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The Atlas of Textscapes offers an overview of text drawings from a forty-year period by Tanja Smit, created directly on magazine articles and newspaper pages. The result is a collection of surprising patterns and a broad investigation into layout, words, language, and content. A critical investigation that is simultaneously an ode to language, slowness and the rapidly disappearing printed matter from our society.

Now available: Fragments of Repair, the fourth publication in BAK's publishing series BASICS which revisits fundamental questions and urgencies of our time - the "basics" - and seeks to develop afresh the building block of lexicons, tactics, scenarios, and relations that enable action in contemporary conditions.

On the first of April the soft launch of Unruly Kinships took place at Kunstlerhaus buchenhausen in Austria! Now available through our webshop. 

Below we share the first two reprints by Jap Sam Books of 2025. Sold out publications De Artistieke Attitude, and Landscape Logic now have a second edition.

Below we share the first 2 art book launches by Jap Sam Books of 2025. In this category we released  Bird, Plane, Butterfly. Antoinette Nausikaä, and COSMOS | KOSMOS.

Below we share the first two architecture theory launches of 2025, both co-published by Jap Sam Books. These publications are the latest additions to two book series, Footprint 34 Narrating Shared Futures in the Footprint series, and Noetics Without a Mind in the Ecologies of Architecture book series.