launch of 'The Gleaning' by Fay Musselwhite in Sheffield on Wednesday 30 September
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Julie Johnstone @essencepress.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Read @gregchthomas.bsky.social on Edwin Morgan's Colour Poems (they are included in our new volume of Morgan's concrete, visual and sound poetry *A Home in Space* from @reaktionbooks.bsky.social ) www.flemingcollection.com/scottish_art...
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Les Fugitives @lesfugitivespress.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Please join us for the launch of THE SURVIVING CELLS on 14 October at @burleyfisher.bsky.social with author @brianwillems.bsky.social in conversation with @hannahhg.bsky.social burleyfisherbooks.com/products/the...
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Dave Borthwick @borthwickdave.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
terrific mail day - trio of pamphlets by @eyesfront.bsky.social (& coverart poscards by anon.), requiring usual penknife surgery to extract as do all careful packages from @longbarrowpress.bsky.social
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Imogen Reid @imogenreid.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Beautiful post from @intergraphiabooks.bsky.social & @vikshirley.bsky.social No @smallpublishers.bsky.social this year, I will miss having a chat with @emmabolland.bsky.social @rachelartsmith.bsky.social & @longbarrowpress.bsky.social Good job you can order the book here intergraphia.cargo.site/Shop
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Small Publishers Fair @smallpublishers.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Book Fair Calendar is a list of UK anarchist, book art, indie, small press, zine and other fairs. In September alone, ten will take place in Eastbourne and Reading (both this Saturday 12), and in London. smallpublishersfair.co.uk/book-fair-ca...
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Julie Johnstone @essencepress.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Other events are listed here on the @edmorgantrust.bsky.social website edwinmorgantrust.com/2026/08/10/a...
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A Home in Space: Upcoming Launches and Events
Edwin Morgan is best remembered as Scotland’s foremost national poet, a bold, lyric voice who shaped conversations around queerness, politics and post-war life. But Morgan was also a restless exper…
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Small Publishers Fair @smallpublishers.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
"the plain form of the pamphlet has persisted throughout the history of publishing, its flexibility and limited extent perfectly suited to a single concern or to simple gatherings of text and images..."
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Sarah Bodman @sarahbodman.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
An exhibition celebrating Coracle press - directed by Erica Van Horn & Simon Cutts, opens at South Tipperary Arts Centre 12/09/26 on show until 24/10/26. Explore Coracle's influence on artist-led-publishing, the development of the artist book, & the book as art object. www.southtippartscentre.ie
A green cloth bound book with text that reads: 'coracle, celebrating the work of Erica Van Horn and Simon Cutts, 12 Sept - 24 Oct.'
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Uniformbooks @uniformbooks.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Early hours.
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Longbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Visionary, urgent… extraordinary blendings of environmental & social history. - Mark Wormald This spirited, astonishing, bewildering book is one of the best long poems I have read. - Adam Piette One of 2024's wildest volumes of poetry. - Christian Bok 'Eely' longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...
Three copies of Steve Ely's 'Eely' against an orange background.
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intergraphia @intergraphiabooks.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Here's a few photos from last month's Michael Marks Awards event, at which Hana Ormara was presented with the Illustration Award for her intergraphia pamphlet. Hana interviewed for the Michael Marks Awards: michaelmarksawards.org/in-conversat... Buy the pamphlet: intergraphia.cargo.site/Hana-Ormara
Hana Ormara at the Michael Marks AwardsIllustrator Chris Riddell with Hana Ormara's intergraphia pamphletIllustrator Chris Riddell with the poster accompanying Hana Ormara's intergraphia pamphlet
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intergraphia @intergraphiabooks.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Cover reveal! We're delighted to announce the first title in intergraphia Series 5: 'Amorous Electrons' by @vikshirley.bsky.social, a sequence of images and poetry that draws on electronic music pioneer Daphne Oram’s 'An Individual Note of Music, Sound and Electronics'. On sale from Wednesday.
Unboxing of Vik Shirley's 'Amorous Electrons' pamphlet
Vik Shirley's 'Amorous Electrons' pamphlet and poster
Vik Shirley's 'Amorous Electrons' pamphlet and poster
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confingopublishing.bsky.social @confingopublishing.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
What brought Ginsberg to Manchester in 1973—and whom did he meet? @rogerbygott.bsky.social investigates in Ginsberg & Manchester, out 3 September. Pre-order now for £7 + p&p: www.confingopublishing.uk/product-page... Photo: Allen Ginsberg Estate/Stanford University Libraries #BookSky #Manchester
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N u z h a t B u k h a r i @nuzhatbukhari7.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
The Editor of CB Editions @cbeditions.bsky.social Charles Boyle (pictured below) would like to get more books into bookshops & readers' hands. If you're a bookshop, or a reader, please order directly from him to make him smile! Please share this post. . . www.cbeditions.com/books.html
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Sarah Bodman @sarahbodman.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Bristol Artist’s Book Event is nearly here - Friday 26th & Saturday 27th June 2026 at UWE Bristol Fine Art Studios at Spike Island, 133 Cumberland Rd, Bristol BS1 6UX. 11am - 5pm each day. Free event - All welcome: www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/babe2026/ Come and meet 100+ book artists!
This is a tiny fabric book made with a cotton reel as its base, an unfolding piece of textile strip with a pattern of teacups with the text Tea Leaf Readings. Made by Sally Light - Bodkin Beak.An image of four books published by Intergraphia books, each one has a different colour cover dark orange, light orange, lime green, dark green. The books contain experimental text works by writers, poets, artists.
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Longbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Join us in Sheffield next week for the launch of 'The Gleaning', the second poetry collection by Fay Musselwhite. Wednesday 24 June Upstairs at The Shakespeare, 146-148 Gibraltar Street, Sheffield S3 8UB 7.30pm start Free entry, all welcome. Book here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/fay-mussel...
Several copies of 'The Gleaning' against a yellow background.
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Sarah Bodman @sarahbodman.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Our BABE poster printed by Ben Goodman, it’s out and about in town but we have saved some for exhibitors to collect when they arrive next week (while they last). A beautiful relief printed blend celebrating our guests from Japan with a snow topped Mount Fuji. www.spikeisland.org.uk/programme/ev...
Our wonderful BABE poster printed by genius Ben Goodman, a sloped mountain shape with a beautiful relief printed blend in blue ink on pale grey paper celebrating our guests from Japan with a snow topped Mount Fuji. Text reads BABE Bristol Artist's Book Event.
A detail from our BABE poster. Text reads BABE Bristol Artist's Book Event. 26 & 27 June 11am - 5pm with the website address: www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/babe2026/Our wonderful BABE poster printed by genius Ben Goodman, a sloped mountain shape with a beautiful relief printed blend in blue ink on pale grey paper celebrating our guests from Japan with a snow topped Mount Fuji. Text reads BABE Bristol Artist's Book Event. 26 & 27 June 11am - 5pm with the website address: www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/babe2026/
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the modernist @themodernist.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Britain's post-war graphic designers helped reshape society during a period of profound national transformation, yet many of their names have quietly slipped from view... the-modernist.org/blogs/news-1...
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Righting a Wrong: Why We've Reprinted Modernist Graphic Design in Britain 1945–1980 in Paperback
Some books deserve to reach more people. When we first published Modernist Graphic Design in Britain 1945–1980 by Ian McLaren and Tony Pritchard, we knew we had something special on our hands. What we...
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