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Accidental Interest Books (AIB) is a micro-publisher. It publishes intuitively, following its own interests as well as those of others. AIB was founded in late 2019 and published its first titles in 2020.
Someone once said: “This publisher is dedicated to the absurd, the coincidental, and the surprising.” Despite the utmost care devoted to concept and design, its small print runs resist the idea of a comprehensive editorial strategy. AIB serves its niche with great relish.
It is currently working on a series of walks and readings leading up to the publication of Locus Amoenus, a collection of sculptures in public spaces, mainly in Berlin, by Lukas Kesler, accompanied by walks and texts about the surrounding areas and neighbourhoods by writer Olga Hohmann.
www.accidental-interest-books.com
Instagram: @accidentalinterestbooks
A Cypriot poet, artist and environmental scientist based between Nicosia and Berlin. Her work explores what lies beyond identity: the subconscious, memory and the relationship between humans and nature. Rooted in existential and surrealist inquiry, she is interested in the raw experience of being, the discomfort of existence, and the ways language, image and material can reveal what often remains unseen.
A background in environmental sciences informs an attentiveness to landscapes, ecological processes, cycles of transformation, and the interconnectedness between humans and nature. Through poetry, artist books, photography, and organic materials, poetic forms emerge that move between inner and outer landscapes.
This practice has resulted in a series of independently published books, including Lemon Peels , PALAVRA, and In Motion . She understands publishing as an extension of her poetic practice.
Instagram: @aytenp
Azul de Bolsillo is a publishing and graphic design project that uses print publications to share knowledge and experiences on a variety of topics, with travel and the relationship with nature as central themes. It develops projects, research, and publications in diverse fields, including botany and ethnobotany, traditional gastronomy, and sustainable agriculture.
It functions as an experimental laboratory focused on the artistic exploration of the book and fanzine format. Based in Cali, Colombia, the project has a printing space and fosters dialogue between publishing and the local territory, creating spaces for sharing with diverse voices that enrich its vision. It also offers introductory and advanced workshops related to these experiences.
Instagram: @azuldebolsillo
Bia! Zine is a biennial, independently published magazine that documents the voices, food, stories, and journeys of migrant communities within the Global Majority in Ireland. It is released once every two years.
Instagram: @bia_zine
Bikini Books is a feminist design publisher based in Porto, founded in 2023. It publishes critical, accessible, and thoughtfully crafted nonfiction at the intersection of cultural history, journalism, and creative writing. It also regularly organizes workshops and events on the political dimensions of design.
“Feminist” signals their political stance towards authors and readers. More importantly, it reflects a commitment to understanding publishing as a tool for critical thinking and a practice of care, one that supports stories pushed to the margins and voices that are often overlooked.
“Design” is the field from which their practice begins, but also one whose boundaries are continuously crossed and questioned. Design is understood as a political practice, deeply intertwined with the material and spatial fabric of everyday life. Changing the present requires imagining and fabricating alternative endings and new beginnings, and stories are central to that process.
Storytelling is the backbone of culture. It’s as old as humankind and integral to every community on earth, not just as an art form but as a vital tool to connect people, forge belonging and expand our perspectives.
The world of literature has become divorced from the practice of storytelling and, today, is far too transactional - books are written and published behind closed doors, and presented to us as an end product to be consumed. But a story is a starting point, and storytelling is a practice that belongs to all of us.
Bog Bodies Press is a publishing house that looks beyond literature; we exist to gather people around unbounded storytelling, both on and off the page.
Instagram: @bogbodiespress
Bored Wolves is an independent publishing house run by poet Stefan Lorenzutti and Joanna Osiewicz-Lorenzutti, based in Krakow. Since its founding, they have built a catalog of over 60 books and fanzines featuring authors and artists from more than 20 countries—from Chile to Japan—encompassing artist's books, poetry, fanzines, and comics, with many titles blurring and overlapping these categories.
They publish works that resist easy categorization and reject haste. Each title is a distinct object, designed from scratch around the specific logic of the work, offset printed in Krakow on papers chosen for their texture and weight. Despite their formally humble nature, their publications have been nominated for and awarded prizes in competitions such as "Best Photography Book of the Year" and "The Most Beautiful Polish Books". In 2025, they received the Tokyo Art Book Fair Talent Award for best editorial project and practice.
They care deeply about the artisanal aspect, but equally about keeping books accessible.
Instagram: @boredwolves
Pixel by pixel, impulse by impulse, Callum Leo Hughes explores the desire and malleability of images. Drawing from online and offline subcultures, image archives, and queer issues, his work focuses on atypical printing methods and self-editing. He combines his own photography with found materials to create images, installations, collages, photographic objects, and publications.
Graduated in Photography from Camberwell College of Arts, part of the University of the Arts London (UAL), in 2013. Alongside participating in international solo and group exhibitions, has since focused on self-publishing their own artistic projects. Research has also been developed around queer zine archives in London, New York and San Francisco.
The self-published books and zines have been presented at several international fairs.
Instagram: @callumleohughes
Chili com Carne is a non-profit association founded in 1995, based on the free cooperation of its members. Since then, it has promoted exhibitions, publications and other initiatives in the field of the arts. Its work privileges the independence of the author, understood as creative freedom and autonomy, while valuing the diversity of forms and contents that shape contemporary artistic and cultural expression.
Instagram: @chili_com_carne
Chimurenga — a pan-African intervention in the form of print, radio and experimental production — is based in Cape Town, South Africa, where it has been producing work in print, audio and spatial formats for more than two decades.
Instagram: @chimurenga_sa
Cielo Santo is an independent publishing house based in Madrid and Barcelona, committed to contemporary thought and formal experimentation. Since 2023, it has published texts that transcend conventional genres—essay, fiction, poetry, theory—and address urgent issues such as critical ecology, visual media, technopolitics, feminism, aesthetics, and interspecies studies. It champions emerging voices, unpublished works, and the development of a sustainable and autonomous publishing network outside the system.
Instagram: @cielosanto__
Contemporânea began its regular activity in April 2015 as a publisher specialising in contemporary art. Its work includes a digital platform and two print editions per year. It provides a space for thought, critical reflection and the understanding of contemporary artistic creation and the ways in which its practices are situated within a global context.
Its main objective is to promote and disseminate contemporary art produced in Portugal, while also giving space to international perspectives across a range of contemporary artistic practices that encourage debate and critical reflection.
Contemporânea is supported by DGARTES, has a national and international distribution network, and was recently awarded the Editorial Design Prize by the Clube da Criatividade de Portugal (CCP) in 2026.
Instagram: @contemporanea_pt
Delli Press is the publishing platform of DELLI – Design Lusófona Lisboa and the publishing brand that emerges from the pedagogical and experimental work of the Bachelor's Degree in Communication Design at Lusófona University and the Master's Degree in Design – Publishing Futures.
They publish books, experimental editions, essays, archives, editorial prototypes, and research projects that use publication as a method of knowledge acquisition and an active medium for dissemination.
Each publication is born from a process of research, experimentation, and collaboration. It brings together students, teachers, artists, designers, researchers, and communities around issues that permeate the present and imagine possible futures.
Delli Press works at the intersection of design, culture, ecology, technology, archives, food, artificial intelligence, photography, visual arts, and contemporary publishing practices. Each project seeks to explore what a publication can still be: a book, an object, an installation, a performance, an exhibition, a digital platform, or a collective learning device.
Website: delli.pt
Instagram: @dellliusofona
A distributor connected to Snob bookshop, dedicated to very small publishing projects and selected self-published editions. Snob is an independent bookshop founded in Guimarães and now based in Lisbon.
Instagram: @livrariasnob
Malamaña is a home-based publishing workshop dedicated to the handcrafted production of objects and books from the margins of industrial production, always focusing on materiality and the relationship between the object and the reader. Based in the Dominican Republic, it develops a practice that is still uncommon in the country, where the community linked to independent and experimental publishing is very small.
Their purpose stems from the pleasure of creating fanzines, books, and objects, experimenting with different printing techniques and material possibilities, and from there, questioning what a book can be. They seek to inspire others in the Dominican Republic to do the same and contribute to the growth of the independent publishing community.
The workshop operates in a living room, reflecting a small-scale publishing practice without imposed rules or rhythms. Malamaña also works with the translation, appropriation, and experimentation of texts and images, and publishes Dominican authors of a more experimental nature.
Instagram: @malama_n_a
Exemplo Books (2022-) is a publishing house based in Lisbon, founded by architects Diogo da Graça and Roberto Soares, dedicated to publishing projects focused on research in art, architecture, and critical thinking. The publisher proposes a platform where practices can develop in a critical, interdisciplinary, and accessible way, bringing authors, artists, researchers, and readers closer together through books.
The book is understood as a tool for work and research. More than an untouchable or excessively precious object, the book is conceived as an unpretentious object: a medium capable of circulating, being consulted, annotated, and integrated into the processes of thought and knowledge production.
The publisher's publications result from lengthy research processes, often developed in close collaboration with archives, artistic practices, architectural studios, collectives, and independent researchers.
Instagram: @example.books
Fluffer Everyday is a magazine exploring pleasure in the everyday, inspired by personal experiences, kinks, fantasies, and obsessions. A personal project by Greek multidisciplinary visual artist The Dreamer, Fluffer Everyday promotes body and sex positivity while blurring the lines between what is considered sexy and “normal.” Focusing on the moment rather than gender or societal standards, Fluffer Everyday aims to make your day more pleasurable (and naughty) through photographs and stories of everyday people full of lust.
Published annually, each issue explores a specific fetish, bringing together intimate stories and personal experiences from people around the world. Through interviews, photography, and visual experimentation, the magazine invites readers to discover new perspectives on desire, pleasure, and sexual expression. In 2024, The Fluffer Body was launched as a companion zine series, with each issue dedicated to kinks, fantasies, and obsessions inspired by a particular body part. Both Fluffer Everyday and The Fluffer Body are published as limited editions of 1000 numbered copies.
Instagram: @fluffereveryday
Fora de Jogo is the publishing arm of the cultural association of the same name.
Its catalogue focuses on books that explore a range of social, historical, political and cultural processes across different geographies, time periods and scales of reality.
Fora de Jogo is particularly interested in research in the fields of history and the social sciences, while also publishing works across a variety of genres, from poetry and novels to photography and drama, that broaden and deepen this knowledge.
Instagram: @foradejogoac
Gabinete Paratextual is an imaginary collective that understands publishing as a creative problem and is dedicated to questioning the role of each person involved in the production process. It cultivates a fluid relationship between form and content, approaching publishing as a shared space between editors, designers, translators, writers, proofreaders, illustrators and photographers. Production methods, finishes and print runs are active elements, with publishing understood as a phenomenon of continuous rewriting and redesign. Since 2017, Gabinete Paratextual has been published by Rui Silva in direct collaboration with various artists, some certainly alive and others not so much.
Instagram: @gabinete.paratextual
Gerador is a non-profit organisation working across the arts, independent journalism and education. Through artistic initiatives that seek to reach new audiences, a media outlet focused on social inequalities, and educational programmes that foster critical thinking, Gerador aims to contribute to a more critical, creative and participatory society.
Revista Gerador, a magazine published since 2014, is where these principles take printed form. Bilingual, in Portuguese and English, each edition is built around its own theme and visual identity, combining journalistic articles, essays, and original artistic contributions.
The reporting and investigations take months to complete and are carried out by a multidisciplinary team. Gerador understands journalism as a collective practice, not as an individual product.
Instagram: @gerador.eu
GHOST Editions is an independent publishing house founded in Lisbon in 2011 by Patrícia Almeida and David-Alexandre Guéniot. It develops an editorial practice centered on publishing as a space for experimentation, research, and critical thinking, crossing visual arts, photography, design, and performance. Its editorial line prioritizes the construction of visual narratives and reflection on the uses, modes of circulation, and conditions of reception of images.
Notable titles include Lisboa Mesma Outra Cidade (2023 and 2025, 2 vols.), about the urban transformations of Lisbon; Fred (2026), by ska batista, about identity and gender; Today, I am just a butterfly sending you a sentence (2020), an experimental visual essay on political protest; Ma vie va changer (2020), which articulates intimate memory, family experience and contemporary history; The Candidate (2012), about the mechanisms of information construction and political representation; Gente do Vale (2019) about the legacies of Portuguese colonialism and the forms of post-colonial memory construction.
Instagram: @ghost_editions
Greta Edições is the publishing arm of Greta Livraria. Its mission is to give visibility to feminist movements and struggles through book publishing, helping to amplify voices that have historically been marginalised and silenced. It seeks to promote access to diverse feminist perspectives, both by publishing new works and by translating and publishing works by women and non-binary authors in Portugal.
Instagram: @gretaeditora
“GUTS!™ is an offal-forward magazine about the world of hospitality, conceived as a confession booth.” At least, that’s how it’s described online. Physically, GUTS #1 is a 72-page, black-and-white magazine independently edited and printed in Slovenia.
It brings together texts by 30 cooks, bartenders, servers, food writers, butchers and offal enthusiasts from around the world. The first issue was launched in January 2026. The magazine began without any particular mission beyond telling entertaining stories about offal and hospitality. It is a hospitality magazine, created with the help of people working in the industry: half of its 33 contributors still work in the sector today.
The first issue features contributions ranging from Millicent Souris on eating whole crab in Baltimore to Raymond Aquino Macapagal reflecting on the role of bile in Ilocano cuisine.
Instagram: @guts.mag
HÉLICE_press functions as the publishing arm of Hélice, a non-profit cultural association created in 2016 by four photographers. Its main objective was to create spaces for reflection, teaching, curation, and visual creation: an open and accessible studio. The publishing brand was founded in 2021 to materialize this research and experiences into physical publications.
Instagram: @helice_press
HumDrumPress is a project that experiments with publishing as a common good. It produces publications focused on collaboration, organises public gatherings and carries out broader research into publishing in times of permacrisis, maintaining an expanded and experimental editorial practice.
Across all their projects, they work with a bespoke, commons-based publishing model, in an attempt to rethink each stage of the traditional editorial cycle and make their processes as communal, open and polyphonic as possible. They work with methods such as Open Book formats, collective editing, collaborative design, logbooks and open-access publishing, committing to activating the knowledge contained in a publication long before and long after it takes on a material form.
HumDrumPress publish posters, pamphlets, zines, books and more!
Instagram: @humdrum_press
Ideias no Escuro is an archive dedicated to the preservation and reactivation of visual and sound materials in analogue formats. It collects vernacular photographs, home movies, audio reels and other records from flea markets, auctions, donations and urban finds. Once digitised, these materials become the basis for new editorial, cinematic and exhibition projects. Through its publishing house, Ideias no Escuro publishes books, zines, photographic series and films that explore new readings of the archive. It also works in collaboration with artists, researchers and creators, promoting experimentation and the construction of narratives from rediscovered memories.
Instagram: @ideiasnoescuro
Ilhéu is an independent magazine of conversations, art, writing and design, published and produced on the Azorean island of São Miguel. Its second issue sets out in search of Pure Blue, bringing together local and international artists, writers and activists, conversations with Leïla Slimani, Arlete da Silva and Blue Azores, and photography by acclaimed photographers such as Maria Abranches, Sandra Rocha and Andrea Santolaya. Along the way, Ilhéu discovers that blue may be the least pure of all colours: a word that runs through and symbolises some of its most unacceptable desires.
Instagram: @ilheumagazine
An author-led practice spanning twelve years. It began in Chile, later moved to Argentina, and is currently based in Spain. The work centres on creating delirious and sentimental books, combining colourful pop aesthetics, ambiguous existentialism, textures, forms and inventive approaches to experimentation. All of this is shaped by a political and queer perspective.
Instagram: @lafatbordieu
LatimLove is a cross-border platform dedicated to Latin America, positioned at the intersection of research, curation and artistic practices. By dissolving boundaries of language and territory, it acts as a space for reflection on identity, migration and cultural hybridity. Since 2025, it has published an annual bilingual print magazine, bringing together visual and textual narratives that map contemporary Latin American expressions.
Instagram: @latimlove
Livraria das Insurgentes is an intersectional feminist bookstore, created in 2021, dedicated to disseminating themes and texts written by women, trans and non-binary people stigmatized by society and marginalized in the hegemonic publishing market. Its mission is to amplify silenced voices, including those of incarcerated and formerly incarcerated individuals, users of psychoactive substances, sex workers, neurodivergent people, people with disabilities, racialized people, migrants, and refugees.
It aims to promote literature, feminist and LGBTQIA+ theory, with an emphasis on intersectionality, recognizing the importance of thinking about feminism from different dimensions, such as social class, ethnicity, religion, nationality, gender identity, sexual orientation, ableism, among others.
Livraria das Insurgentes was born in Associação Sirigaita and grew, moving through other spaces, such as the Quartel do Largo Residência, until it arrived at Renovar a Mouraria, its home since March 2024.
Instagram: @livrariadasinsurgentes
NOTURNO AZUL is a self-publishing label created by António Jorge Gonçalves, dedicated to publishing books conceived as unique artistic objects. Based on an authorial and independent approach, the project prioritizes small, numbered, and signed editions, where graphic and material care accompanies experimentation between drawing, narrative, and memory. More than a publishing label, NOTURNO AZUL establishes itself as a space for creative freedom, allowing the author—and, more recently, other invited creators—to develop works that explore new relationships between image and word, valuing the book as an aesthetic experience and an object of closeness with readers.
Instagram: @ajg_desenhador
Offie Mag is an independent print publication about independent music and underground culture, based in Brighton & Hove but with readers worldwide.
In 2018, shortly after printing ISSUE ONE — a stapled A5-sized fanzine — he organized an event in Brighton & Hove, hiring DJs and rap artists to perform live. From then on, the events and the magazine became synonymous.
In 2025, they became a quarterly publication. Besides showcasing artists, it highlights and challenges problems in the creative industry. Issue Thirteen , with the theme Nightlife , analyzed the crisis affecting music venues in the United Kingdom, while Issue Seventeen , with the theme Space , criticized safe spaces and the word "community" as a mere cliché.
OFFIE RADIO follows the same principles, providing a platform for local presenters, DJs, artists and other voices.
Instagram: @offlicencemagazine
Oficina do Cego was founded in Lisbon in 2009 by a collective of artists, educators and graphic arts professionals. The non-profit cultural association is dedicated to preserving and teaching traditional printing techniques, including letterpress with movable type, screen printing and engraving. Its name pays tribute to the former XNUMXth-century royal printing house located in Arco do Cego.
Instagram: @oficinadocego
Opuntia Books is an independent publisher founded by André Lemos in 2006, focused on the handmade production of artists’ zines. It has developed a distinctive path of resistance to the commercial market, publishing limited editions by artists whose practices, in one way or another, exist at the margins.
With no restrictions in terms of nationality or artistic technique, Opuntia Books also promotes the work of self-taught artists, art brut practitioners and other singular creative voices.
It already has 64 editions.
Instagram: @opuntiabooks
pink noise press is an independent publishing platform based in London. Pink noise is a sound in which no single frequency dominates, creating a more balanced relationship between frequencies and allowing the quieter ones to become perceptible. Similarly, pink noise press creates space for the subtle and the invisible, not by amplifying what is already noisy, but by paving the way for what might otherwise go unnoticed. Crossing visual arts, performance, text and sound, it approaches publishing as a space for conversation, reflection and sharing.
The inaugural editorial series, Invisible Tapestry, is an ongoing art publication based on interviews, showcasing contemporary artists whose practices, perspectives, and experiences are often overlooked. Each issue pairs in-depth conversations with previously unpublished photographic portraits, with a particular commitment to collaborating with women and queer photographers.
Instagram: @pinknoisepress
PISCINE Magazine is an independent publication showcasing emerging artists, galleries and DIY movements in Glasgow and across Scotland. With a strong love for all forms of print, each issue takes on a different format, creating an amorphous collection of printed matter.
“For PISCINE, print is neither a nostalgic medium in decline nor an opportunity for kitsch imitation. The team treats print as a living, collaborative medium, growing and changing shape as much as Glasgow’s culture itself.” — The Skinny
Instagram: @piscinemag
Praun & Guermouche is a small-scale publishing house based in Stockholm, founded in 2020 by graphic designer Sandra Praun and artist Oscar Guermouche, focused on art, essays, and artist's books. All books are edited, designed, and produced by the publisher itself.
They believe that the way books convey art has an intrinsic value and, as a result, the books they produce reflect and complement the art itself. For the works to fully reveal themselves, they need to be translated into the materiality, spatiality and narrative qualities of the book. In their practice, the possibilities and limitations of the bound book serve as a starting point.
The studio also includes a shop, a library, and an exhibition space, where they organize small exhibitions and talks related to the publications.
Instagram: @praun_guermouche
Facebook: @praunguermouche
A Brazilian visual artist and graphic designer living between Lisbon and São Paulo, with a practice dedicated to print publishing as a space for creation and poetic experience. The material qualities of the book are explored for their narrative potential. Folding, unfolding, touching and opening are gestures that also tell a story, inviting a kinaesthetic reading experience.
This approach runs through publications such as "Na casa deles", a tribute book-object and finalist for the 2021 Jabuti Award in the Graphic Design category, which invites readers to fold and unfold house-shaped pages; and "Travessia" (2022), selected for the artist book collections of the MACBA Library and the Gulbenkian Art Library, as well as for "Minha Biblioteca 2026", a programme of the São Paulo Municipal Department of Education.
Pri Ballarin has participated in fairs dedicated to independent publishing and is the creator of reVOAr, a mobile studio-library devoted to “disobedient books”, publications that challenge the traditional concept of the book. The initiative’s first kit, *Com quantas dobras se faz um livro?* (“How Many Folds Make a Book?”), invites the public to create their own fold-out book, connecting an authorial practice with reVOAr’s mediation work.
Instagram: @pri_ballarin
Instagram: @revoar.atelie.biblioteca
Pseudo Press is a publishing project and bookbindery based in Berlin, founded by Lauria Joan. With a focus on the archival, the ancient, and the apocryphal, Pseudo Press has been alliterating since 2020. Pseudo Press handcrafts and publishes books, zines, and stationery that explore the materiality and history of book-making and book-reading as something communal, precious, and strange.
Instagram: @pseudopress
La Revuelta by Altaveu Jove is a community magazine created as a space for expression, creation and collective thinking led by young people. More than an editorial object, it serves as a tool for bringing people together, a space where different voices, experiences and perspectives take shape through writing, image-making, graphic design and experimentation. The project is rooted in the principles of the social and solidarity economy and a new model of grassroots governance.
The project emerged from the need to create spaces where young people can tell their own stories through their own languages, moving away from external or simplified representations. Each issue brings together processes, concerns and stories connected to territory, identity, culture and the social realities that shape the lives of its participants.
Instagram: @altaveu.jove
Revista Manja (2025) was created as the successor to Inter Magazine (1989), Portugal’s oldest gastronomy magazine, building a new identity without turning away from its editorial history. Published quarterly, Manja is a stylish, unhurried magazine offering an open, curious and contemporary perspective on the worlds of gastronomy and hospitality. Always in print and published in both Portuguese and English, it speaks from Portugal while keeping its eyes firmly open to the world.
Manja draws on the values that guide the wider universe of Edições do Gosto, its publisher, including the sharing and preservation of knowledge, nationwide representation across the whole country, practical approaches to sustainability, intergenerational dialogue, integration, inclusion and equal opportunities, artistic expression as a form of social intervention, and psychological well-being as an essential part of the sector. More than a magazine, Manja is a space for reflection, inspiration and connection between people, knowledge and flavours.
Instagram: @manja_pt
Rizo Masr, founded in 2021, is a contemporary print and design studio based in Maadi, Cairo, specializing in risograph printing and a wide range of design services. In addition to creating posters, fanzines, and brochures, it develops visual identity projects, editorial design, and creative direction, giving shape and expression to different visions and ideas.
Instagram: @rizomasr
By creatively applying cultural policies of content, form and style, while critically examining them to foster literacy, Set Margins’ publications amplify the voices of marginalised cultural agendas.
As a support structure, production platform, network, and publisher, Set Margins frames contemporary impulses with a particular focus on communication, forms of cooperation, and the politics involved. It offers critical experiences, discourse, and dialogue, defending freedoms and building a critical community.
'Set Margins' fosters critical practices with a strong commitment to the voices of the margins.
Instagram: @setmargins
Sorry Press is an independent publishing house based in Munich, Germany. Its catalog covers the areas of literature, architecture, art, and design. They believe in the beauty of the printed object, its content, and its design.
Instagram: @sorry_press
SPILLLL is a creative collective of queer women from East and Southeast Asia (ESEA) that explores how to bring to the table a blend of non-Western heritage, feminism, queer identity, food politics, and marginalized community narratives. They publish an ongoing series of risograph fanzines featuring community discussions from Japan, South Korea, Thailand, and across East and Southeast Asia. The fanzines focus on the food they cook and the table conversations related to their lives as queer ESEA immigrant women, forming an informal solidarity within the community. They currently have Volumes 1-4 of this fanzine series published and are working on Volume 5.
Instagram: @spillll.studio
Stack searches for the best independent magazines and delivers a different publication every month to thousands of readers worldwide. Subscribers never know what they'll receive next, but they know it will be a carefully curated, intelligent publication that they probably wouldn't have discovered otherwise.
Instagram: @stackmagazines
Youtube: @stackmagazines-video
Polaris is a publishing studio born in Japan and based between Tokyo and London. Through publishing, research, and collaborative projects, they explore "Living Wisdom": situated knowledge and cultural practices rooted in border zones and forgotten places around the world.
Polaris Magazine is an independent bilingual (Japanese-English) magazine built around the concept of "Living Wisdom." Through reporting, photography, interviews, visual essays, and research, it reflects on local cultures and perspectives beyond dominant narratives.
They view publishing not as an end in itself, but as a starting point for exhibitions, lectures, education, collaborative research, and social projects. They have collaborated with the Royal College of Art , Central Saint Martins , The Big Issue magazine , and prisons in the United Kingdom, as well as with Musashino Art University in Japan.
The magazine is distributed internationally by Ra & Olly and is available in independent bookstores and cultural spaces in Asia, Europe, and North America. They have presented their work at the Tokyo Art Book Fair , the Taipei Art Book Fair , the magCulture Fair , and Mag to Mag , as well as at exhibitions and lectures in Japan, Taiwan, China, and the United Kingdom.
Instagram: @polaris_magazine
Sud Sud is a publishing house and design studio based in Lisbon, founded by João Flecha and Filipa Oliveira. The project stems from a shared interest in editorial design, books, and printing techniques, exploring publication as a physical, visual, and material object.
The studio develops projects for clients, artists, and self-published editions, paying particular attention to the relationship between content, format, paper, printing, and binding, as well as the preservation and sharing of technical and manual knowledge.
Among its projects is A Thousand Words, a photography magazine in which different authors share the same printed space.
Website: sudsud.pt
Instagram: @sudsud.print
The Summer Hunter is a Brazilian independent media platform founded in 2013, operating in the areas of journalism, print and digital publishing, audio, events, and cultural projects. For over a decade, it has built an engaged community around an editorial approach that combines reporting, essays, photography, and visual storytelling to explore culture, creativity, travel, well-being, cities, and contemporary lifestyles.
The print magazine is one of the most important expressions of this project. Published once a year to mark the arrival of summer in Brazil, it represents a commitment to creating journalism that can be read, saved, shared, and revisited, going beyond the speed and fragmentation of digital platforms.
The most recent edition has 140 pages and a print run of 3000 copies, presented with three different covers. Produced with the care and finishing of a book, it features special embossing on the cover, high-quality paper, original photography, commissioned essays, interviews, and visual narratives.
Instagram: @thesummerhunter
Tipografia do Papeleiro Doido is a collective primarily dedicated to printing and producing multiples. They create posters, artist books and other printed matter, using techniques such as printmaking, stencilling, typography and other more or less alternative methods. They also make their own paper and reuse industrial offcuts.
Instagram: @papeleirodoido
Translator is a new magazine of translated journalism and reportage from around the world, for the open-minded and the language-curious.
Their core team, based in London, collaborates with contributing editors, translators, writers and publishers around the world to curate and translate journalism and non-fiction writing from beyond the Anglosphere, and explore the role of language itself in shaping the world we live in.
Translator gives their readers a wider view of what the world is thinking, saying and writing by platforming the voices and stories of local journalists, writers and others.
Instagram: @troublemakersmag
Troublemakers is a Tokyo-based bilingual (English/Japanese) magazine dedicated to the stories of misfits. Positively (mis)interpreting the word “troublemaker” to describe those who don’t turn a blind eye to social issues, we embrace the role of the troublemaker and set out to meet up with misfits so we can share their personal life stories and help amplify their voices.
Instagram: @troublemakersmag
Founded in Lisbon in 2002, Umbigo is a quarterly art and culture publication dedicated to the development and (re)invention of publishing, research, and curatorial practices. Each issue illustrates a contemporary issue, producing knowledge through art. The magazine includes articles, artist profiles, written and visual essays, an exhibition, commissioned artistic projects, and various sections, including institutional extensions, artists' works, and exhibition notes, as well as two covers and a back cover designed by renowned national and international artists.
Today, as the oldest Portuguese publication dedicated to the cultural sector still in circulation, Umbigo acts as an important driver of the country's cultural ecosystem, establishing itself as a cross-cutting online platform: Umbigo.space.
Instagram: @umbigo.space
under the cover is an unconventional bookstore located in Lisbon, near the Gulbenkian Garden and the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum. They offer a wide selection of international magazines, publications, books, and works of art, carefully chosen to inspire the contemporary reader.
Their publications cover a wide range of topics, from art, fashion, photography, gastronomy, travel, architecture, culture and society to design, literature and music. They are interested in freedom of expression and provocative thinking.
Instagram: @underthecovershop
Vuyazi is an independent feminist magazine based in Lisbon that explores artistic experimentation, emerging cultures and social issues, seeking to provide a platform for voices from Portugal and the wider Portuguese-speaking world. Published in Portuguese and English, the magazine brings together journalism, visual essays, fashion, critical thinking and contemporary editorial practices, with a particular focus on supporting young creative talent in Portugal and increasing the visibility of marginalised communities.
Each issue is built around a central theme and brings together interviews, essays, poetry, photography, fashion editorials and illustrations. The first issue, *PLATONIC*, launched in March 2025, explored friendship as both an intimate and political experience; the second, *DIVINE*, launched in March 2026, examines new forms of faith, spirituality and belief.
In a context dominated by digital media and the constant acceleration of images and information, Vuyazi chooses print as a space for pause, memory and attention. The magazine is driven by a desire to create lasting editorial objects, carefully and intentionally conceived in both content and art direction.
Instagram: @vuyazimagazine
Well Read is an art and design bookstore in Lisbon, Portugal. They promote an environment of critical curiosity, offering fiction and non-fiction books from over 200 independent publishers worldwide.
Instagram: @areyouwellread
17:00
Auditorium
Fair opening
An international fair dedicated to independent publishing, bringing together projects from different countries and editorial contexts. Magazines, books, zines and other printed formats showcase different ways of thinking about, producing and circulating publications, creating a space for exchange between practices, languages and geographies.
Until 21:00 PM.
17:00
First floor, next to the elevator
Opening of the exhibition Made in Oficina
A selection of posters and other printed objects that traces the work developed by Oficina do Cego over the past few years. Founded in Lisbon in 2009 by a collective of artists, educators and graphic arts professionals, this non-profit cultural association is dedicated to preserving and teaching traditional printing techniques, including movable type letterpress, screen printing and printmaking.
Until 21:00 PM. On display until October 18th at 18:30 PM.
17:00
Library Foyer
Opening of the exhibition "Design and Clandestine Production, based on ARMAS DE PAPEL"
This selection of works, drawn from the exhibition ARMAS DE PAPEL – The Ephemera Archive Collection of Underground Press and Publications (1926–1974), curated by José Pacheco Pereira, focuses on the production methods and design of clandestine publications during the Portuguese dictatorship, often shaped by the resources available and by the need to ensure their printing and circulation outside official channels.
Until 21:00 PM. On display until October 18th at 18:30 PM.
18:00
Library
Launch of Revista Gerador 48
This new edition starts from the everyday to examine the gestures, rhythms, and practices that organize daily life . Through journalism, essays, and artistic creation, the new edition questions ways of inhabiting, working, resting, caring, and being with others, seeking to understand how large social structures are also revealed in the discreet and repeated experiences of everyday life.
19:00
Library
Offset Talks: The future of independent publishing
What future is there for independent publishing in a context shaped by rising costs, new forms of circulation and changing reading habits? The conversation brings together different perspectives on publishing, research and editorial practice to explore possible models, persistent vulnerabilities and new ways of sustaining an independent print culture.
Participants include Francisco Laranjo, graphic designer, researcher and editor of Modes of Criticism; Kathleen McCaul, writer and founder of the bilingual magazine Ilhéu; and Flora Santo, journalist, creative director and founder of Vuyazi Magazine.
The conversation is curated and moderated by Under the Cover, an independent bookshop in Lisbon dedicated to magazines, books and international publications, with a carefully selected range focused on contemporary publishing, freedom of expression, and editorial projects that challenge formats and conventions.
22:00
Casa Independente
Drinks at the Print Pause Lisboa resident bar
Independent publishing also happens after hours. Casa Independente keeps Print Pause Lisboa going into the night, creating an informal meeting place for those who publish, those who read, and those who simply want to stick around. There are drinks, music and time for ideas to circulate.
09:30
Coffee Shop
Breakfast
Before the fair opened, we started the day with a breakfast designed as a meeting point between publishers and the public , to chat at leisure, learn about projects, and build connections. Coffee, food, and publications shared the same space on a relaxed morning. The menu:
Yogurt, granola and fruit
Bread and croissants, with butter, jam, cheese and ham.
Scrambled eggs
Homemade cake
Coffee, tea, cappuccino, latte or half-and-half
Juice and water
Breakfast is available on October 17th and 18th. You can register for just one day or both. Participation costs €15 per meal. Payment can be made to Gerador's IBAN: PT50 0035 0041 0000 7917 930 51, sending proof of payment to geral@gerador.eu
10:30
Auditorium
Fair opening
An international fair dedicated to independent publishing, bringing together projects from different countries and editorial contexts. Magazines, books, zines and other printed formats showcase different ways of thinking about, producing and circulating publications, creating a space for exchange between practices, languages and geographies.
Until 21:00 PM.
12:00
Library
Launch of LatimLove Magazine 002
This session will present the second issue of LatimLove, a print magazine dedicated to Latin American thought and art, published in Lisbon. On the cover, Mexican cabaret queen Astrid Hadad stars in an exclusive photo essay by Manuel Zúñiga. A chance to discover the new issue, get a glimpse behind the scenes of the editorial process, and celebrate together.
15:00
Library
From project to publication: the creation of Soft Spot
Soft Spot, by Michalina Kacperak, began as a long-term photographic project before becoming a hybrid book, incorporating zines, drawings, and a short story by the artist's younger sister. This conversation follows the transition from an exhibition project to print , exploring what changes, is lost, or becomes possible when a body of work finds its form as a publication.
17:00
Library
Launch of the book “A Ligeira Dificuldade de Ser Espanhol & A Fatal Tristeza de Ser Português”
A book that looks at travel guides as objects of cultural and political construction. Drawing on publications about Portugal and Spain from the 1930s to the 1980s, it brings together tourism propaganda, satire and stereotypes to examine how tourism helped shape national images that still persist in everyday life.
Mário Moura is a critic of design, art and culture, and a lecturer at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto, as well as a researcher at i2ADS. He writes regularly about design and is the author of several books, including Design em Tempos de Crise, O Design Que o Design Não Vê and Páginas Inquietas. He has worked as a magazine editor and exhibition curator for institutions and events including Serralves, the Maia Biennial and the Porto Design Biennale.
Rui Silva is a graphic designer and lecturer whose practice focuses on books and publishing. He regularly collaborates with publishers such as Antígona, Orfeu Negro and Dafne, and holds a PhD with the thesis A condição de ser livro: o livro como artefacto e a publicação como prática artística. In 2018, he founded Gabinete Paratextual, an experimental laboratory dedicated to the critical exploration of design through publishing.
17:00
Floor -1, Room 1
Cold Type & Hot Politics: feminis graphic production before the Internet
Before the Internet, making a magazine meant bringing people, materials and techniques together in the same space. Drawing on the history of feminist graphic production, this session combines a presentation with exercises in manual composition, transfer lettering and other pre-digital practices. An opportunity to explore the material and collective processes that shaped independent publishing culture before the shift to digital.
18:00
Floor -1, Room 1
An Experiment Towards Publishing as a Commons
What tools, processes and tactics can make publishing more accessible and better integrated into a commons-based ecosystem? Drawing on the research project Expansive Publishing Strategies, HumDrumPress proposes a collective session to map and exchange real, imagined and speculative practices. Manifestos, open-book formats and other tools provide a starting point for experimenting with more sustainable and collaborative publishing methodologies.
18:00
Library
Living Wisdom from Japan’s Borderlands
Drawing on research conducted across five regions of Japan, this session reflects on forms of knowledge embedded in local cultures, everyday practices and personal narratives that are often overlooked by dominant discourses. Moving between folklore, wolf worship and the life of a fish market, it brings together research, film and editorial materials to consider what different forms of belonging, relationships with nature and knowledge can teach us today.
19:00
Library
Offset Talks: Small publishers, big problems?
What does it mean to publish on a small scale when the problems are rarely small? This conversation reflects on the practical challenges of sustaining independent publishing projects: from production to sustainability, from choosing formats to circulation. A conversation about limits, detours and possibilities, drawing on practices that make small scale an editorial position.
Participants include Dois Dias edições, a project working between art and literature that has been developing its own publishing models since 2011; and Pierrot Le Fou, an independent micro-publisher dedicated to photography, with a practice spanning publishing, design and curatorship.
The conversation is curated and moderated by Matéria Prima, an independent space in Porto dedicated to music, publishing and contemporary culture, with a carefully selected range of publications, experimental projects and author-led work that often find little space in mainstream commercial circuits.
22:00
Casa Independente
Presentation of the book Putas à moda do Porto - Ensaio Vadio
Written by Raúl Simões Pinto at the beginning of this century, Putas à Moda do Porto – Ensaio Vadio returns in a new edition illustrated by Hugo Oliveira. The project was born from the desire to revisit this classic of Porto literature through drawing and to expand the experience of the original work. Self-published and independent, the edition brings together dozens of illustrations created specifically to accompany the text.
22:30
Casa Independente
Drinks at the Print Pause Lisboa resident bar
Independent publishing also happens after hours. Casa Independente keeps Print Pause Lisboa going into the night, creating an informal meeting place for those who publish, those who read, and those who simply want to stick around. There are drinks, music and time for ideas to circulate.
09:30
Coffee Shop
Breakfast
Before the fair opened, we started the day with a breakfast designed as a meeting point between publishers and the public , to chat at leisure, learn about projects, and build connections. Coffee, food, and publications shared the same space on a relaxed morning. The menu:
Yogurt, granola and fruit
Bread and croissants, with butter, jam, cheese and ham.
Scrambled eggs
Homemade cake
Coffee, tea, cappuccino, latte or half-and-half
Juice and water
Breakfast is available on October 17th and 18th. You can register for just one day or both. Participation costs €15 per meal. Payment can be made to Gerador's IBAN: PT50 0035 0041 0000 7917 930 51, sending proof of payment to geral@gerador.eu
10:30
Auditorium
Fair opening
An international fair dedicated to independent publishing, bringing together projects from different countries and editorial contexts. Magazines, books, zines and other printed formats showcase different ways of thinking about, producing and circulating publications, creating a space for exchange between practices, languages and geographies.
Until 18:30
12:00
Floor -1, Room 1
Publications as Love Letters
Drawing on Pseudo Newsletter and other projects sent by post, the session explores letter-mail zines as a community-building practice. Through envelope formats, postal constraints and concrete examples, it considers how sending printed matter across distances can create bonds, communities and lasting relationships with readers.
15:00
Library
Presentation of the book Exocapitalism
The book Exocapitalism starts from the idea that capitalism is not socially constructed, does not depend on the human social field, and does not operate as an ideology. Exocapitalism is presented as an algorithmic germ, a mode of thought capable of inhabiting human form, a bacterial colony, or silicon.
The conversation starts from the book’s central mechanism. Lift describes capitalism’s tendency to move away from fixed costs, the ground, the land and the sphere of human affairs. It can be understood as a negative definition of financialisation, describing a movement away rather than towards: a kind of aversion, rejection or escape embedded in the algorithmic logic itself.
From there, the conversation examines how a data centre can generate capital before it is even built, and how the promise of artificial intelligence rests on a logic of permanent transition.
17:00
Library
Offset Talks: The challenges of distributing independent publications
How do independent publications reach readers when distribution, scale and sustainability do not always work in their favour? The conversation draws on two international experiences to discuss circulation models, relationships between publishers, shops and audiences, and strategies that can help small publications cross borders.
Bella Robathan manages the magCulture shop in London, which is dedicated to independent magazines. She has been part of the team since January 2025, after completing a master’s degree in History of Art at the Courtauld Institute. Since then, she has organised conferences in London and New York, worked on pop-ups at Selfridges and MHL., and coordinated the first edition of the magCulture Fair, hosted by Pentagram. She has also appeared on Monocle’s The Stack podcast and BBC Radio 4’s Today programme.
Steven Watson is the founder of Stack, an independent magazine club that sends a different publication each month to thousands of readers around the world. Subscribers never know which magazine will arrive next, but they know they will receive a carefully made, intelligent publication that they probably would not have discovered otherwise.
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