Pseudo Press

Pseudo Press is a publishing project and bookbindery based in Berlin, founded by Lauria Joan. With a focus on the archival, the ancient, and the apocryphal, Pseudo Press has been alliterating since 2020. Pseudo Press handcrafts and publishes books, zines, and stationery that explore the materiality and history of book-making and book-reading as something communal, precious, and strange.

Lauria Joan, Reading in the Imposter Mode, Pseudo Press, 2026 © Lauria Joan

The memoir of a biblio-fraud.

Reading in the Imposter Mode is a practice of skimming, gleaning, flipping through, letting a book fall past you as you briefly glance at the cascade of tumbling pages, and then turning to confidently declare: it’s genius. It’s overrated. It simply can’t be described. You have to read it. Don’t bother.

Hardcover pamphlet, 28 pages. Foil-embossed front & back cover. Printed in riso with Brown & Fluorescent Pink, plus faux-CMYK endpapers. Each edition comes with a mask-bookmark.

Written by Lauria Joan and designed by Ilona Samcewicz-Parham. Limited first edition, published in 2026.

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various; see description, Book'o'Mark: a book of bookmarks, Pseudo Press, 2025 © various; see description

Can a bookmark help navigate the text?

Can a bookmark be a tool beyond the book?

Can a bookmark be dear to our heart?

The Book’o’Mark features 30 bookmarks, with contributions from: Rahel Zoller, Tillman Press, Johanna Maierski (Colorama), Pseudo Press, CUTT Press, Formal Settings, etaïnn zwer, Rachel Pafe, Formal Settings, Margot Sounack, Tabs, Taxonomy Press, Jae Kyung Kim / einBuch.haus & ENKR, Lady Liberty Press, Juliette Patissier, Pauline Agustoni, hooops collective, Ilona Samcewicz-Parham, Florian ∞ Emden, Lily Orset, Nomad Papaya Books, Esther Depret, WayBad Press, Small Editions, Vala Birna, Hugi Ólafsson, Roman Karrer, Hurrikan Press, Dani Neira, & ANEMONE.

Each page is perforated, so the bookmarks can be ripped off and shared with friends <3

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Lauria Joan, The Pseudo Newsletter, Pseudo Press, 2026 © Lauria Joan

The Pseudo Newsletter (2025—ongoing) is a monthly newsletter with 450 subscribers, featuring bookmaking tips, small press book reviews, studio updates and rambling thoughts on books & literature.

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Making Books: a personal manifesto is a short essay theorizing on the processes and motivations behind bookmaking.

It was originally published for the 2021 Hopscotch Small Publishers fair. Written, designed and bound by Lauria Joan, it is now in its 5th edition.

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