December 2025, Art-Publishing Definitions and Ecosystems
This issue of fount is the last one connected to research funded by a Carnegie Incentive Grant 2024. If you have been reading issue #2 and #3 or my blog you will already be familiar with the project . Issue #4 aims to bring together the research findings towards offering some definitions for art-publishing by addressing the following questions:
- What is art-publishing or an art-publication, how are they made, who are they made by and who are they made for?
- What do art-publishing ecosystems look like for people in Scotland who don’t live in a major urban centre? In other words, what kinds of social communities and networks of businesses and charitable organisations are involved in making and distributing art-publications in remote and rural areas of the country?
In answering these questions above, in this issue: An Art-Publishing Typology is offered with definitions for different categories as well as a view through the network of organisations and individuals involved, form the eye of the artist-publisher-researcher (me!)
Download this issue #4 as a PDF below for reading on a computer, your mobile phone or tablet. A small batch of print copies will be made available at the Making Publics Press in ATLAS Arts, Portree, Isle of Skye and Birnam Arts, Perthshire. If you would like to make your own print copy, or if you don’t have access to these places because you live too far away or can’t get there, you can download a print booklet formatted PDF at the bottom of the page.
Print at Home File and Guidelines
As with issues #2 and #3, the PDF below is paginated with printers marks for booklet printing (without needing to have that setting on your printer). Download this file if you want to print and bind your personally made booklet copy of this issue at home. Then all you need to do is send the file to print double-sided (flip along the short edge), fold the pages and trim using the crop mark guides. A long arm stapler will be ideal for binding the booklet with two staples along the folded edge. If you don’t have that though, the booklet holds together relatively well without staples. The trimmed dimensions of the print size of fount are 200x 297mm, so using an A4 printer, your version of the publication will be smaller in scale to printed copies available at ATLAS Arts and Birnam Arts. However, your copy will be all the more unique to you and the size and type of paper that you have available. If you want to make a copy closer to the actual size, an A3 printer will achieve that.
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