Art Book Fair

Fruit Exhibition

Feb. 1st, 11pm – 3rd, 11pm 2018

Bologna, Italy

Fruit Exhibition is the annual independent publishing fair and festival of Bologna. Open to the public, Fruit Exhibition is the only event in Italy featuring traditional and digital publishing, including artists’ books, catalogs, graphic design projects, periodicals, stationary and zines.
Publishers

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Curated by

Anna Ferraro

Address Piazza del Nettuno, 1/C, 40125 Bologna, Italy

904 editions by participating artists and publishers on edcat

What was design?

Declarations and definitions from a century of creative quest

Play the System

Parametric Approaches in Graphic Design

45 Symbols—Clay to Code

Yearbook of Lettering #2

TEATRIP JAPAN – Auf den Spuren des grünen Goldes

No Known Last Address—Artists’ Postcard Edition

12.00 EUR

The World’s Best Typography, Typography 46

Void.Reflections

Alphabetical Playground

Imagine—Embracing Chaos and Possibility in a Planetary Emergency

100 Beste Plakate 24

Germany, Austria, Switzerland

Graphic Languages

A Visual Guide to the World’s Writing Systems

Slanted Magazine #45—Sex

Spring/Summer 2025

Planetary Realism

Art Against Apocalypse

Support Independent Type II

Slanted Experimental Type 3.0

Molecular Typography Laboratory

La Nonpareille

Tales 35

Yearbook of Type #7

Plant Edition

Some Magazine #19—Ready

Slanted Magazine #44—Type Fashion

Autumn / Winter 24 / 25

FFCGN – Die Macht der Bilder Vol. 4

Film Festival Cologne

REBEL PRINTS—The Poster Rex Manifesto

Timewarp

100 Beste Plakate 23

X/100 — Expect Nothing — Appreciate Everything

Alaska, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York

25.00 EUR

Some Magazine #18–Studio Practice

Slanted Magazine #43—Ukraine

Slanted Special Issue Georgia/Armenia

Das Plakat isst eine Fläche.

Tender Digitality

A Worm’s Eye View From a Bird’s Beak

The Images of Louis Barragán

Aisha

La montagna magica

Stills From Seven Works

to enter the forest

Malanka

Aesthetics Imperfections

How AI is changing the Landscape of Typography

Slanted Magazine #42—Books

Some Magazine #17—Look

Latent Figures

Yearbook of Lettering #1

Les sonorités du monde

De l'écologie sonore à l'écosophie sonore

Exosphere

fortytwomagazine # 6 – beliefs/Glauben

The Interview Magazine for Those Who Wonder

Slanted Magazine #40– Experimental Type 2.0

The Neubad Plakat

A Contemporary Design Phenomenon

Tainted Love

From Nina Simone to Kendrick Lamar

22.00 EUR

Ho Ho Ho Chi Minh

Das gewöhnliche Design

Faksimile der Originalausgabe von 1979

COLLISION

Posters Can Help

What Should I Say – About Seoul

Show Time Book / Book Time Show

Future Book(s)

Sharing Ideas on Books and (Art) Publishing

Feeding on Light

Initium Maris

Auto-Tune Theory

Trap, Drill, Bashment e il futuro della musica

Water Column

The Order of Things

Enquête de flagrance pour musique létale

Yearbook of Type #6 – 2022/23

Movie Edition

finding Forte

A Typographic Search for Traces

The Nest

The CalArts Poster Archive Print

Slanted Special Issue Bavaria

Made in Bavaria

Simulation City

American Bauhaus

Slanted Magazine #39 – Stockholm

Spring/Summer 2022

Homebound – New Wave

An International Collaboration of 75 Designers from 50 Cities and 12 Countries

Mono Moment

Monospace Type Design

Be Water My Friend — B.W.M.F.

Creative Methodology & Graphic Journey

Initium Maris, Deep Sea

The Infinite Library: Books 1–50

Cary Loren – Polaroids 1973-1979

Painted Faces - Broadcast Matrial 1989-2006

Here and Elsewhere

Upstream

The Serving Library Annual 2022/23 (Meander)

30.00 CHF

Letterform Variations

Taxonomy of the Barricade

Image Acts of Political Authority in Paris, May 1968

Film Festival Cologne

Die Macht der Bilder

Slanted Magazine #38—Colours

Autumn/Winter 2021/22

Flexible Visual Systems

By Dr. Martin Lorenz

Count me in!

Cardboard children's counting book

8.50 EUR

Oktoberfest 1984–2019

100 Poster Battle

2020–2021 Students Of FH Dortmund With Lars Harmsen

Please Come: Shameless/Limitless

Selected Posters & Texts 2008–2020

Instant Nudes

Büro Destruct 4

Slanted #37 – A.I.

Poems I Will Never Release. Chiara Fumai 2007-2017

Yearbook of Type 2021/22

Ar/KATE

Mannheim

Teasing Typography

Breakout

100 Posters Book

The Living Museums

PROTEXT!

Woodcut Vibes

The Jumpsuit Theme

New England

AFTERALL (a space mambo)

Roma. Never Walk On Crowded Streets

Kerselare Drawings and Photogrpahs

In memoriam Juliaan Lampens (1926-2019)

Animal Books For Jaap Zeno Anna Julian Luca

Bordered Lives

Immigration Detention Archive

Inhabiting the Negative Space

Future Memories

Prison Museum

Stories, Myths, Ironies

Farben

Don't Follow the Wind

How to know what’s really happening

Zenker

Nsenene

As If

Citizens

Elisabeth Haarr

FAGS

Support Independent Type

the New Culture of Type Specimens

Tea Trip

eine faszinierende Reise durch das Reich der Mitte

fortytwomagazine #5—space

Manifatture

Λ (LAMBDA)

Orto

Leafy House Plants

Morestalgia

Common Tales

Insufficient Armour

Lonely Posters

14.00 EUR

Lonely Postcards

6.00 EUR

Today is Tomorrow’s Yesterday

Monopoli

Questions to Europe

Slanted #36–Coexist

Encoded Symbols

Encoded Symbols

Shape Grammars

Slanted #35—L.A.

Şimdi heißt jetzt

K.H. Drescher—Berlin Typo Posters, Texts, and Interviews

Tokyo Papers

75.00 EUR

Hyperemployment

Photopaper 49

Transylvania, 2020

Sand, 2017

Without You, 2018 / 2020

Texte 4

Postscripts

Falling on blades

Via Lactea

Love, Raisul

Conrad McRae Youth League Tournament

Blumen sind geil

Pursuit of Wonders

The Museum of Mistakes

Beyond Plant Blindness

Seeing the Importance of Plants for a Sustainable World

Human Territoriality

Some kids and their favourite pets

7.00 EUR

Will Feel Eyes on

Slanted #34—Europe

Yearbook of Type 2019/20

Slanted Special Issue – Rwanda

Apollo 11 – The Eagle Has Landed*

Play Life—Neighbors in the Western Balkans

Slanted #33—Prague

Slanted – Limited Prague Special Edition

Photographic Newspaper + Czech Design Map

Sinking Stone

SPEED

Notes on Contemporary Art in Kosovo

Critique in Practice

Renzo Martens’ "Episode III: Enjoy Poverty"

Raising Moths

Attempts at (musical) ekphrasis on Watering a flower by Haruomi Hosono

Belgian Colonial Monuments

Memory Cards 2

Cartels

Tales 105

Itadori River, Seki, Gifu-ken, Japan, July 2019

Full Scale False Scale. A reader of sorts

Notes on Experimental Jetset - Volume 3

Children

Wade Guyton

Dream Sketchbook

Halluzination, Perspektive, Synthese

Cat 2009 / 2019

One

ASS 06 - Size Matters

ASS 07

ASS 05

In The Dark We Live

It's The Image Not The Images

Table with Notional Newspapers

Table 45/49

Jardin

Honesty of matter

Murmur

The Dynamics of Dust

A Die with Twenty-Six Faces

Better be watching the clouds / I want to be able to welcome my father to my house

World Without Us

Belgian Colonial Monuments

Entropy

The Photographic ll: Signal or Noise

Reference Guide