Current Editions supports PACBI (the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel) and total liberation for the Palestinian people!
If you’d like one of these posters designed by @jessalynaaland , send us a message and we’ll mail you one (or you can pick up locally in the Bay Area).
What an 💫incredible💫 time at last weekend’s Los Angeles Art Book Fair!!!
We were overwhelmed by the enthusiasm for our two newest publications, Distant Zenith and God Only Knows. New stuff coming soon to currenteditions.biz!
Huge thanks to everyone who came by our table, and the amazing organizers and volunteers at @printedmatter_artbookfairs ! 🍕💐
Some highlights:
🍊 Our wonderful table neighbors and new friends @naranjapress
🚘 We met someone who had a vanity plate and CHANGED it to a DIFFERENT vanity plate. It was like meeting a celebrity!!!
💌 @markallenartjams ’s pop-up cards sold out repeatedly, so he kept making fresh batches and dispatched them with a bevy of students
🧢 We met someone whose friends changed their last name to Zzyzx upon marriage—AND they used to live in our old San Diego house!!??!?@#)GJW(@#%(#$!! (shout-out Moustache House!)
#LAABF #LAABF2026
Last day of @printedmatter_artbookfairs LA! D1 at @artcenteredu South Campus in Pasadena til 6pm!
It’s been an incredible fair and we’ve had a great reception for all our new publications! @jessalynaaland even met fellow vanity plate head Daniel Nussbaum, who published PL8SPK in 1993, the only other art book we know of about personalized license plates!!!
#laabf2026
One week til Printed Matter’s LA Art Book Fair! 🌇🌴
👀 Find us at 𝗧𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗗𝟭
We’re bringing a fresh lineup of new publications:
🚗 God Only Knows: A Field Guide to California Vanity Plates
☢️ Distant Zenith: Logos of American Nuclear Weapon Tests
🌕 Like Nothing on Earth: Photographic Artifacts of Early NASA Missions
💅🏻 Girltalk
Beyond books: a @markallenartjams designed hat, a deep dive into American guerilla warfare from 1965-1970, and Current Editions totes to carry it all home. Plus, a special selection from Quel Désastre Party Bear. 🐌🐌🐌
📍 @artcenteredu
Pasadena (South Campus)
🗓 May 7–10, 2026
Opening Night (Thurs): 6–9pm
Fri–Sat: 11am–7pm
Sun: 11am–6pm
Come browse, hang, and catch up—see you there! 🌟
@printedmatter_artbookfairs
#LAABF #LAABF2026
The Copy Culture course by @whatliat at the University of San Francisco looks very cool. And thanks to technology, we had the pleasure speak with the class.
We discussed archives of all types, our process of engaging with politically challenging material, and PAPER STOCK. Key issues of the day.
The class is working with the @prelingerlibrary for a project. A dream experience if you ask us! We can't wait to see the finalwork 👀
Want to browse the best selection of Current Editions publications in America?
Check out @personal_________space in Vallejo, California!
You can even find our now out-of-print publications like:
🌎 Organizing Power Volume 2
📢 A Brief and Inconclusive History of Protests on San Francisco's Market Street
😀 Not Recommended for Children Under 3 Years of Age: 25 Years of Sticker Packaging
Plus stickers, tote bags, card box sets, and more!!! And a ton of cool stuff by artists in the Bay Area and beyond.
Open Saturdays & Sundays—don’t miss the current exhibition Glyph, on view through May 3!
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NASA didn’t plan to show you these images.
They’re not Earthrise or Blue Marble, but the errors and flubs of early space photography.
LIke Nothing on Earth is about human imperfection, despite every checklist and control.
Like Nothing on Earth: Photographic Artifacts from Early NASA Missions by @hernberferd
Published by Current Editions
Technology is a land of contrasts…and somehow we managed to use it for good this week by talking virtually to future publishers in Nova Scotia(!!). Thanks to @copyshopbooks for the invite to The Maritimes.
We discussed audience capture, accidental aesthetics, and candlepin bowling. That’s right, The Maritimes are DEEP in the regional target sport mindset. 🎳✨
The entire class will be tabling at @anchor_archive zine fair—this is what we call a field trip of a lifetime! Bon voyage!!
It’s your last chance to pick up a copy of Not Recommended for Children Under 3 Years of Age: 25 Years of Sticker Packaging by @jessalynaaland —we have just ONE LEFT!
It has some minor wear and tear, so we’re offering it at 50% off. Comes with a FREE STICKER!
Available on our website → www.currenteditions.biz
UPDATE: SOLD!
