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September 8th Solar Futures by Marjan van Aubel was launched at Het Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam. This publication explores the past, present and future of solar energy, beautifully designed by Studio Joost Grootens. This event kicked of The Solar Biennale, an initiative by solar designers Marjan van Aubel and Pauline van Dongen. For seven weeks, the biennale focusses on the human angle: a solar-powered world goes beyond scientific research and uniform solar panels, after all. 

This weekend the WIELS Art Book Fair is back! The annual book fair takes place in Brussels and gathers independent art book publishers, book lovers, collectors, artists and many more. This year we will host booksignings by Arjan van Helmond, author of What speaks to us and Rune Peitersen, author of Raabjerg at our booth as well as a reading video performance by Ruta Butkute and Emily Kocken, authors of How To Make Sculpture Move. We look forward to meeting you at our booth!

Jap Sam Books and Marjan van Aubel would like to invite you for the book launch of Solar Futures on 8th of September at Het Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam at 13:30 PM.

Solar Futures, the past, present and future of solar energy mapped out by award-winning solar designer Marjan van Aubel. Additional texts by Matylda Krzykowski and Sander Mann, Edited by Marjan van Aubel and Eleonoor Jap Sam and with a beautiful design by SJG (Joost Grootens, Dimitri Jeannottat and Julie da Silva). With the support of the Creative Industries Fund NL, Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds and the Sandberg Institute.

Our good friends at Really Simple Syndicate Press will be representing our publishing house at their booth at the CHART Art Book Fair in Denmark from August 26th until August 29th! A selection of our publications will be for sale. On the first day of the fair there will be a book signing by Rune Peitersen for his new publication RAABJERG, published by Jap Sam Books and beautifully designed by Edwin van Gelder (Mainstudio)

It is time for the third and last fragment of the video readings from the publication Every Day Until Antwerp! In this series, Jacqueline Schoemaker takes the viewer with her on her journey to Antwerp through fragments from the book. 

Jap Sam Books, artist Michiel Kluiters and designer Edwin van Gelder (Mainstudio) are excited to announce the book launch of Doorways. Michiel Kluiters at Athenaeum Bookstore in Amsterdam. This publication consists of a collection of recent photographic works by Michiel Kluiters exploring spatiality, beautifully designed by Mainstudio.

It is time for fragment II of the video readings from the publication Every Day Until Antwerp! In this series, Jacqueline Schoemaker takes the viewer with her on her journey to Antwerp through fragments from the book.