HumDrumPress
HumDrumPress is an expanded publishing project, based between Rotterdam and Berlin, that produces publications, hosts public gatherings, and evolves and maintains an experimental publishing practice.
HumDrumPress works, through collaborative means, to question the conventions of publishing. In doing so, exploring new, connected ways of documenting and circulating voices, ideas, and contexts, and better understanding the role of “publishing” and “publisher” within our current climates.
At the heart of HumDrumPress is the understanding of publishing as a commons, and as a public, community resource. Our publishing projects take the form of both print and digital publications. We publish with a broad range of authors and on subjects from a wide scope of disciplines, backgrounds and experiences. Some of whom are publishing for the first time, whilst others are seasoned writers, but all are connected in their interest in the ideas and methods surrounding “commons” and/or “commoning”.
HumDrumPress works, through collaborative means, to question the conventions of publishing. In doing so, exploring new, connected ways of documenting and circulating voices, ideas, and contexts, and better understanding the role of “publishing” and “publisher” within our current climates.
At the heart of HumDrumPress is the understanding of publishing as a commons, and as a public, community resource. Our publishing projects take the form of both print and digital publications. We publish with a broad range of authors and on subjects from a wide scope of disciplines, backgrounds and experiences. Some of whom are publishing for the first time, whilst others are seasoned writers, but all are connected in their interest in the ideas and methods surrounding “commons” and/or “commoning”.
Florian Cramer and Simon Kentgens, Lumbung, Commons and Community Art, HumDrumPress, 2023 © Florian Cramer and Simon Kentgens
Stack of 'Lumbung, Commons and Community Art' publications, with a focus on the yellow, typography-focussed cover
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Topsoil Collective, Qualities of Collective Learning, HumDrumPress, 2024 © Topsoil Collective
An image of a series of fanned out "Qualities for Collective Learning" pamphlet publications with bold, red cover and handwritten writing
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Gabriel Hensche & Engy Mohsen, How to love many in many ways, HumDrumPress, 2023 © Gabriel Hensche & Engy Mohsen
Cover image of the publication "How to love Many in Many Ways" with hot pink cover and bold typography-focussed cover image
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