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Welcome To Mark Batty Publisher

Mark Batty Publisher is an independent publisher dedicated to making distinctive books on the visual art of communicating, showcasing the visual power and innovation of contemporary culture in all of its varied poses. Today, the visual comes at us from more places than ever, and its dissemination is faster and more advanced every year. Books from Mark Batty Publisher capture this acceleration on the pages of every book. Affordable, well designed, thoughtfully created, and produced to last, MBP books are artful products that readers want to hold onto forever.

DIY ALBUM ART
Paper Bags & Office Supplies

J. Namdev Hardisty

In the early 1990s a renewed spirit of co-operation and do-it-yourself initiative took hold of the North American punk and hardcore scenes. The new DIY approach didn’t stop at booking your own tours and self-releasing records, now it involved putting together the very packaging for those records. Hand-gluing sleeves, silk-screening manila envelopes and raiding thrift [...]

 

Truckers

Mary Richardson

The objects that fill our lives are delivered on the trailers that truck drivers haul to and from farms, refineries, factories, docks, airports, warehouses and retail outlets. Without truckers the world’s consumer cultures would collapse. As integral parts of the global economy, truckers are too often taken for granted.
Drawing on her many years experience writing [...]

 

Talking About Arabic

Mourad Boutros

In Talking About Arabic Mourad Boutros, author of Arabic for Designers, enlists his professional peers to examine the global context for contemporary Arabic design and typography. The thematic thread that runs through every article, case study and illustration is how technological advances have furthered, and changed, the use of Arabic throughout the world, whether it [...]