About us

We are a publisher of original books distributing through a global network, a printer and binder able to make books one-at-a-time and a social gathering place for those interested in publication or in publishing their own work.

Publication Studio (founded in 2009 in Portland, Oregon) prints and binds books one at a time on-demand, creating original work with artists and writers we admire. We use any means possible to help writers and artists reach a public: physical books, an online library, eBooks and unique social events with our writers and artists in many cities.

We attend to the social life of the book. Publication Studio is a laboratory for publication in its fullest sense – not just the production of books, but the production of a public. This public, which is more than a market, is created through physical production, digital circulation and social gathering. Together these construct a space of conversation which beckons a public into being.

Locations & partners

Our books can be bought via the books page or at any Publication Studio. In addition we sell directly through scores of bookshops worldwide, including READ Books at Emily Carr University (Vancouver, CA), Third Place Books (Seattle, US), Powell's Books (Portland, US), Skylight Books (Los Angeles, US) Frolier Poetry Book Shop (Cambridge, US), Woodland Pattern (Milwaukee, US), ProQM (Berlin, DE), After Eight Books (Paris, FR), Paper Moon Books (Utrecht, NL), Hopscotch Reading Room (Berlin, DE), Walgenbach Art & Books (Rotterdam, NL), San Serriffe (Amsterdam, NL), Good Press (Glasgow, UK), Art Metropole (Toronto, CA), Pegasus Books (Berkeley, US), People's Books (Takoma Park, US), Printed Matter (New York, US), Dashwood Books (New York, US), Bureau of General Services—Queer Division (New York, US), McNally Jackson (New York, US), Sun Dog Books (Santa Rose, US), Nantucket Bookworks (Nantucket, US), Basket Books & Art (Houston, US), Marfa Book Co (Marfa, US) and many others. This list is ever-changing; bookshops that want to carry any PS titles should contact us at ps@publicationstudio.biz to arrange a standard 40% discount and shipping.

Residency projects & collaborations

Publication Studio has conducted past residency projects at the Henry Art Gallery (Seattle, US), Emily Carr University (Vancouver, CA), Yale University (New Haven, US) Eyebeam Art + Technology Center (New York, US), Art Gallery of Alberta (Edmonton, CA), and Ecole d’Enseignement Superieur d’Art de Bordeaux (Bordeaux, FR) and has collaborated with innumerable artists and cultural institutions on new publications and projects.

Please contact the relevant studio for information on initiating new projects. We also offer fee-based services, including perfect binding, design and consultation. Please email us for more information regarding our services as prices vary from studio to studio.