Dutch Presence at LA Art Book Fair

Thu, May 15 - Sun, May 18  2025

ArtCenter College of Design, Pasadena, CA

From May 15 until 18, the eighth edition of the LA Art Book Fair takes place at ArtCenter College of Design, 9 Dutch publishers will participate.

Building Fictions

Building Fictions (BF) is an Amsterdam-based publishing imprint exploring ‘building’ as a methodology. Through collaborative work, BF investigates the potential of storytelling within projects at the intersection of art, design, architecture, and literature.

Disengineering Society

The Disengineering Society is a hardware hacking collective and a publisher of educational materials. Their textbooks reimagine educational literature through idiosyncratic construction and site-specific applications. Disengineering’s publications go hand-in-hand with their widely offered hardware-hacking workshops that emphasize chaos, destruction, electronic screeches, and a devout commitment to combating “planned obsolescence.”

Knust/Extrapool

Knust’s graphic workspace and shop is located in the artist-run organization Extrapool in Nijmegen, Netherlands. Knust is highly specialized in stencil printing which started in 1984 with Roneo’s, and nowadays a A3/A2 riso with over forty colors and binding facilities. We print with graphic artists in residency, DIY and commissioned.

Roots to Fruits

Roots to Fruits is an independent publisher and seasonal magazine dedicated to exploring decolonial sounds. Based in Amsterdam since 2019, it facilitates intergenerational and decolonial dialogue by publishing overlooked archival material, making unknown works available to new and expanded audiences.

Set Margins’ publications

Creatively applying the cultural politics of content, form, and style whilst critically dissecting these to spark literacy, Set Margins’ publications enforces the voices of marginalized cultural agendas.

SM Books (Robin Waart)

SM books makes publications that attempt to stand for themselves, creating paper worlds that draw viewers-readers into new ways of experiencing print media. Self-Made is one of multiple readings the acronym allows. SM books is the publishing project of Robin Waart.

The Eriskay Connection

The Eriskay Connection is a Dutch studio for book design and an independent publisher. We focus on contemporary storytelling at the intersection of photography, research, and writing.

Valiz, books and projects

Valiz is an independent international publisher that addresses contemporary developments in art, design, urban affairs, and visual culture. Our books offer critical reflection and interdisciplinary inspiration in a broad-based and imaginative way, often establishing a connection between art, cultural disciplines, and socio-economic questions.

Werkplaats Typografie

Werkplaats Typografie is a graphic design masters program centred on assignments and self-initiated projects with lectures, meetings, and readings geared towards self-accountable and independently motivated work and research. WT publishes and distributes outcomes by participants through various channels including international book fairs, presentations, and book launches, as well as their website.

Fair Hours

Thursday, May 15
Opening Night
6–9pm, $30

Friday, May 16
11am–1pm, Preview (registration required)
1–7pm, $5

Saturday, May 17
11am–7pm, $5

Sunday, May 18
11am–1pm, Mask Required Hours (free registration)
1 –5pm, Free