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Actual Source Actual Source collaborates with contemporary artists and designers to publish limited edition books, fonts, clothing, furniture and objects.

Actual Source is a multi-format publisher that collaborates with contemporary artists, designers, and writers to release limited edition books, fonts, clothing, furniture, and objects. Recent collaborations include Dinamo, Joel Evey, Jan Horcik, Allan Ludwig, Girlbarf, Raf Rennie, Hassan Rahim, and Catalogue. Actual Source also offers creative services as Number 04, a studio specializing in art di

rection, branding, and creative strategy. The name Actual Source is derived from an exhibition by Number 04 that took place at the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art in early 2015.

Happy Holidays from ASb 📯
19/12/2025

Happy Holidays from ASb 📯

Buzzin’ Beats Logo Teeavailable at actualsource.orgDJ crew for eclectic & underground dance music featuring Bobo, Moonin...
19/12/2025

Buzzin’ Beats Logo Tee
available at actualsource.org

DJ crew for eclectic & underground dance music featuring Bobo, Mooninite, and UTA Trax. 

6.5 oz garment dye t-shirt with 1 color screen print.
Design by Karl Jørgensen.
Made in USA.

Soft PP Notebook Ruled / A5available at actualsource.orgThis is a new ruled notebook by Penco with a flexible thin plast...
18/12/2025

Soft PP Notebook Ruled / A5
available at actualsource.org

This is a new ruled notebook by Penco with a flexible thin plastic cover. With its 7mm horizontally ruled layout, it is perfect for a diary or a notebook for study. The cover is resistant to scratches and stains even after long use. The notebook is bound to open flat, making it very easy to write on.

Dimension: (W)5.85” x (H)8.25” x (D)0.3”
Material: PP cover, paper
144 pages, 7mm/0.3” horizontal line


BACK IN STOCKHayao Miyazakiavailable at actualsource.orgA richly illustrated journey through the extraordinary cinematic...
18/12/2025

BACK IN STOCK
Hayao Miyazaki
available at actualsource.org

A richly illustrated journey through the extraordinary cinematic worlds of beloved filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki
For over four decades, Hayao Miyazaki has been enchanting audiences of all ages. His animated films, often featuring children navigating unfamiliar and challenging worlds, offer timeless explorations of youth and what it means to grow up. Celebrated and admired around the globe for his artistic vision, craftsmanship and deeply humanistic values, Miyazaki has influenced generations of artists. The universal appeal of his evocative natural settings and complex characters, many among them strong girls and young women, cuts across cultural boundaries.

This book is published on the occasion of the 2021 inaugural exhibition at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles, in collaboration with Studio Ghibli in Tokyo. It accompanies the first ever retrospective dedicated to the legendary filmmaker in North America and introduces hundreds of original production materials, including artworks never before seen outside of Studio Ghibli’s archives. Concept sketches, character designs, storyboards, layouts, backgrounds and production cels from his early career through all 11 of his feature films, including My Neighbor Totoro (1988), Kiki’s Delivery Service (1989), Princess Mononoke (1997), Spirited Away (2001) and Howl’s Moving Castle (2004), offer insight into Miyazaki’s creative process and masterful animation techniques.

The Facit Modelavailable at actualsource.orgIn Sweden, the FACIT brand is as well-known as IBM or Olivetti. Based in Åtv...
16/12/2025

The Facit Model
available at actualsource.org

In Sweden, the FACIT brand is as well-known as IBM or Olivetti. Based in Åtvidaberg, the company produced mechanical calculators, typewriters, and office furniture in the period between 1922 and 1998. By the 1970s the company had grown from a local family business into one of the world’s leading manufacturers. The company-sponsored football team ÅFF was playing in the first division. A few years later the FACIT organization had disappeared—worn down by global capitalism.

The FACIT Model looks at this peculiar outgrowth of corporate modernism through the printed matter produced in FACIT’s in-house print shops. Type specimens, manuals, advertising leaflets, and product catalogs bear witness to a culture in which many of the codes and forms familiar to us from today’s world of work were defined or invented.

The FACIT Model documents the visual research carried out by Our Polite Society in the archives of FACIT AB. The FACIT Model, fanfare, Amsterdam, from 6 to 22 April 2019 and at the FACIT Museum, Åtvidaberg, from 1 July to 29 September.

Right Before My Eyesavailable at actualsource.orgRIGHT BEFORE MY EYES by Jacob Rosenberg. 1988 to 1998.224 pages, 268 im...
16/12/2025

Right Before My Eyes
available at actualsource.org

RIGHT BEFORE MY EYES by Jacob Rosenberg. 1988 to 1998.

224 pages, 268 images. Cloth covered hardbound book with foil block cover and debossed tip-in imagery from behind-the-scenes of “You Never Knew” Hieroglyphics music video shoot in Hawaii, 1998.
Plan B to Hiero. Film and photography from the era, including screen grabs, 16MM film scans, never-seen-before ephemera, drum scans + imacon scans. Source scans captured and developed at Los Angeles institutions: ‘FOTOKEM’ lab and ‘The ICON’.







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Mix 19: Switched-On 🎶Actual Source mix series is back!This edition highlights the sub genre “Switched-On” which started ...
12/12/2025

Mix 19: Switched-On 🎶

Actual Source mix series is back!

This edition highlights the sub genre “Switched-On” which started in the late 60’s following Wendy Carlos’s landmark album Switched-On Bach. A mix featuring recreations of classical and pop songs using the celebrated Moog synthesizer.

Enjoy : - ) 

Curated & Mixed by:
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STOOLS from the JF Chen Collectionavailable at actualsource.orgExhibition CatalogEssay by Dung Ngo; Photographs by Brian...
11/12/2025

STOOLS from the JF Chen Collection
available at actualsource.org

Exhibition Catalog
Essay by Dung Ngo; Photographs by Brian Guido, Erik Benjamins
Hardcover, Offset-Printed Publication
8.25 × 11.5 × 0.6 in, 136 pp.
Edition of 500

Sam Youkilis: Somewhere 2017-2023available at actualsource.orgSam Youkilis has been building a continuous archive of pho...
11/12/2025

Sam Youkilis: Somewhere 2017-2023
available at actualsource.org

Sam Youkilis has been building a continuous archive of photographic works through his phone for the last six years. Working instinctively, Youkilis’s short, immersive videos gather universal themes of human experience, using the casual language of the cameraphone to evoke something profound, anthropological, comprehensive and yet incomplete. Youkilis’s work springs from an attitude, a way of experiencing the world, that contains depth beyond the offhand ease in which his images freely circulate.

In Youkilis’s first publication, the depth of this engagement with human patterns of behaviour is archived and scattered across a diverse range of themes, divided into chapters that playfully tease the tensions between categorisation and chance that inform his observational works. Made exclusively of video stills, Somewhere scours Youkilis’s database for images of everything from the time of day–7:07AM, 12:33PM—to unmade beds, the act of cutting, thresholds, dancing couples and gestures of romance.

Presented as a dense 500-page sequence, Somewhere activates the archive and the typology as a source of human joy and communion while emboldening his subjects and unlocking the deep essence of different places worldwide. Youkilis embraces the real by engaging with both ephemerality and sincerity, while steeped in reverence for the photographic medium through a meticulous engagement with composition, colour, chiaroscuro and framing.

New caps coming soon! 💚
09/12/2025

New caps coming soon! 💚

09/12/2025

BACK IN STOCK
Yung Lean: 256GB
now available at actualsource.org

Continuing our partnership with our friends at OK-RM we are excited to bring you “256GB” for US distribution.


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‘256gb’ is Yung Lean’s first book, tracing the artist’s evolution and continual reinvention. Yung Lean has generated a mass following as a cult icon. Poised between influence and infamy, his outsider status emerged from the internet-based culture of the early 2010s, characterised by its vaporwave aesthetic of nostalgia, surrealism and melancholia.

Collating 574 images shot across iPhone’s 6, 8, X & SE, ‘256gb’ exemplifies Yung Lean’s autonomous artistic production. The book was developed by OK-RM and Suzie&Leo, in close collaboration with Yung Lean, together taking the intimate, extemporary images stored in Lean’s personal photo library into a totemic classical book. Produced in Italy, the book’s material construction draws upon the 500-year-old tradition of bible-making of Legatoria Industriale Artigianale’s premises in Cava de’ Tirreni. Each copy of the book is accompanied by a silver sticker sheet as a token of viral ephemera provoking the book’s classical endurance.

USE CODE: ASB25 to save 25% storewide!Sofia Coppola: Archiveavailable at actualsource.orgArchive is the first book by So...
05/12/2025

USE CODE: ASB25 to save 25% storewide!
Sofia Coppola: Archive
available at actualsource.org

Archive is the first book by Sofia Coppola, covering the entirety of her singular and influential career in film. Constructed from Coppola’s personal collection of photographs and ephemera, including early development work, reference collages, influences, annotated scripts, and unseen behind-the-scenes documentation, it offers a detailed account of all eight of her films to date. Mapping a course from The Virgin Suicides (1999), through Lost in Translation (2003) and Marie Antoinette (2006), to The Beguiled (2017) and her upcoming feature Priscilla (fall 2023), exploring Priscilla Presley’s early years at Graceland, this luxurious volume reflects on one of the defining and most unmistakable cinematic oeuvres of the twenty-first century.

An art book personally edited and annotated throughout by Coppola, Archive offers an intimate encounter with her methods, references, and collaborators and an unprecedented insight into her working processes. Accompanying the highly personal images and texts from Coppola’s archive is an extended interview with renowned film journalist Lynn Hirschberg discussing the remarkable oeuvre they reflect.
Designed by Joseph Logan and Anamaria Morris

Lynn Hirschberg is the editor-at-large at W magazine. She had the same role at The New York Times Magazine and New York Magazine. She was a contributing editor/writer at Rolling Stone and Vanity Fair. Her Emmy nominated video series, the Screen Tests, have won two webbies. She lives in New York City.
 
Paperback with embossed jacket
21.6 x 28cm, 488 pages
ISBN 978-1-915743-13-8
September 2023

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