On Publishing: Graphic Designers Who Publish

Unrealized Archive Press
2022

Overview of onpublishing.page
The website makes several references in structure and graphics to the experience of reading a physical book
The site employs a vertical and horizontal user interaction model, and is composed one long page where each section can be accessed by scrolling left and right
Visitors can collate their own customized versions of the website as print-ready PDFs for popular print-on-demand services
A printed version of the website

On Publishing interviews designers who publish about their practices and the state of the independent publishing industry. Originally created for the SFMOMA 2019 Book Bazaar as a printed publication, after the COVID-19 pandemic took hold, we re-imagined the project as an online, print-on-demand publication.

Each printed version of On Publishing is customizable on compilation, allowing the user to select which interviews to include. The book’s covers are each unique with a randomized design, edition number, and timestamp.

On Publishing features interviews with:

Actual Source
Danielle Aubert
Colpa Press
Companion–Platform
Corners
Emigre
feeeels
Gato Negro
Kristian Henson of HWGL
Inventory Press
Ju Hyun Kang
NXS
ORG
PRESS ROOM
Side Issues
Paul Soulellis
Specter Press
split/fountain
SUPERSALADSTUFF
Typographica
Walker Art Center
Workroom Press
Yejin Cho
Yellow Pages

And writing by Jon Sueda, Will Ruby, Florence Fu, and Chris Hamamoto.

Jon Sueda
Editing and Design
chris hamamoto
Editing, Design and Development
Will Ruby
Design and Development
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