Figure 1 Publishing

07/15/2025

👋 We're hiring! 💼

Do you have experience with book publicity, social media, event management, and author support?

Are you excited to work on our growing list of illustrated titles in the areas of art + photography, architecture + design, Indigenous art + culture, and food + drink?

Apply to be our MANAGER OF AUTHOR RELATIONS and COMMUNITY OUTREACH: https://www.figure1publishing.com/manager-of-author-relations-and-community-outreach/

06/21/2025

It's National Indigenous Peoples Day—a day to celebrate the traditions, cultures, and contributions of First Nations, Inuit and Métis.

As a publisher, we believe storytelling is one of the most powerful ways to build understanding, preserve knowledge, and celebrate culture.

Today, we are proud to spotlight a selection of books in our Indigenous Art + Culture category that we’ve been honoured to publish, in collaboration with Indigenous authors, artists, scholars, curators, and Elders.

Join us in celebrating these stories—spanning art, fashion, photography, and history—by checking out a book from our Indigenous Art + Culture section. Here are our top picks this year:

This month is National Indigenous History Month, and Saturday, June 21 marks National Indigenous Peoples Day—a day to celebrate the traditions, cultures, and contributions of First Nations, Inuit and Métis. This year, we are proud to spotlight a selection of books in our Indigenous Art + Culture ...

06/06/2025

Put a fresh spin on your cocktails this weekend with this Green Awakening gin drink from For the Love of Cocktails by Evelyn Chick at https://canadiancookbooks.ca/green-awakening/ Refreshing! Figure 1 Publishing

06/06/2025

🏳️‍🌈Happy Pride Month🏳️‍🌈

In honour of Pride, we're bringing back this Q&A with Out North authors Dr. Craig Jennex and Dr. Nisha Eswaran, who joined Figure 1 to reflect on the process of writing Out North: An Archive of Q***r Activism and Kinship in Canada (co-published with The ArQuives)

While we're all sold out of copies, you can still get your hands on one in most libraries, some indie bookstores, and second-hand online retailers📚

Figure 1: How would you describe the process of writing Out North? Dr. Craig Jennex: This was a huge project, mainly because the collection at The ArQuives: Canada’s LGBTQ2+ Archives, is so vast. We had to decide what stories and materials to present and think about the broader narrative of LGBTQ2...

06/06/2025

Congratulations to our author Jill Payne for her Gold Foreword INDIES award win for her book Be a Dime!

Figure 1 is proud to share that Be A Dime: Unleash Your Inherent Energy and Live Life More Joyfully by Jill Payne has received a Gold Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards in the Self-Help category. “With over 2,400 entries submitted across 55 categories, this year’s competition showcased the ...

05/27/2025

The Place of Objects is available now!

As a musician, performer, activist, collector, John David Lawrence has long held an important, if underrecognized, position in Vancouver’s creative community.

Over several decades, Lawrence amassed an idiosyncratic personal collection that includes ceramics, Indigenous art, jewelry, folk art, photography, and plant life.

Through his collection, The Place of Objects reveals a kaleidoscopic portrait of the many and diverse talents working in and around BC’s art scene over the past forty years.

Get your copy today: https://www.figure1publishing.com/book/the-place-of-objects/

Written by Michael J. Prokopow, PhD, and Stephanie Rebick, and co-published with the Vancouver Art Gallery to coincide with the Written in Clay exhibition, on now! https://www.vanartgallery.bc.ca/exhibitions/written-in-clay

05/13/2025

Figure 1 is proud to share that Space for Birds: Patterns and Parallels of Beauty and Flight by Dr. Roberta L. Bondar has won the Next Generation Indie Book Award in the Science, Nature, and Environment category!📚

Congratulations to The Roberta Bondar Foundation and thank you to the Next Generation Indie Book Awards!

Figure 1 is proud to share that Space for Birds: Patterns and Parallels of Beauty and Flight by Dr. Roberta L. Bondar has won the Next Generation Indie Book Award in the Science, Nature, and Environment category.

05/13/2025

We had a great time at Toronto Lit Up last week! Here’s Dr. Bondar discussing her new book, Space for Birds: Patterns and Parallels of Beauty and Flight, with the CBC’s Nicole Mortillaro. Thanks to all who came out and to the Toronto International Festival of Authors and Toronto Public Library for hosting.

You can order Space for Birds here: https://bit.ly/4brfPZM

05/06/2025

📚It's pub day📚

'Sea of Islands: Exploring Objects, Stories, and Memories from Oceania' is available now!

Written by Carol E. Mayer, this book brings together knowledge holders, scholars, and artists from across the Pacific with Western scholars working with Pacific collections—as well as members of diasporic Oceanic communities—to share the stories and journeys of the objects that comprise Canada’s largest Oceanic collection, housed at The Museum of Anthropology at UBC.

Order your copy today: https://www.figure1publishing.com/book/sea-of-islands/

05/02/2025

We want to highlight a few of the stunning artist portraits scattered throughout the pages of Worlds on Paper: Drawings from Kinngait, by Emily Laurent Henderson📚

1: Pudlo Pudlat, 1968
2: Pudlo Pudlat, Untitled, 1983–84
3: Ulayu Pingwartok, 1968
4: Ulayu Pingwartok, Untitled, 1977
5: Johnniebo and Kenojuak Ashevak, 1968
6: Johnniebo Ashevak, Drawing for print ‘Fantasy,’ 1960–65 and Kenojuak Ashevak, Untitled, 1959/65 59
7: Ningeeuga Oshuitoq, 1968
8: Ningeeuga Oshuitoq, Untitled, 1978

A testament to the impacts of colonization and a record of adaptation and resourcefulness, Worlds on Paper presents never-before-published drawings from artists in Kinngait (Cape Dorset) made between 1957 and 1990. These works lie outside of the artistic norms typically associated with Inuit art of the era, revealing a community in a time of transformation.

The book features essays by Susan Aglukark (), Kyle Aleekuk, Mark Bennett, Napatsi Folger (), Jamesie Fournier, Janice Grey (), Jonas Laurent Henderson, Jessica Kotierk, Nicole Luke, Malayah Maloney (.malayah), Jocelyn Piirainen (), Krista Ulujuk Zawadski, and others, Worlds on Paper explores cultural transformation through the lens of art.

04/26/2025

It's independent bookstore day!

Today is a day for readers, writers, illustrators, and publishers to celebrate indie bookstores across Canada🎉

Support your local bookstore today and enter to win up to $1,000 from IndieBookstores.ca to spend on books📚

Enter the Contest For Book Lovers: https://www.indiebookstores.ca/cibd-contest/

Find an indie bookstore near you: https://www.indiebookstores.ca/bookstores/

04/25/2025

Join us and meet renowned Haida fashion designer Dorothy Grant next Saturday, April 26th, between 1 and 3 p.m.

We welcome Grant to the gallery to present her exciting new book reflecting a 40-year journey of artistic success.

“An Endless Thread serves as a long-overdue celebration of Grant, who has long advocated for the intersection of cultural pride, style, and a maintaining of tradition.” - Vogue

DM to RSVP, and we look forward to seeing you!

Image courtesy of Haida Gwaii Museum