Making and publishing books around art/design since 2018 - about 30+ titles so far, 7 new titles produced this year and around 20 now out of print. We always hope for our books to first move around a bit more locally before being distributed elsewhere so please come have a look! Last day at @singaporeartbookfair today (Sun)!
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Temporary Press has been publishing small books around incidental ideas or everyday practices in art and design since 2018. In this two-part presentation, Gideon Kong - one half of Temporary Press, will share more on their position as designers who publish. Specifically, he aims to talk about the designs Temporary Press publish and the contents they design. The first part takes the form of a simple slide presentation and the second a fragmented reading and guide through the reading room.
Publishing Form and Designing Contents by Gideon Kong
Saturday, 11/4/2026
3:00pm - 4:30pm
Somewhere, Level 7 at Else Kuala Lumpur
*Register via link in bio
Announcing READING ELSE Vol 5: Temporary Press(Singapore) @temporarypress
Temporary Press presents a thoughtfully curated selection of books, bringing together titles from their own press and publications they have shaped as designers - gideon-jamie.
Temporary Press publishes content around art and design in the form of artist books, critical texts, and everyday research with an interest in incidental ideas and alternative practices. The press often relies on economical and improvisational design and production methods, often with a black-only Risograph and simple tools.
This reading room marks the final edition of regional publisher curations shared with the KL public, offered as part of Reading Else.
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READING ELSE
Vol 5: Temporary Press (SG)
11.04.2026 - 26.04.2026
Else Hotel, Kuala Lumpur.
Mon- Fri, 11AM - 6PM
Weekends, 11AM - 8PM
OPEN TO ALL
Reading room setup by @studiokarya___
Graphics by @ejinsha
Hosted & supported by @elseretreats@smth.by.else
A project by @suburbia.projects
@temporarypress at Focal Point Sharjah Art Book Fair @sharjahart over the weekend ☀️ much thanks to @azelia_nwz who will be there with additional titles from friends 🙂📚 (and @hey__juds for tagging along)!
@temporarypress ’s response to design a custom notebook cover for Mossery notebooks during a launch in KL art book fair 2023.
The inspirational quote at the back: “This is a blank notebook disguised as a self-help book that we will probably never (be able to) write”.
The design mimics finance self-help books we often find in second hand bookstores, but in a less confident colour and treatment. The title was appropriated from an actual book we found online.
To our surprise, 4 notebooks were sold during that fair.
Part of @gideon_jamie_ ‘s ‘advertisements’, a series of work that advertises our services and practice.
So great to travel with/for books alongside friends, the most enjoyable portions are the exchanges beyond (but because of) the fairs: Gunsan book fair @gsbf.kr , Book Book festival @bookbookfestival , and everything in between.
Forming Cityscapes 10: Shelters
In Forming Cityscapes, we observe and photograph minor urban occurrences in the city of Singapore. These can be seen as forms of appropriation, resistance, improvisation, or critique within spaces or structures implemented at a smaller scale. In the tenth release, they look at how people shield their items, fruits or themselves from harsh conditions or predators.
Available at temporarypress.com along with several other reprinted ones from the series.
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