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we're being v literary in public at the mission creek literary festival in iowa city

it's a midwestern paradise out here

come see us at SpareMe (it's a bowling alley) 12-4; if u wanna bowl against me you'll win

if u buy books u also win

it's the only win-win in history
container table with orange drape map logo, look book viewmasters and colette Labouff's holdings
April 6, 2024 at 5:44 PM
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hey blueski

u up
Photo of cardboard view master, orange face, laser etched Container map logo on background of self-healing cutting mat
April 2, 2024 at 1:01 AM
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Get a DEEPER LOOK at our LOOK BOOKS series through writer, designer, and chef of @sublunary.bsky.social Joshua Rothes' TOMB OF THE ECSTATIC POETS: a series of compressed, abstracted histories.

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Container LOOK BOOK Subscription Series. Title: Tomb of the Ecstatic Poet; Installment #5 (November 2024). Description: "...a historical narrative carved in miniature, an exercise in condensation, or a story wrung from stone." Subscribe today using code NEWLOOK Black background, white foreground text in handwritten script reading: Carolus had stones from Jericho and coarse hairs from Herod's beard; a finger of incalculable age, to the second knuckle, and under the nail, Ederic dirt; wherever it had been dropped, it was said, sprouted an oak. A guileless plunderer, but when a finger bled, he put it back, simple s that. Black background, white foreground text in handwritten script reading: One who serves discretely need not fear regret. And it is best remembered that revelation is a historical matter first. It is not as important that something happens so much as that something has happened. Black background, white foreground text in handwritten script reading: No poet should live long enough to confront the porousness of his abstractions. EXTASE, APRÈS LA TOMB.
January 4, 2024 at 6:59 PM
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Get a DEEPER LOOK at our LOOK BOOKS series -- this time through Rémi Forte: typographer, designer, and poet presenting patterns typeset from emotive content that readers discover by looking beyond the visual forms.

Use code NEWLOOK to get 10% off a subscription!

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Graphic with picture of artist Rémi Forte with text INTROSPECTION, Installment #4 (September 2024). Description: A series of geometric figures composed of smaller letter forms emerging in patterns and shapes proposing a visual lexicon of reflexive emotion. Use subscription code NEWLOOK Geometric figure of diamond surrounded by border, make from letters spelling the word "desire." Concentric circles in layers composed of letters spelling "truth" read from top to bottom. Optical illusion composed of letters spelling "transcendence"; illusion appears to be a tunnel stretching away from viewer in perspective.
January 1, 2024 at 10:38 PM
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New year, new look.

Subscribe today with code NEWLOOK to get 10% off the price of a subscription.

The discount is only good until the end of January 2024!

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Listing of last names of participants: PANKEY, NJIE, HUTH, FORTE, ROTHES. Features code NEWLOOK for 10% off Look Book Subscriptions. Tagline: New Year, New Look.
December 29, 2023 at 5:10 PM
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Get a DEEPER LOOK at our LOOK BOOKS series via Geof Huth's "Illuminated Words."

A union of the asemic and illuminated manuscript traditions, the work explores narrative at a slant through glyphs, color, and space.

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Look Book subscription series, 2024. Geof Huth's "Illuminated Words," shipping July 2024. Pictures of combinations of glyphs at bottom. Quote from artist about work reads: "The glyphs in the pieces illustrate the story via calligraphic text displaying meaning absent the intercession of words." Series of interconnected glyphs in black covering center of visual field. Series of interconnected glyphs in blue to black ombre covering center of visual field. Series of interconnected glyphs in green to black ombre covering center of visual field, radiating from circle of blue to black ombre glyphs in center.
December 28, 2023 at 5:13 PM
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Get a DEEPER LOOK at our LOOK BOOKS series featuring a sequence by NJAIMEH NJIE that reflects on community, time, and the forces that shape daily experience through empowerment, embodiment, and perspective.

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A Series of Notes to self preview image with text reading "Shipping May 2024." Describes the series of photo collage images which contain photos overlaid by scrapes of magazine type. Foreground: GE '70s alarm clock reading "6:00"; background fencer pointing foil at viewer on top of close-up flower background. Text reads "Anatomy of a Fighter." Foreground: aluminum cans overlaid on a cityscape background. Text reads: Crown. Beneath the soil. Foreground: Olympus film camera next to text "We Redefine the City." Overlaid on picture of rapidly-running river.
December 23, 2023 at 7:14 PM
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Get a DEEPER LOOK at our LOOK BOOKS series, shipping March 2024.

In this edition, we look at Eric Pankey's OCCULT NOIR, a work that he writes,

"riffs upon, and ... troubles various film noir conventions."

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Occult Noir preview image with text reading "Shipping March 2024." Describes the series of images describing them as "images are details from a photomontage series which riffs upon, and, I hope, troubles various film noir conventions." Container map logo in upper center, four frames from the project at bottom. Image with text GUILTY GUILTY GUILTY on dark background with amorphous figure in red/purple at right. Slide with word VENGEFUL cut off at top; bottom half a posterized reverse-tone picture of two men in fedoras. Top half: word CRIME; bottom half posterized reverse negative picture of two men in fedoras.
December 14, 2023 at 7:52 PM
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We're going to be at this year's edition of the Mission Creek Festival in Iowa City in April of this year alongside some of our friends such as @sarabandebooks.bsky.social and others!

Read more about the festival at their site:

missioncreekfestival.com
Image detailing presses attending the Mission Creek festival: SARABANDE BOOKS DOROTHY, A PUBLISHING PROJECT / TWO DOLLAR RADIO / FONOGRAF EDITIONS / CONTAINER / SPLIT/LIP PRESS / RESCUE PRESS FLOOD EDITIONS / THE IOWA REVIEW / AMERICAN SHORT FICTION / EUROPA EDITIONS / ARROWSMITH PRESS / MEEKLING PRESS PERUGIA PRESS / PROMPTPRESS / BRINK / CLEVELAND REVIEW OF BOOKS / LONG DAY PRESS / NEW MOON MAGAZINE /FLEXIBLE PRESS, LLC / FERAL HOUSE / MWC PRESS /EARTHWORDS: THE UNDERGRADUATE LITERARY REVIEW / INK LIT MAGAZINE / 508 PRESS / QUARTET / MIDDLE WEST PRESS LLC / THE MAD DUCK COALITION
December 14, 2023 at 2:47 AM
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Posting about about our upcoming and newer projects has been great! But. we don't want to forget where we came from; TEM and SAW PALMETTOS are some of our first objects, and we only have ONE OF EACH LEFT!

For more about these objects and everything else we're up to head to our site: acontainer.co
Picture collage of two projects, TEM and SAW PALMETTOS. At left, TEM: pictures overhead of paper origami gems in plaster trays, overhead photo of entire box with text packet on top. At right: SAW PALMETTOS, side angle photo of glass tincture bottles with vellum inserts, close-up photo of same. Overhead photo of TEM box with first page gem layout page showing; origami paper gems in background. SAW PALMETTOS photo of single glass bottle without text inside; lit from behind with etched number 2 showing through glass.
December 3, 2023 at 5:50 PM
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The LOOK BOOK is back with new friends we'll tell you more about over the coming weeks.

■ Njaimeh Njie
■ Rémi Forte
■ Geof Huth
■ Eric Pankey
■ Joshua Rothes

Subscribe: now to February 2024, receive a new reel every two months from March 2024.

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LOOK BOOK preview ad featuring five ViewMaster-style reel graphics with names of contributors: Njaimeh Njie, Remi Forte, Geof Huth, Eric Pankey, Joshua Rothes. US price $45, International $65, Reels-Only $35; prices inclusive of shipping.
November 27, 2023 at 2:56 PM
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"The crush of requests delivered me from myself, but also became a deep realization of how much need is public."

Colette LaBouff's HOLDINGS: a 7-foot, case-bound accordion book about personal and public need situated in the context of the library.

Find out more at: acontainer.co/projects/hol...
Picture of green case-bound accordion book in a gray slipcase taking up the entire frame. Photo take from 45-degree angle above the object.
November 24, 2023 at 5:49 PM
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How are we implicated in one another? What do we do about it? Charles Theonia's Saw Palmettos explores hormones, community, and the brain-time continuum in the form of a tincture bottle display, each containing obscured messages.

Find out more about the project here: acontainer.co/projects/saw...
Picture of etched glass tincture bottles with black droppers at 45-degree angle to viewer in wood stand. Title of work (SAW PALMETTOS), author (CHARLES THEONIA) listed. Container folded map logo.
November 22, 2023 at 4:44 PM
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tem: to finish, to complete. A story part history, part make-believe.

Leading up to announcing our newest work, we're going back to the archive and posting some final copies to get them in the hands of collectors. Yours?

Find out more about it:

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Picture of hand-stamped paper gems in red, orange, brown, and gray. Surrounded by fractured background of teal, red, tan with container folded map logo. Reads: THE FINAL COPY, TEM.
November 20, 2023 at 10:28 PM
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Announcing Catherine Chen's OTHER MONSTERS OF LOVE, a textile engagement in the form of a 包袱 (baofu), investigating the materiality of diaspora and grief.
Publishing December 2023.
Glitched type reading OTHER MONSTERS OF LOVE with Container press logo and release date December 2023.
September 13, 2023 at 12:33 AM
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Second and final day of the Pittsburgh Art Book Fair at the Carnegie Museum of Art; can you spot the different friend that we brought along for today?

Drop by and spend some time with the books if you're in town!
Photo of table layout, books on gray table cover with orange Container logo; books shown Saw Palmettos, In the crossed world of animals, Holdings
September 10, 2023 at 1:56 PM
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We've been sharing this with our new friends at the Pittsburgh Art Book Fair today, and wouldn't want all of you to miss out on the news:

Look Book Series 3 rolls out March 2024.

Follow us or subscribe to our mailing list for updates on preorder: eepurl.com/izecnU
September 9, 2023 at 11:03 PM
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In one hour, we open at the inaugural Pittsburgh Art Book Fair!

Feeling good to be back. Come see some of our work and chat!
Table with book objects, orange Container logo banner (folded set of squares reading "Container") on grey table cover.
September 9, 2023 at 1:16 PM
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In only a few days (9-10 September) come find us at the Pittsburgh Art Book Fair (pabf.cargo.site) with our remaining copies of Terri Witek's cross-stitch kit: in the crossed world of animals!
Pittsburgh Art Book Festival frame around image of brown cross-stitched pillow featuring title in the crossed world of animals by Terri Witek Inside of cross-stitch kit depicting thread, hoop, needles; exterior of box kit ships in Pittsburgh Art Book Fair, September 9-10 10-5 Carnegie Museum of Art
September 7, 2023 at 3:58 AM
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Next weekend (Sept. 9 -10) at Pittsburgh Art Book Fair come see Colette LaBouff's Holdings, a book about the relationships, needs, desires, and (of course) the library.

Learn more at:
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September 2, 2023 at 11:46 PM
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Container returns to the fold September 9-10, 2023 at the Pittsburgh Art Book Fair.

More details to follow; we'll see you in Pittsburgh!

https://pabf.cargo.site/
Container folded map logo; announcement for Pittsburgh Art Book Fair September 9-10, 2023 with red Pittsburgh Art Book Fair poster logo.
August 11, 2023 at 3:42 PM