zines & art books

ai noise

AI NOISE – JONAS L – zine . riso print . 19 x 28cm . 44 pages . 2024 A collection of Assorted Graphics from the Early Days of Mainstream AI.

trespass 1

TRESPASS ISSUE 1: LIDL -olabo & akay- zine . riso print . 19 x 28 cm . 28 pages . 2024 . TRESPASS is olabo and akay’s new zine series sharing what they find when they enter abandoned properties. In this issue: LIDL on Ankdammsgatan 35.

make room

MAKE ROOM – akay – laser print . 19 x 28cm . 36 pages . 2024 . 50 ex Full-color photography collection of interior walls made visible along Cairo Ring Road 75. Text by Basil Ramzy.  Cairo is one of the fastest growing cities in the world. It expands unrelentingly. Its people’s dreams/hopes/needs multiplying. Concrete […]

quiet defiance 7

quiet defiance​ ISSUE 7 – INDEPENDENT SCHOLAR OF FUTURE FOLKWAYS – rae – zine . riso + color print . 13 x 18,5 cm . 32 pages . 2024 This issue reveals the research process, media analysis, and synthesis of ideas that goes into writing speculative futures outside academic institutions. Quiet defiance is an acknowledgement of […]

b+p 10

BITS & PIECES no. 10 -olabo & akay- zine . riso print . 13,5 x 20 cm . 14 pages . 2023 . BITS AND PIECES are olabo and akay’s everyday random observations. Sorted and juxtaposed into spreads. The zines are printed with risograph copier. Sewn on an industrial Juki and cut by machine guillotine […]

b+p 8

BITS & PIECES NO. 8 – OLABO + AKAY – art zine . repurposed hymn books + riso . 7 x 10 cm . 22 pages . 2022 Way to hell. Photos of the most profane found graffiti you can imagine collected in a hollowed-out hymn book. All photos taken by Olabo and Akay between 2005 […]

bikelock

BIKELOCKS – AKAY + OLABO – zine . riso print . 28,5 x 20 cm . 44 pages . 2019 Olabo and Akay are scavengers. They serve a role, not unlike the rats and crows. They make note when old bikes haven’t moved in a while, turn them into the police station, and when no one […]

b+p7

bits & pieces no. 7 – olabo & akay – zine . riso print . 28 x 19 cm . 52 pages . 2020 In Stockholm, the snow still covers the sidewalks. Vacant storefronts line up along the now-empty pedestrian streets, either closing for good or biding their time, waiting for a return to normality. Motor […]

folk

folk – akay & e.b. itso – zine . full-color . 29.7 x 21 cm . 81 pages . 2014 Both Akay and E.B. ITSO end up in places to witness things not many people see. Lucky for us, they take pictures. For this project, one of the photographers sent a photo they’d taken to the […]

b+p6

bits & pieces no. 6 – olabo & AKAY – zine . riso print . 23 x 30 . 32 pages . 2021 Boom, here we go again Bits & Pieces no 6. The issue that has no bits, only our own pieces. We’ve been referring to it as ”the EKESIÖÖ issue” since just as the […]