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In Anti-Environments, designer-artist Luis Adrian Borchardt explores how misusing digital tools and alternative design processes can unearth new creative potential and lead to greater autonomy and experimental practice with digital media. This highly unconventional companion on design tools challenges established traditions and methods through friction. Borchardt deliberately examines fields of tension and software limitations to break with conventional ways of use and to open new, unexplored avenues for creativity. He advocates for digital media being understood as dynamic formative systems to be made use of and to be repurposed, rather than as linear processes.
Borchardt’s visionary book is itself such an “anti-environment,” produced entirely in Google Sheets and avoiding conventional design programs. In this way, he demonstrates an alternative hybrid publishing approach, allowing readers to print a work from the internet and bind the volume themselves.
Borchardt is a trailblazer for a more open, democratic concept of disseminating knowledge and making it accessible.

Winner of one of German Stiftung Buchkunst’s 2025 Sponsorship Prizes for Young Book Design and a 2025 International Creative Award. Prize Nominee Work & Excellent Work at the Tokyo TDC Annual Awards 2026. Longlisted at the German forms of publication 2026 competition.

For over a decade, Laure Catugier has explored analogies between music and modern architecture through her project Architecture Is Frozen Music, collecting modernist fragments during residencies across the Middle East, Asia, and Eastern Europe. Her first monograph, A Never-Ending Stone, references François Coignet, who called concrete “a never-ending stone” in the 1860s, recognizing its potential. As modernism is rooted in concrete’s widespread use, the catalog’s images trace 20th-century architectural evolution. Catugier’s recent work examines the social dimension of modernism, especially collective housing—its norms, forms, and political ambiguities.
The book includes an essay by Anna-Lena Wenzel, an interview with curator Moritz Küng, and new image collages by the artist. By layering lines and shifting perspectives, Catugier disrupts Cartesian space and questions the role of architecture in a changing, climate-impacted world.

How to Book in Berlin serves as a comprehensive guide to bookmaking and publishing, offering insights we wished we had when we were starting out. It includes information on research methods, funding strategies, production techniques and distribution approaches, all underpinned by the perspectives and advice of experienced publishers.
Our ultimate ambition is to alleviate the challenges often associated with the journey of creating artists’ books and to foster meaningful connections within the diverse and vibrant artists’ book communities.
Contributors include: Vanessa Adler (Argobooks), Franziska Brandt & Moritz Grünke (Gloria Glitzer & We Make It), Ipek Burçak (Well Gedacht Publishing), Andreas Bülhoff (sync.ed), Jonas von Lenthe (Wirklichkeit Books), Anja Lutz (The Green Box), Johanna Maierski (Colorama), Thomas Monses (Melo Melo Print), Rada Nastai (bruise studio), Michalis Pichler (MISS READ), Nina Prader (Lady Liberty Press), Malte Spindler (Lucky Punch Press), Claudia de la Torre (backbonebooks), Martijn in ‘t Veld (Happy Potato Press)
Based on the original title, How to Book, Ed. Hanson Coleman and Hannah Yukiko Pierce, published by Small Editions