Visiting Singapore Art Book Fair 2014

I didn't know that an event such as the Singapore Art Book Fair actually existed. And apparently, this is the second year running already.

I only found out about this event on Friday and could only visit it on Sunday. It ran from 13 Nov to 16 Nov 2014.

Singapore Art Book Fair 2014
The Singapore Art Book Fair 2014 was once again held at Gillman Barracks, former military camp turned arts enclave in Singapore.

Singapore Art Book Fair 2014
The exact venue was at Block 43, which is almost at the tail end of Gillman Barracks. There were quite a few food stalls outside selling finger food like hotdogs and soft drinks.

Singapore Art Book Fair 2014

Singapore Art Book Fair 2014
It was more crowded than I expected. It's a pretty young crowd, I guess probably 20-under 40s.

Singapore Art Book Fair 2014

Singapore Art Book Fair 2014

Singapore Art Book Fair 2014

Singapore Art Book Fair 2014

Singapore Art Book Fair 2014

Singapore Art Book Fair 2014

Singapore Art Book Fair 2014
Near the front entrance, we have Wheniwasfour peddling their homemade nostalgic craft accessories that are nostalgic and harken to the past. They have things like pillows designed with the front cover of jotter books that school children would use (in the past?), the big white rabbit sweet wrapper made into a pin, and other interesting items, of which most have disappeared in modern day Singapore.

Singapore Art Book Fair 2014

Singapore Art Book Fair 2014

Singapore Art Book Fair 2014

Singapore Art Book Fair 2014

Singapore Art Book Fair 2014

Singapore Art Book Fair 2014

Singapore Art Book Fair 2014

Singapore Art Book Fair 2014

Singapore Art Book Fair 2014

Singapore Art Book Fair 2014

Singapore Art Book Fair 2014
This booth is from the Singapore Memory Project. I'm quite surprised to see the guy promoting the comic story from Monsters, Miracles & Mayonnaise which was drawn by my friend Drewscape.

Singapore Art Book Fair 2014
The cover of Afterglobe instantly caught my attention because the erasers with country flags. Kids growing up in the 80s and 90s will probably remember playing with them.

Afterglobe is a local travel magazine that's published twice a year. It features more personal stories as compared to typical top-ten or best-of lists that you usually see in other travel magazines or websites.

Singapore Art Book Fair 2014

Singapore Art Book Fair 2014

Singapore Art Book Fair 2014
These are self published zines.

Singapore Art Book Fair 2014

Singapore Art Book Fair 2014
The wall of doodles.

Singapore Art Book Fair 2014

Singapore Art Book Fair 2014

Singapore Art Book Fair 2014

Singapore Art Book Fair 2014
These are brush painted letters by The Letter J Supply. Check out their website for more creative lettering.

Singapore Art Book Fair 2014

Singapore Art Book Fair 2014
This is the booth of publisher Gestalten. They published really high quality art and picture books, some of which I've featured before. I spoke to the guy there who told me that they are not actually from Gestalten but are selling the books on behalf of BooksActually.

Singapore Art Book Fair 2014

Singapore Art Book Fair 2014
And that's the BooksActually booth.

Singapore Art Book Fair 2014

Singapore Art Book Fair 2014

Singapore Art Book Fair 2014
I also say one of my sponsors APD Singapore. I just went to their facebook page and back and found out that they had posted about this event. But somehow it did not show up on my facebook feed even though I'm subscribed to them. Argh.

Singapore Art Book Fair 2014

Singapore Art Book Fair 2014
This is Lowave, a publishing house from Paris that are into experimental cinema and video art. Inside those packages you see are selected films in DVD.

Singapore Art Book Fair 2014

Singapore Art Book Fair 2014

Singapore Art Book Fair 2014
This shophouse is one of the cooler things I see at the fair. It's actually a paper model that you can build yourself. You can just get the book, cut out the designs inside and then glue all the pieces together. The recreation is fantastic and includes even furniture inside the house! You can find the books at www.paperbricksdesign.com and Etsy.

Singapore Art Book Fair 2014

Singapore Art Book Fair 2014

Singapore Art Book Fair 2014
Bookends designed by Jessica Wong from Scene Shang.

Singapore Art Book Fair 2014

Singapore Art Book Fair 2014
These are from Push-Press, a Risograph printing press based in Singapore.

Singapore Art Book Fair 2014

Singapore Art Book Fair 2014

Singapore Art Book Fair 2014

Singapore Art Book Fair 2014

Singapore Art Book Fair 2014

Singapore Art Book Fair 2014

Singapore Art Book Fair 2014

Singapore Art Book Fair 2014

Singapore Art Book Fair 2014
Local publisher Epigram Books is also there.

Singapore Art Book Fair 2014
That's about all the photos I took. To view all the photos visit https://plus.google.com/u/0/photos/+TeohYiChie/albums/60822618927358584…

Here's the list of all the exhibitors, many I was unfortunately unable to talk to.

  1. APD
  2. Afterglobe
  3. Allscript
  4. AlsOdoMinie
  5. Cooltiger Ltd
  6. Delere Press
  7. Epigram Books
  8. Ethos Books
  9. Galavant
  10. Gestalten
  11. Grey Projects
  12. Atelier Hoko
  13. Holycrap.sg
  14. Kitchen Label
  15. Knuckles and Notch
  16. Kult
  17. La Libreria
  18. Loveprint
  19. Lowave
  20. Magpie
  21. Math Paper Press
  22. Nathan Yong
  23. Nguan's
  24. Olivia Lee
  25. Original Studio
  26. Paperbricks Design
  27. Phaidon
  28. Photovoice SG
  29. Pipoca Press
  30. PUSH PRESS
  31. Quaint Quarterly
  32. The Redundant Shop
  33. Sarah & Schooling
  34. Sokkuan Tye
  35. Scene Shang
  36. ShangART
  37. Singapore Memory Project
  38. Squelchzines
  39. Supermama
  40. The Letter J Supply
  41. Typesetting SG
  42. Underscore
  43. Visual Inconsideraton
  44. Wheniwasfour
  45. Worldwide Books

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