51 Personae is a self-sustaining independent art publishing project, believing that publishing is both an urgent and valid artistic practice. It places special emphasis on life experiences in Asia and the Third World, as well as marginalized voices under suppression, exploring the contemporary forms, possibilities and potential of “realism” in art as expressive actions.
A. T. Pratt is an artist, professor and paper engineer from NYC who writes, draws, and self-publishes comics, zines, art books, and more, often including handmade special features like pop-ups, fold-outs and innovative binding techniques. He teaches comics and self-publishing at Montclair State University and School of Visual Arts.
My name is Ah Guan. I have worked in animation, graphic design, and illustration. I am also the founder of Messy Desk Studio, my personal studio for illustration and designer toy projects. My work focuses on hand-drawn and handmade styles. I mix different Western art influences with Malaysian Chinese culture to create a unique visual language. My toys often have a strange and slightly weird feeling, but they also carry a sense of humor and innocence.
Ajim Juxta is a visual artist based in Kuala Lumpur. He works mainly on abstract paintings and surrealism drawings depicting dystopian world and its inhabitants. He is also a designer and lyricist working with creatives from other fields.
Albert Raqueño is a Manila-based visual artist and illustrator working primarily in live portraiture and painting. His practice is shaped by drawing people from life, often in art markets and community events across the Philippines. These encounters inform a growing body of work that explores memory, place, and the act of looking closely.
AMAO is a Shanghai-based multidisciplinary artist who graduated from Osaka University of Arts. Her work spans illustration, motion design, and VR artwork. Years of living and working in Japan have shaped her artistic style. Her style is colourful and fun. Her illustrations and animations examine reality, capturing the essence of contemporaneity with a voyeuristic gaze, yet always with a touch of fantasy and liveliness that sets her apart.
A place for the thoughts that won’t stay quiet. It is not here to fix you, save you, or turn pain into something pretty. It exists for the feelings we suppress, the wounds we live with, and the truth we are too tired to keep hiding. This is crafted confession.
Aresha Reza is a multidisciplinary artist and designer based in Petaling Jaya, Malaysia, working across graphic design, photography, and typography. She uses sampah (trash) and discarded items as her muse, experimenting with different mediums and raw materials to give overlooked waste new form. Her work delves into climate anxiety and local symbolism, reimagining what we discard as a lens for reflection on identity and place.
Launched in early spring 2026, “artificial flavors” is a home-based risograph printing press run by Ngoc Vo. The press focuses fully on creating zines, art prints, and collaborative projects that cooperate Risograph with other art practices to translate subconscious fragments of everyday human interaction and observation into visual explorations and sensory experiences.
Bang Bang Zine is a KL-based zine brand and risograph print store exploring storytelling through illustration and print. Founded in 2017, BBZ creates art prints, merch, workshops and artist collaborations through its Zinemate publishing project. As part of the risograph studio Inkink Der, BBZ continues to grow as a platform for creative sparks through print and beyond.
Basheer Graphic Books is a bookstore that specialises in fine art, digital media, graphic design, and architecture publications.
Betty is a multidisciplinary artist based in Malaysia, working primarily in illustration, as well as graphic design and tattoos. Her illustrations are introspective reflections on identity, self-perception, and emotion, expressed through bold colours, characters, and intricate patterns. Deeply inspired by traditional Chinese art, she reinterprets its essence with a contemporary flair, telling stories that feel both personal and rooted in her culture.
Binatang Press thinks about how everyday people look at things. We are interested in how people see, tend to, and find meaning in the objects, spaces, and cultures around them. These are the things that quietly shape who we are. Our books and zines are visual-driven by design. Through visual language, each publication becomes not just a collectible object, but a way to expand perspectives and keep collective memory alive.
Book and Fun is an independent art space hidden in an art community that was once an old factory building. The space zealously discovers uncommon books and illustration. Composed of four connected rooms, the space reserves the old house’s rugged floor, worn stairs, and water gauges. Art books, indie music, drawing exhibitions are just among the numerous possibilities in this space less than 20 square meters large.
Cahyati Press is an independent publisher and book salon based in Bali, Indonesia. Founded in 2022, we publish books, zines, and printed matter that champion queer, feminist, and underrepresented voices. Beyond publishing, we organize readings, workshops, exhibitions, and community gatherings that treat books as catalysts for conversation, connection, and collective imagination. Guided by a belief in textual delight for all, Cahyati Press is committed to making thoughtful, beautifully designed publications while supporting emerging writers, artists, and cultural practitioners through sustainable and community-centered publishing practices.
Chili Bawang is a supper club and food design studio founded by Stewart Ooi and Yixuan Kuik, a duo from the creative and event industries. We explore food as a cultural medium, with a particular interest in vernacular knowledge, memory, and storytelling. Through meals, publications, and participatory experiences, we love creating spaces where conversations begin around the table.
Chillsday Club is an independent curated lifestyle store established in Kuala Lumpur in 2024. Rooted in nearly two decades of the founder’s experience in the local streetwear and creative scene, the brand brings together clothing, books, accessories, and carefully selected objects inspired by music, film, design, and contemporary culture.
ConcretePaper believes reading is an act of thinking — not merely scanning words, but pausing to reflect. We craft books where text, paper, and image work together as a unified structure, creating an experience that engages not just sight and touch, but all the senses at once. Our aim is to move beyond what is passively consumed through media, and draw readers into direct, embodied experience. From that encounter, we hope each reader discovers their own way of reading — and closes the book with a world that feels a little wider than before.
As a freelance artist running a personal studio based in Wuhan, I take real‑life experiences as my core creative source. I continuously explore the intimate bond between illustration and daily life. My main medium is handmade three‑dimensional zines. Inspired by everyday moments, I produce interactive zines depicting ordinary scenes, together with hand‑bound artworks made of mixed‑media materials.
Death of Typography (DOT) is a young Singaporean type collective practicing at the intersection of community, culture, and typographic experimentation. We build platforms for emerging designers to publish typefaces, design lessons for non-designers to make letters, and create spaces for honest conversations about design to take shape through type. Through our foundry, Font Incubation Programme, experimental workshops, and community publishing, DOT turns participation into print.
Based in Tokyo, Deeelay Manners is an experimental project and culture magazine helmed by editor and writer Masaya Yamawaka. Treating the printed page as our playground, we dive deep into the delightfully slow, quirky, and unconventional rhythms of modern life. Part archive, part editorial experiment, we explore culture with a sharp eye, a warm heart, and just the right amount of creative mischief.
Deeplii Art was founded by Malaysian illustrator Jiayee and graphic designer Wenhan, focusing on mascot creation and illustration works. They are passionate about creating engaging mascots and nostalgic illustrations, aiming to connect with people through each creation.
Deniz Beser is a multidisciplinary artist, independent publisher, and curator based between Vienna and Istanbul. His practice focuses on zines, artist books, illustration, and experimental publishing. He is the founder of Heyt be! Fanzin and the director of Fanzineist Vienna Art Book & Zine Fair.
Kampung Detective that love to investigate about B40 random cases.
Based in Macau, Dialect 方言社 is an independent arts collective and platform dedicated to contemporary photography, visual culture, and independent print media. Founded in 2017, the collective’s members are active creators who extensively self-publish their own works. As a platform, Dialect aims to invigorate the local scene by organizing art book fairs, small scale intimate exhibitions, and workshops that connect local and international voices. By combining individual publishing practices with community curation, Dialect brings Macau’s unique visual narratives to the global indie scene.
E Merlin Murray is an independent artist and self-publisher whose practice centres on drawing as a physical, book-based medium. He produces handmade artist books, prints, zines and animations that explore imagined histories, ritual, architecture and transformation. Each publication is designed as an artwork in its own right, reflecting a fascination with paper, sequencing and the tactile experience of printed matter.
RM is an independent, prestigious publisher focusing primarily on photography and contemporary art. RM currently has offices in Spain and Mexico and with more than 500 titles by or about writers and artists of international stature such as Frida Kahlo, Leonora Carrington, Graciela Iturbide, Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Martin Parr, Julio Cortázar, Luis Barragán, Diego Rivera, Masao Yamamoto, Juan Rulfo, Jeff Wall and Pablo Ortiz Monasterio among others.
I’m a Tokyo based graphic designer working across print and graphic media. Using silkscreen and risograph techniques, I create works on paper and textiles. My work often explores motifs of plants and flowers, alongside an ongoing interest in the relationship between spoken and written language.
Emily Liu is an illustrator, zine maker, and graphic designer from Taiwan. She has produced handmade books, pop-up books, and printed works based on interactive concepts. She independently publishes experimental zines, combining illustration and graphic design concepts, exploring possibilities for artistic presentation.
Extensive is the independent publishing line of COPYRIGHT/RESERVED experimental design studio. Rooted in fine art, we approach design not as problem-solving, but as a space to raise questions, express, and celebrate. Extensive comes from our ongoing commitment to (E)xperiment—expanding thoughts, forms, and collaborations beyond fixed outcomes. We see publishing as an open field: a place for ideas, resistance, gestures, and states of being to coexist.
Freakie X-Lab is a worldbuilding initiative by Studio Cipsi, set in an alternative timeline, a world without World Wars, without major geopolitical conflicts, yet facing a global ecological collapse caused by extreme resource exploitation. Within this world, Freakie X-Lab serves as a planetary scientific institution responsible for developing Freakie Gen, bio-engineered organisms designed to restore damaged ecosystems.
Further Reading approaches publishing as an ongoing practice of research, conversation, and exchange. Based in Bandung, Indonesia, it works across editorial projects, public programming, in-house risograph production, and a carefully curated international distribution network. Through books, periodicals, workshops, exhibitions, and reading spaces, it connects Southeast Asian perspectives with wider global conversations, treating publishing as something that extends beyond the printed page.
George-san is an original character created by Chinese illustrator YAM. With a tiny head, a chubby body, and a shiny bald head, George-san is an office worker who always looks serious—but his mind is full of little stories. We create illustrations, publications, and everyday goods around George-san, bringing him beyond the page and into daily life.
glooth is an illustrator whose work dwells in the interstice between melancholy and tenderness.
We are Grafis Nusantara, a platform dedicated to archiving vintage Indonesian labels and stickers – presenting the archipelago’s lavish visuals and their significance as knowledge and reference materials. Grafis Nusantara caters as a space to give Indonesian vintage visuals chances to be appreciated. Furthermore, easy access to social media and digital archives opens up new opportunities to collect more Indonesian graphic artefacts through social curation.
Grimmy Granny, a creative venture born from the imaginative minds of two sisters who share a passion for graphic design and illustration. With a unique twist, their artwork draws inspiration from the whimsical conversations that pepper their daily lives, conversations brimming with absurdity and playful banter. Through their artistic expressions, they’ve discovered an intriguing paradox: while real life often imposes limits, the canvas of their drawings knows no boundaries.
“Guidebooks from Your Future Friends” — GUYDES is a series by Junsuke Takeda, based in Onomichi, Hiroshima, Japan. Each issue is a letter from a local artist who might just become your next friend — a guidebook that connects you to the city through the people who live there. Printed in small batches via risograph, inkjet, and occasionally offset, then hand-bound with care.
Hai rembulan (she/her) is a self-taught multi-diciplinary artist, zine maker and creative worker from Indonesia. She used hai rembulan as a moniker name to serves her as a home for her works of art and handicrafts. Since 2013, hai rembulan has been actively producing art and zines-she has made more than 70 zines to date. She describes her work as a vessel for dreams and everyday life, often exploring themes related to women’s experiences, such as menstruation, and sexuality.
HASURISO is a Risograph experience centre and creative platform founded by TSUBAKI STUDIO KL in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Established with the belief that “Everyone Can Do RISO,” HASURISO was created to make Risograph printing more accessible to designers, artists, students, and the public. Beyond being a print studio, it serves as a space for experimentation, education, and creative exchange through workshops, exhibitions, collaborations, and independent publishing projects.
Hey Hello Helli (HHH) is a creative brand by visual artist Ling, exploring everyday life through photobooks, prints, zines, and small art goods. Combining photography, design, and printed matter, each project transforms ordinary observations into playful visual stories that encourage people to slow down, connect, and appreciate the beauty hidden in the moments.
Holistic House is a personal brand where visual creation merges with everyday life as a practical tool. At the same time, it is an independent, virtual space—where nothing happens by chance and everything is interconnected. Nothing is a coincidence.
Vanissa Foo is a Kuala Lumpur–based graphic designer and illustrator, founder of Humana Studio and creator of her artistic persona “Humana”. Drawing inspiration from geometry and bold colors, she transforms everyday scenes into vibrant, whimsical worlds.
huruf is a type and design collective that seeks to encourage awareness of and discourse on typography in Malaysia. huruf has developed projects that investigate vernacular typography, local typographic heritage and multilingualism. Working at the intersection of design and pedagogy, huruf is active in organising workshops and talks to facilitate knowledge exchange among type enthusiasts.
Founded in 2015, ILHAM is a public art gallery committed to supporting the development, understanding, and enjoyment of modern and contemporary art. Our rotating programme of exhibitions reflects our commitment to connecting with diverse artistic practices in the region and beyond, to building relationships with like-minded partners, and to fostering meaningful conversations around contemporary issues of our time.
We are a publishing company based in Kyomachibori, Osaka. We produce IN/SECTS, a local culture magazine that explores various “spectacles” found in everyday life, with themes such as Our Time, School Refusal, Making and Selling Books, and Housework.
Initial A Press is the publishing arm of Initial A, a personal creative initiative exploring visual identity, editorial design, illustration, and fiction writing. It exists as a space to make and share work outside of client boundaries: zines, short story collections, card decks, and other printed formats that sit somewhere between design object and personal expression.
Inkling Studio is an independent publisher and Risograph studio based in Penang, Malaysia, founded by artists Zhao Hong Low and Shin Chi. Specializing in Risograph printing, the studio collaborates with artists, writers, and designers to produce zines, comics, artist books, and experimental printed matter. Through publishing and printmaking, Inkling champions independent storytelling, creative collaboration, and alternative approaches to publishing.
Izzy & ZUOlab is an art collective composed of Izzy Li and Zuo Na. Their most familiar medium are Photography, Collage, and artists’ handmade books. Their photography works and handmade books have been exhibited at art book fairs and festivals both domestically in Mainland China and internationally.
J Renz Barrios is a Filipino writer, artist, and traveler whose work explores the intersections of memory, place, and food. A memory collector at heart, he finds inspiration in the quiet stories that shape everyday life, believing that travel is not merely about visiting new places but about embracing curiosity, whimsy, and wonder.
Jenny Wu is an independent illustrator whose work centers on dreamscape and healing. She explores emotional narratives and personal growth through soft surrealistic imagery and symbolic compositions, creating visual spaces between reality and the subconscious. Her practice translates everyday emotions and inner experiences into restrained yet evocative visual language, reflecting vulnerability and resilience in coexistence.
Ji Xiang is a registered architect, freelance photographer, and artist. His practice focuses on the traces of change and temporality in everyday life, investigating the semantic shifts between 3D space and 2D representation. He treats the photographic record as a projection of self-experience into the environment. Recently, his work has explored the interaction between nature and human intervention, alongside the fluidity of geography and identity.
Yap Jiaern is an artist based in Kuala Lumpur, with a passion for graphic design and illustration. Her work spans across corporate projects, personal art zines, magazine and book publishing. Jiaern’s commitment to storytelling finding its purest form in her artworks. Through themes like ocean waves and fleeting fragments of memory, her art showcases moment of stillness and reflection.
At JZZP, we aim to build a platform that supports independent Chinese artists in freely expressing their ideas through art. In addition to photobooks and artists’ books, we have recently expanded into text-based publications that reflect our ongoing interest in the intersection of image and reality—particularly within the context of China.
Based in Taiwan, Jily is an illustrator and book artist with professional expertise in specialized printmaking. Utilizing tactile techniques like letterpress, hot foil stamping, and deep embossing, she translates traditional Taiwanese textures—such as temple stone carvings and mythical roof guardians—into physical paper forms. Guided by the symbols of Eastern metaphysics, her practice materializes the intangible cosmos into entirely handcrafted publications.
Ken is an independent artist from Kuala Lumpur working across illustration and sound. His practice focuses on digital drawing and printed matter, exploring mutated forms informed by Eastern folklore, Chinese ink painting, and psychedelic aesthetics. Alongside his visual practice, he creates experimental electronic music influenced by leftfield electronic and tribal ambient music, extending the same interest in atmosphere, rhythm, and transformation across sound.
Kaibyo explores the space between the seen and unseen — the alam mithal, the imaginal realm where forms take shape. Drawing on Islamic cosmology, Malay folklore, and Solomonic imagery, each piece is presented as a recovered artefact, complete with field notes and catalogue entries. The work spans illustration, print, zines and 3D-printed objects.
KaleidoscopeStore is dedicated to providing a platform for artists to share their work, uniting artists to bring their art into everyday life.
Kape Mart is an independent bookstore and cultural platform based in Bandung, Indonesia, specializing in zines, artist books, independent publications, and community-driven merchandise. Rooted in DIY culture, graffiti, and contemporary visual arts, Kape Mart aims to foster cultural exchange and provide a space for independent voices from Southeast Asia and beyond.
Kinchoi Lam is an artist, picture book creator, and zinemaker based in Hong Kong. He has published picture books and zines in both Hong Kong and the UK. He is the winner of Bologna Illustrators Exhibition 2026.
KIND OF SUMMER is an artist-led photography and publishing brand founded by Seoul-based photographer Sunha Hwang. Since 2017, the studio has explored “Nature Portraits,” documenting encounters with plants and natural subjects as individual beings. These photographic works are expanded into artist books, hand-bound notebooks, prints, postcards, fragrances, and sensory objects.
Koorsiiii is a found-object project dedicated to chairs; its name comes from the Indonesian word “kursi.” It started with a simple practice: photographing chairs encountered in everyday spaces that felt visually or emotionally compelling. Through Koorsiiii, we document and celebrate chairs found in the wild in all their forms. And that’s about it, we are all things chairs.
Krismaz Letters is a Malaysia-based calligraphy artist dedicated to the art of Gothic and Dark-style lettering. Driven by the raw power of ink on paper, the work focuses on delivering a primal, high-contrast visual experience that strips calligraphy down to its most impactful form. Specialized in intricate layouts and bold, aggressive scripts, Krismaz Letters aims to showcase the unfiltered aesthetic of hand-inked artistry. Visitors can expect a collection of works where tradition meets a dark, modern edge.
Langsuyar Press is a publisher and distributor of art books, zines, booklets, chapbooks, postcards, art prints, stickers, and other original works. We are committed to supporting Malaysian writers, artists, and other creative practitioners, and while we publish and distribute work across all genres, we are especially enthusiastic about keeping Malaysia’s folktales, myths, legends and fairytales alive by retelling and reimagining these traditional stories in myriad forms and styles.
Self-taught artist from Malaysia.
Libro Arte is an independent publisher founded in Tokyo in 2008. We have published many books, mainly on photography. We support the publication and exhibition of photobooks by promising photographers both in Japan and overseas. We actively participate in book fairs in Paris, Amsterdam, Geneva and China. Recently, we have started distributing overseas photobooks and introducing them in Japan.
LIE is an acronym of Little Ideas Everyday, an independent graphic design studio based in Kuala Lumpur.
Ling Doh Kin is a travel photographer and award-winning writer. Since leaving corporate life in 2009, he has travelled to more than 50 countries, documenting local cultures and fleeting human encounters. He is the founder of Bigfoottraveller.com, an online travel magazine that encourages readers to venture farther and see the world with curiosity.
That Little Self is the version of ourselves who walks freely in pyjamas, stepping out for a stroll. Like an elf in every Self’, she plays, wanders, and discovers. To be an elf is our namesake and our nature; it’s right there in our S “elves”. She hums her own melodies, drifting in the rhythm of her world – simply sharing her journey, her tale. She’d whisper: ‘Even for just a while, let’s play again! With your Little Self.’
LOST is a magazine about self-discovery through travel. It is a magazine that features real stories, personal reflections and epiphanies from people around the world. It believes that travel isn’t about fancy hotels or tourist destinations, but about immersing oneself in someplace entirely foreign to feel extremely uncomfortable so that one can learn from it. It believes that travel is a state of mind.
Est. 2020, Lostprints Community is a self-initiated extension of Lostgens’, dedicated to preserving the art of letterpress and centuries old equipment inherited from the community. serving as a voice of print to the public by creating artworks based in printmaking.
Creative throw up of what goes on in my head and my imagination. What revolves around my career, interest and life, a blend of how all these aspects come together as a visualisation of my thought process.
An award-winning publisher of Best Book Design in Korea, working on contemporary matters of art, city, and design. Titles include artists’ books and visual narrative archives. They seek to reflect the relationship between contemporary art and cities through the artist-driven series projects “Closing Ceremony” & “Art by Art”. Founded in 2022 as an imprint of the design studio Graphicabulary, based in Seoul and London.
Artist friends who are taking their company annual leave to explore and gain new experiences in Kuala Lumpur.
Mearvae is a visual artist who explores human emotions, connections, and memories through printmaking, illustration, and the creation of artist books and zines. Her work often incorporates shared elements, such as collected stories or personal experiences, in order to connect with universal emotions. She understands art as a form of silent dialogue, one in which materials, paper, ink, and texture communicate in ways that words sometimes cannot.
Founded in 2022, Mi Spacium Culture is one of the few local bookstores that specializes in art books. We share books on performing arts, visual arts, design, music, film, and cultural studies with the public. Through our bookstore platform, we share art with like-minded people and bring people closer together.
Founded in 2011, MOKA MOCHA INK is a multidisciplinary production company led by Nurul Aizam and Ridhwan Saidi. This cross-disciplinary approach shapes experimental narratives like Pengalaman Prangin, a site-specific roving performance in George Town, and Teater Normcore: Odisi Romansa, a post-human sci-fi play.
Money Wang is an artist based in Malaysia, graduated from Central Saint Martins with a degree in textile design. His practice is driven by experimentation and a playful, process-oriented approach to making. Rooted in prints and textiles, Money’s work has expanded beyond two-dimensional surfaces into wearable accessories and object-based outcomes.
MY XIAOXIAO Studio focuses on visual experimentation grounded in social and cultural narratives. The studio is run by STUDIO KEKFENG, specializing in visual identities and event key visuals.
Nadhir Nor is an illustrator based in Kuala Lumpur. From mythology to human intimacy, each of his work aims to shine on the intricate thread between the unspoken and the outer world. Letting fantastical world-building take center stage, Nadhir’s subjects are allowed to find safe space in existing while also hiding between what’s fiction and imaginary.
Neue Sans Press is a home for printed matter. Pronounced like “nuisance,” the practice embraces the inconveniences embedded in independent publishing and Risograph printing.
NEUTRAL COLORS is an independent publisher, it is also the name of the magazine it publishes, as well as the name of the bookbinding company. The three are organically connected. The publishing style of NEUTRAL COLORS is to have a small group of people getting together to handle everything from printing, and binding to distribution.
New Naratif is a community-driven organisation that serves as a platform for Southeast Asian voices; we educate, engage, and empower people with the knowledge and skills to take collective action. With a focus in “storytelling,” we have adapted our organisation’s outputs from audiovisual media, research publications, and capacity-building workshops to foster a platform that amplifies and nurtures Southeast Asian voices. We aim to embrace the many modes of stories through various artistic and literary practices as an instrument for community-building amongst Southeast Asians.
NIDOU is an art and cultural collective founded in Shenzhen, China, in 2024. Inspired by everyday cycling, the collective creates paper-based artist publications and zines, playful art installations, and handmade goods rooted in bicycle culture. Through publishing, making, and experimentation, NIDOU invites people to explore the many possibilities of cycling culture—both on the road and beyond.
Nnene.iie is an illustrator and graphic designer based in Bangkok, Thailand. Her work explores everyday visual culture through distinctive compositions that combine drawing, handwritten text, typography, and lettering. Working primarily with black pen on paper, she creates intricate works inspired by objects, plants, and environments encountered in daily life. Through her work, she seeks to reveal the subtle beauty, complexity, and visual rhythm embedded within ordinary surroundings and everyday experiences.
Hello! I’m Sajiya, an illustrator and graphic designer from India. My work blends vibrant color with touches of surrealism, creating whimsical illustrations inspired by nature. I especially enjoy drawing hands and florals, using them as recurring motifs to explore themes of growth, connection, and imagination
OLI is a believer in the inner child, because growing up doesn’t mean growing old. She turns life’s little intricacies into colourful, offbeat creations, filled with a captivating blend of bizarre imagination and morbid optimism, shaped by delicate lines and bursting colours.
Iban Woman is an independent publishing practice by Iban writer and artist Olivia JD. Through poetry, essays, and graphite illustration, she creates self-published books and zines that explore Iban cultural heritage, identity, memory, and everyday life. Her work preserves traditional knowledge while bringing Iban and Borneo cultural stories to contemporary readers.
Parking Lot Press is a Thai publishing collective formed by four designers and illustrators who share a deep love for printed matter. Together, we explore storytelling through zines, experimental formats, and collaborative design, creating works that celebrate the playful nature of print. Much of our work is rooted in Thai culture and subculture, reinterpreting local narratives and everyday observations.
Pass The Peas, an independent brand from Bandung with a unique focus on publishing international popular music articles. The concept of using fanart or tribute as a medium of expression is interesting and adds a creative touch to the appreciation of musicians and music genres. Pass The Peas is contributing not just as a fan-driven platform but also as a source of knowledge and entertainment.
PEARS is an Indonesian-based independent publication. We aim to touch base on social issues through the lens of fashion and beauty while also celebrating undiscovered local creatives and introduce them to the global stage.
Anindya Anugrah, also known as Phantasien, is a self-taught illustrator based in Jakarta, Indonesia. Inspired by music, folklore and history, her self-published zines centers around reinterpreting traditional Indonesian dance through illustration.
Popa Nota Studio is a Kuala Lumpur-based paper engineering and graphic design studio founded by David Ho in 2024. With an affinity towards paper, deployable formats, and graphic design, the studio explores unique forms of pop-up media and structures through a designer’s lens. In addition to paper engineering, Popa Nota Studio also provides visual identity branding, typography, and graphic design services.
Possible Worlds is an independent project space, shop and publisher, specializing in narrative-driven visual art, electronic music and small press initiatives. Based in Canada, we present and produce works and programming that amplify the voices of underrepresented, emerging and experimental artists from Canada and internationally. Through our outreach arm, we operate a public engagement studio, host experimental music salons and artist talks, offer micro-publishing residencies and research-based learning programs, and present Object//Project Art Book Fair.
Process Magazine is a Kuala Lumpur based print magazine that celebrates the creative process. We speak with people across art, music, design and architecture to understand how they work and think through their creative practice.
pu-ri is an artist who creates water paintings with graphic design by a Japanese graphic designer, Yuko Koike. Her art books are experimental results of design and illustration trials.
Rakel is the graphic design practice of Indonesian designer Celcea Tifani. Her work focuses on experimentation, exploring personal interests in printmaking, duality, semantics, interpretation, and gardening. Rakel’s practice is grounded in the belief that tactile experiences leave an immediate, lasting impression on feelings, memories, and spaces.
Ranch Pressing is an independent small press operating on unceded Wadawurrung Country, Australia. Ranch Pressing publishes limited edition art, design, poetry and critical theory books on recycled, found and discarded stock. We use second hand printers, staplers, and stitchers. We design, commission, hand collate and bind with sustainability in mind.
We are Francis Van Maele and Antic-Ham, a duo of book artists and founders of Redfoxpress, established in Ireland in 2005. From our silkscreen studio, we publish artists’ books and screen-printed editions inspired by travel, visual culture, ephemera, and found objects. Our work explores visual storytelling, vintage graphic design, and typography.
Rinaldo is an artist living and working in Bali with multidisciplinary backgrounds in graphic design, illustration, and printmaking. His ongoing body of work explores amok, an English loanword from Malay/Indonesian meaning to rampage or to run berserk. In the body of work, the phenomenon is visualised by erupting volcanoes, a force of nature that brings both destruction and life for the surrounding agricultural communities. In parallel, amok works as an ambivalent force that not only fuels mass riots but also drives grassroots movements and societal changes.
Rizo Masr, founded in 2021 is a contemporary print and design studio based in Maadi, Cairo with a specialization in risograph printing and a spectrum of design services. Beyond crafting visually stunning posters, zines, and brochures, our expertise spans comprehensive branding, editorial, and creative direction that breathes life into your vision.
RJ Paper is the trusted partner for thousands of designers, creators, artists and makers since 1987. For decades, our personal touch to customers and attention to materiality have positioned us right at the heart of creative communities and their projects. It’s part of our mission to continue doing that so don’t hesitate to approach us for help. It’ll give us great joy to join you on your journey.
Silas Oo (b. 1996) is a multidisciplinary artist based in Kuala Lumpur who specialises in ink drawing and sculpture. His works often blend surrealist fantasy with sci-fi retrofuturism, aesthetic sensibilities that he picked up on from pop culture and childhood influences.
Said and His Project is an independent publishing platform dedicated to producing visual books that explore global music, art, and popular culture in its many forms.
Se—ri is a Bangkok-based risograph studio, printing press, and zine shop centring Thai and East and Southeast Asia (ESEA) artists. Their published zines and curated publications have strong focuses on queer, feminist, and marginalised narrative.
SendPoints is a Hong Kong-based independent publisher of books and periodicals for artists, designers and students who are always looking for fresh ideas and reference related to design and art.
SEPETWOOD is an evolving jewelry practice that explores the relationship between objects, memory, and material. Moving beyond conventional adornment, we use silver, publications, and experimental making to document the processes behind each piece. At KL Art Book Fair, we present jewelry not only as wearable objects but as a medium for storytelling / inviting visitors to encounter the sketches, tools, failures, and narratives that shape every work.
Shuhufan Shukardi is a visual artist and illustrator from Kedah, Malaysia. Drawing inspiration from nature, mythology and magic, Shuhufan taps into his imagination and creativity to create his own creatures & folk stories from childlike curiosity. Fairies and mythical beasts of his own design are scripted into art prints and tapestries.
Shuiwong is a visual artist who grew up in Japan, Singapore, China and the UK. She creates zines, illustrations, and animations through a graphic, reportage style. Often sketching on location with a brush pen, she uses live drawing to capture and record her surroundings. She also makes comics sparked by personal experiences and random thoughts in her head. From rapid portraits of musicians and dancers to whimsical comics featuring animals and monsters, her self-published works are a vibrant documentation of life and dreams.
Shuren Press is an independent publisher based in Batu Pahat, Johor. A publishing offshoot of the menswear brand Shuren Projects, it has released two anthologies—Minority Blues (2022) and Eternal Summer Notes (2025)—as well as the poetry collection Everything in Life Is a Fire (2021), which was longlisted for the Malaysian National Library’s Readers’ Choice Award 2025/26. Its latest zines are Elegy.rar: An Algorithm Dreams of Melancholia, and Influencers Must Die: Rage Against Community as Content.
Shu (shuuhuahua) is a Malaysian artist and illustrator based in Petaling Jaya. She works in illustration and charcoal, making artist’s books, zines and prints. Her drawing is playfully absurd and eerily tender. Print is treated as an active object: paper folded, hole-punched and bound against convention, pushed through the limits of Risograph.
Based in Johor Bahru, Kai is a documentary producer, director, and photographer focusing on human-centric and social issues storytelling. Over a decade of photographic practice across Eurasia, he has developed five photozines shaped by long-term journeys and sustained observation. His work explores how everyday life reveals broader social, political, and cultural transformations through public space, architecture, and mobility. Working across documentary filmmaking, photography, and self-published photozines, Kai weaves together images and research into deep narratives of place, memory, and time.
sippingtheteh is an artist in exploration but describes their work as “deeply Malaysian”. Their principle “Not profound, just honest” is something that reflects in their work — to focus on narratives with candor. sippingtheteh believes in justice for the unseen, unheard, unknown and seeks to put them on the spotlight with a contemporary lens.
Formed in 2025 after participating in the Taipei Art Book Fair (草率季), we are a making trio of former classmates from the evening program at Kuwasawa Design School. We create and sell zines, accessories, handmade plush toys, and other original objects, exploring ideas through both print and three-dimensional works.
Indy is an illustrator and zinemaker based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Through her project, Slightlyfancy, she captures the essence of femininity, confidence, and innocence in her vibrant risograph illustrations. Her digital illustration series started in 2021, featuring 50 unique characters, each with distinct color palettes and personalities. By 2023, she expanded her vision, bringing these characters to life through print media and merchandise.
Operating at the intersection of multimedia art and independent publishing since 2024, my practice uses the photobook to reclaim the individual “Aura” in a machine-dominated age. Collected by Asia Art Archive in America, my publications feature in major global fairs. This practice extends into 1/2 Library, an experimental project launched in 2026 that transforms half of my fair booth into a walkable micro-library. By showcasing independent publications alongside handwritten reader notes, it cultivates a collaborative space where personal narratives engage in dialogue, fostering new community-driven connections between Asian artists and international audiences.
SOUTH EAST PARK is a group of young, funny, bougie, and occasionally sexy illustrators and designers based in Bangkok. Through self-publishing, illustration, and graphic design, we transform the absurdities of everyday life, internet culture, and shared local experiences into playful visual experiments. Our work draws from the mundane, the awkward, and the highly relatable, using humor and storytelling to celebrate the beauty of ordinary moments.
SPILLLL is a Seoul-Bangkok-UK based collective of four ESEA queer women serving a salad of non-western heritage, food politics, queerness, and feminism through zines and creative gatherings, with the aim of fostering loose solidarity within the queer ESEA community.
Street Report is an ongoing project of accounts describing in detail situations or events on the street, usually from the result of observation and inquiry by a Street Reporter. Street Report reviews local and human-scale realities.
Suburbia Projects is an independent architecture bookseller and publisher based in the suburbs of Petaling Jaya, Malaysia. Founded in 2020 by architects Ashran Bahari and Naadiya Hani, it champions critical and meaningful publications that explore architecture as a cultural, social, and political practice. Through publishing, bookselling, exhibitions, and public programmes, Suburbia Projects fosters conversations that extend beyond buildings, placing ideas, values, and everyday life at the centre of architectural discourse.
Sunflower Seed Studio is a collection of self-expression and storytelling through artwork, poetry, and music made by a group of local Malaysian writers and poets. A community of artists and writers with day jobs and daydreams, finding joy in the little things.
SB and KJ, graphic designers and visual artists from Taiwan, are both dedicated to exploring the aesthetics of Asian subcultures. They transform their creations into various forms such as art books, zines, posters, stickers, prints, and remade designs. SB’s representative works include Daily vol.1-vol.6 and Field Investigation of Level B Streets in Taiwan. KJ’s representative works include NT-DD, THE COSFACE PLAYER, and KJ’s (H)zine.
My name is Gandhi Eka also known as Supergunz is an artist and illustrator working within music and visual subcultures through concert posters, album covers, merchandise, and self-published books and zines. I approached images as living artifacts embedded in collective identity. My work draws parallels between rock music and prehistoric rock art, exploring a shared visual lineage across time through dense, layered compositions and techniques such as stencils and mouth-blown spray.
Suzy Chan is a designer and visual artist who grew up in Macau and Guangdong, China, studied at UAL LCC in London, and worked for Adidas headquarters in Germany as a brand designer. She currently lives and works in London, UK and China.
Syarifah Nadhirah is a Visual Artist and Designer based in Kuala Lumpur. She focuses on the precarity of food producers and farmers’ livelihoods in light of the Malaysian government’s proposed seed quality bill to join the UPOV1991. Syarifah also catalogued and illustrated edible plants as seen through Orang Asli Semai and Temuan members of the community in her book, Recalling Forgotten Tastes. Her subsequent work explored ideas of memory and matter of plant migration, resulting in her solo exhibition, ‘Measure of Seeds’.
Tara Books publishes illustrated books for children and adults. We work with Indian indigenous and folk artists, illustrators and designers from across the world, and with authors from India and elsewhere. Known for our richly visual content, our list comprises picture books for all ages, graphic narratives, titles in art and art education. We have a special line of books which are produced in our bookcraft workshop, using a range of printing processes: silkscreen printing by hand, letterpress and risography.
Thinking*Room is a brand-focused design studio based in Jakarta and Bandung, Indonesia. Established in 2005, we have partnered with clients across diverse industries to build, grow, and transform their brands. Beyond client work, our passion for graphic design drives us to continuously create and publish projects we love, ranging from books and independent publications to products and creative initiatives.
An independent print publication curated to platform arts of all kinds. The reason we chose print was so we have a physical magazine to bring people together in a physical space and spark discussion. We have featured fiction, visual art, pottery, poetry, photography and non-fiction pieces. In the coming issues we hope to feature more pieces like this as well as some in music, fashion and other creative endeavours.
Tokotype Goods is a complementary typographic-driven product, from prints, apparel, and tools managed & developed by Tokotype, a leading Indonesian type foundry, crafting custom and commercial fonts to elevate brands.
Tony Yap is independent artist based in Kuala Lumpur. Tony’s work, primarily through monochromatic graphite drawing and writing, explores dreamlike liminal geographies building a fictional archive within his ongoing world. He brings these parallel practices together as a collection of original works, self-published zines and printed matter.
Toot A Loot is a roaming photographer who embraces the art of slow travel, weaving narratives through his lens. With an eye for the subtleties of light, shadow, and texture, he captures the beauty in the everyday and the understated. His approach to photography is defined by a profound appreciation for simplicity, finding elegance in the ordinary and the often overlooked.
Transverse Haven was founded in 2012 and its studio is located in Shanghai, dedicated to the creation of painting and photography. The work is permanently collected by the National Library of France and the Alexander Tutsek-Stiftung Foundation in Germany.
Meet Nugraha Pratama, an illustrator who lives for travel and a good story. Since 2009, he’s been documenting his adventures through sketches—capturing everything from historic architecture and local food to the little moments of everyday life. In 2023, he launched Travel Sketchbook Project, a platform to turn those journals into merchandise. From serial travel books, postcards to collectible art prints, Nugraha manages and publishes everything independently in small, curated batches.
TReC1and2 is a Tokyo based DIY screenprinting project run out of a small apartment screens made in a closet, printing done in a kitchen. Working with photographs, drawings, and collage, images are broken down and rebuilt by hand through screenprint, Risograph, and laser print until they feel closer to memory than documentation. Self published zines, hand pulled prints, and printed objects are produced in small editions and brought to independent art book fairs across Asia.
vicwolfe.pdf is a loose collective working at the intersection of architecture, publishing, and visual culture. Through zines, installations, photography, drawing, and research, it investigates the overlooked, the ordinary, and the unfinished. Its work traces the shifting relationship between people and place, documenting everyday urban life while imagining alternative futures through critical spatial narratives and speculative design.
Viko Zhijune is a multidisciplinary creator working across painting, photography, writing, and publishing. Their self-published Fragile Words Zine explores self-observation through fragmented compositions of photographs, paintings, drawings, and text, where seemingly incomplete elements form a cohesive whole. For this collaboration, Viko presents an experimental photobooth photography zine that investigates the relationship between instant portraiture and everyday life. Treating the photobooth as both a documentation tool and a site of spontaneous encounters, the project explores how fleeting moments can become intimate visual narratives.
Visual Collect is an art bookstore and independent publisher based in Seoul, South Korea. We are dedicated to helping readers engage more deeply with art and culture, while fostering a positively evolving world through a virtuous cycle of exchange across diverse creative disciplines.
Wailun is a multidisciplinary designer working across graphic design, photography, and writing. His work is shaped by quiet observation, focusing on the fleeting nature of time and capturing the stillness of passing moments. He creates small-run photobooks, zines, and artworks that bring together personal narratives and visual documentation.
We are an art collective formed by friends based in Tokyo, London, and Ningbo. Starting with a name that sounds like a joke — and maybe it is — we record daily life and capture interesting, chill, strange but real moments. At the same time, we are serious!
Wonderwhy is Southeast Asia’s cultural documentary media, capturing the intricacies of daily life across the region in print and digital. We collaborate with over 50 local contributors to offer inspiring micro-cultures that will spark ideas and open doors for those seeking a deeper understanding of this thriving market.
Wulang Sunu experiments across media, prints, drawings, paintings and animation. He wanders through human experience, history, and mythology, only to reveal how joy, sorrow, horror, and humor constantly trip over each other. In his universe, the profound and the ridiculous share the same stage, and neither ever knows who gets the spotlight.
Xtarxin is an artist and graphic designer who loves to explore the intersection of art and design through different mediums, styles, and forms. Whether she is focusing on illustration, crafting a zine, or embarking on other visual explorations, her work shapes a personal, imaginative world rooted in continuous exploration. By observing everyday life, Xtarxin gently transforms her personal thoughts and daily emotions into these imaginative, creative spaces, leaving room for open interpretation.
Yiran Li is an independent artist and self-publisher from China. Working primarily with colored pencils and watercolors, she explores intimacy, memory, cultural displacement, and the emotional digestion of unspoken complexities. Yiran’s practice views the zine as a tactile sanctuary; she experimentally manipulates paper textures, printing techniques, and unexpected folding structures to mirror the fluid boundaries of dreams and distance. From botanical illusions to translated fragments of love, her books transform internal psychological ripples into serene, otherworldly visual narratives that invite readers to touch, flip, and feel.
An illustrator, comic artist, and character designer in Japan. His representative works include the character illustrations “Mosh” and “Tako-yaki kun.” He has held exhibitions and workshops not only in Japan, but also in Taiwan, Malaysia, Germany, and other countries. He often creates artworks based on casual sights and moments discovered while walking and traveling. Recently, he has been drawing illustrations for the Pokémon Trading Card Game. MOSH MOSH BOOKS is a book label in Osaka that publishes Yukihiro Tada’s art books and offers prints and original merchandise.
Yukin Yan is an independent artist creating artist’s books and self-published works that transform everyday observations into playful visual worlds. Her practice combines drawing, experimental printmaking and bookmaking to build spaces that readers can wander through rather than simply read. Interested in movement, relationships and subtle shifts, she sees each publication as a small system that continues to grow across prints, objects and future editions
I’m a multidisplinary designer passionate about visual experimentation, transforming invisible ideas into experiences that people can feel, interpret, and connect through. I believe graphic design is a bridge connecting people, perspectives, and emotions.
Zine Zan Zun is an independent publisher based in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, exploring everyday life through artistic and self publishing practices. Our publications are characterized by tactile, exploratory, and imaginative approaches, often experimenting with format, materiality, and interaction to expand how printed works are experienced.
Founded in 2020 in Malaysia, Zontiga is an independent photography bookstore, publisher, and community space dedicated to the culture of photography. Through its curated collection of photobooks, exhibitions, workshops, film lab, and public programmes, Zontiga fosters dialogue around visual storytelling and image-making. It also publishes “Tiga Mata”, a bi-annual Southeast Asian photography zine that champions emerging and established voices from the region.
The Guji Universe is an ongoing fictional world developed through illustration, printmaking, and narrative world-building. Here, little chicks drink tea, chase runaway stars, and occasionally become cosmically invincible. Through zines, prints, and artist-designed objects, the project transforms ordinary moments—dreaming, daydreaming, and quiet observation—into poetic narratives.
Sadbunny and little cat Hoho’s life stories — delivering the healing power of comfort and the energy of courage. The latest published picture book: “Sadbunny’s Trip: Tears Turn Time into Stars”.
Immigration Shop explores borders, migration, and memory through objects inspired by the rituals of travel, while its publishing project, brOKen press, explores the idea of ‘nearby’.