Ediciones «Letra Muerta»

02/10/2025

Fotolibros Venezolanos en el MoMA 🇻🇪📓 Venezuelan Photobooks and magazines at MoMA! 🎊🗽—

Recientemente tuvimos el honor de curar una pequeña selección de fotolibros (catálogos y revistas de fotografía) Venezolanos para la Biblioteca del . Gracias por confiar en nosotros con sus proyectos. Seguimos afianzando nuestros lazos de colaboración y gestión en Latinoamérica y los EEUU. Consideramos que este trabajo es más esencial que nunca en este contexto.
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Recently we had the honor of curating a small selection of photobooks (with some catalogs and magazines) for the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Thanks to everyone who trusted us with their project. We will keep working towards more collaborations and creating opportunities for Latin American initiatives in the US, as this work is becoming more essential than ever.

Photos in this post by

01/13/2025

Hey!!!! We are super excited to announce we are looking for extra help for digitizing and cataloging archival material 🗄️ This is a paid internship! • Flexible hours • On site •

Requirements:
• Spanish (basic/reading)
• Photoshop (basic but not mandatory)
• Airtable (basic but not mandatory)
• Sheets & Docs (basic)
• Experience handling archival material
• Availability for 6 months

No degree needed.
To apply send us an email: [email protected]
Subject: Internship 2025

This is not a design role.
We are unable to sponsor H-1B visa at this moment.

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Estamos emocionadas por compartir que estamos buscando ayuda para la digitalización y catalogación de archivos.

Esta es una pasantía paga.
Horario flexible.
In situ.

Requerimientos:
• Español (comprensión lectora/básica)
• Photoshop (básico)
• Airtable (básico pero no obligatorio)
• Sheets & Docs (básico)
• Experiencia en la manipulación de archivos
• Disponibilidad por 6 meses

Para aplicar, envía un correo: [email protected]
Asunto: Internship 2025

Certificación no obligatoria.
Está no es una posición de diseño.
Lamentablemente en este momento no podemos otorgar visas.

12/07/2024

Come say hi! We are going to be at until 4PM in Greenpoint. There is a great selection of SWANA artwork and books ft.

12/02/2024

Exited to see everyone on Saturday / we will also have cool stuff by and at our table. ♥️🎊

11/12/2024

Exciting news! 🎉🫂 🇻🇪We just moved the studio to a bigger location in Williamsburg. It has been a lot of work but we are incredibly happy. We will have a reading room to better accommodate our community, readers, and researchers that want to come visit. Appointments will be opened soon.

We also have ONE spot left for a book or design project starting 2025 (Feb-April) so if you want to work with us, book a consultation on our website. The link is in our bio. Nov to Jan are fully booked, larger projects are not open until further notice (most likely after April) Thanks to everyone who has supported us, and allowed us to grow, we are specially grateful with our awesome clients and community. Thanks for your trust.

GRACIAS.

10/29/2024

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»Pura Belpré, bibliotecaria puertorriqueña a quien le debemos la inclusión de literatura infantil en español en las bibliotecas de Estados Unidos y la primera versión escrita de La cucarachita Martina, cuento antillano de tradición oral. El premio más importante de literatura infantil otorgado a autores latinos en el país, lleva su nombre. A floating island of garbage tu alma, papito«

Del muro de

10/16/2024

En Frankfurt, compartiendo espacio con libros de y otros diseñadores talentosos. Muchas gracias por las fotos.

Autores .studio 🇻🇪 🇵🇸

10/02/2024

We are happy to share this collaboration we made with • • •

This is a special limited edition (each different) that we made with Luis Cobelo. The collaboration began a year ago when he hosted his show in our studio in Williamsburg. “El Informador (1996-1999)” is a unique photo album intervened with collages, photomontage, and drawings. The series refers to his work as a photojournalist in the 90’s in Venezuela, showing ludic parallels between found objects and photos taken for and from the news.

The archival case we designed has a series of dry stamped giclée prints. This was designed by our team ( + ) in the city of New York in 2024. We decided to include his ID card from when he worked in the press to recreate the aesthetic of a file folder. The metal closures are similar to the same metal finishing in filing units and to many quotidian materials used in some newsrooms back in the day. The endpapers and envelope inside are also similar to the shades of newspaper but acid free. was in charge of the production of the box.  

Pics in the post by

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Cobelo was born in  Acarigua, Venezuela. After a 20-year career as a photojournalist in the Americas, Asia, and Europe, his work is currently focused on art and the production of photobooks and exhibitions.

09/17/2024

We made it, we won! 🥂🎉🎈
Last week we received the news that our book “Crania” by Adalber Salas Hernandez (with drawings by Jesus H. Verano and Translated by Robin Myers) won the highest achievement in the editorial category (The Grand Prix )in the Latin American Design Awards celebrated in Brazil. We are beyond honored and really grateful with the people involved: Javier Aizpurua, Cory Rockliff, Ufuk Sahin, Graciela Yáñez, and everyone who purchased the book and believed in us.

Special thanks goes to Katherine Gomes for representing us in the ceremony. 🇧🇷🇻🇪🇻🇪🇻🇪

As a big surprise we also received a second award for best Venezuelan studio. We are receiving it as a reminder of how all of us are part of the country, the ones still living there, plus others like us, in exile. We think it’s fundamental to acknowledge how much more complex it is to run a studio inside of Venezuela with so many variables. We want to honor the tradition of amazing designers that our country has helped shape, and we do not take this recognition lightly.

We hope to continue supporting and representing our community and colleagues from abroad as much as we can. This is just the beginning.

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¡Ganamos!

La semana pasada nos dieron la noticia de que que nuestro libro «Crania» escrito por Adalber Salas Hernandez (con dibujos de Jesus H. Verano y traducido por Robin Myers) ganó el “Grand Prix”, el mayor premio en la categoría editorial del Latin American Design Awards, celebrado este año en Brasil.

Nos sentimos muy honradas y agradecidas con nuestros colaboradores que incluyen a Javier Aizpurua, Cory Rockliff, Ufuk Sahin, Graciela Yañez, Paola Senseve, además de todas las personas que adquirieron el libro y difundieron esta labor creyendo en nosotras.

Queremos agradecer especialmente a Katherine Gomes por representarnos en la ceremonia de premiación.

Adicionalmente nos fue otorgado, sorpresivamente, el premio como mejor estudio venezolano. Siendo un recordatorio de cómo se pertenece a un país desde dentro y en el exilio como nosotras y muchos otrxs. Queremos sin embargo señalar que estamos conscientes que los estudios con base en Venezuela enfrentan escenarios con muchas otras variables más complejas, y que por lo ello además esperamos honrar la tradición del diseño de nuestro país. Este reconocimiento no lo tomaremos a la ligera.

Seguiremos apoyando y representando en la medida de lo posible a nuestra comunidad y a nuestros colegas alrededor del mundo. Este es solo el comienzo.

08/07/2024

“¿Come usted, señor presidente? Tú eliges un alimento. Introduces los alimentos En la boca y los mezclas con la saliva. Los alimentos masticados pasan Por tu garganta. Todo lo que comes baja por Un largo tubo: tu esófago. Los alimentos llegan A tu estómago. Todo lo que tú tragas, Él lo digiere.” ? —El Gran Viaje Del Señor C**a (2004), Angéle Delanouis y Marie Lafrance.
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07/17/2024

07/17/2024

MoMA! 🗃️🗄️🎊We are really happy that most of the books we have published are now part of Archives and Research Center. A little over a year ago, our publication on Karmele Leizaola (1929-2021) became part of their collection. Now our feature with Katherine Small Gallery on Víctor Viano + the Carlos Cruz-Diez’ catalog made with Archivo Fotografía Urbana Museo Reina Sofía & Atelier Cruz Diez. This selection includes all our archival + literary publications from 🇻🇪Venezuelan authors and even a passport from the project “Bound” by Faride Mereb from the exhibit co-curated with Fabiola Delgado with support of Washington Project for the Arts. Books by Gabriela Kizer, Luis Moreno Villamediana, Lynne Shapiro and Adalber Salas are also included.

Group effort with foundries involved like or drawings by .studio and more. Same goes for all the authors, photographers and translators involved.

These books will be soon available for research and consultation. Make sure to make an appointment and to spread the word! This was made possible because of the independent efforts of our team. No larger foundations were involved. Cheers!

Photos from the post by Samoel González

06/27/2024

Este finde en Venezuela estarán todos nuestros libros disponibles para consultas y varios títulos en venta. Los esperamos en

Agradecidas por la invitación.

06/26/2024

Miyó Vestrini (1938-1991) will be celebrated in France this weekend with 🇻🇪🇫🇷

“…if she is a Plath, we think she is one who would have set Ted Hughes on fire.”

Vestrini’s selected poems, Gr***de in Mouth, translated into English by Anne Boyer and Cassandra Gillig, was published by Kenning Editions and Letra Mu**ta in 2019, then later Patrick Durgin’s English translations of Vestrini’s early poems originally written in French. To celebrate the release of the French language collection of Vestrini’s work, translated by Clara Briceño Zappacosta, a reading in three languages. At EXC Librairie, Passage Molière, 75003 Paris, 7:00 p.m. on Saturday, June 29th.

Miyó Vestrini, « la Sylvia Plath vénézuélienne ».

Pour célébrer la sortie de l’anthologie Gr***de dans la bouche, traduite en langue française par Clara Briceño Zappacosta, publié par le formidable extrême contemporain, une lecture à l’EXC Librairie, Passage Molière, 75003 Paris. 19h le samedi 29 juin. Avec Patrick Durgin (traducteur de French Unpublished Poems & Facsimile, Kenning Editions & Letra Mu**ta) et Clara Briceño Zappacosta. Lectures en français, anglais, et espagnol.

05/22/2024

05/22/2024

Dos de nuestros libros están de finalistas en Latin American Design Awards. Estamos muy contentas y agradecidas. Seguimos trabajando 🇻🇪🇻🇪🇻🇪🇻🇪

Two of our books are shortlisted in the editorial design category of Latin American Design Awards. We are beyond honored.

https://ladawards.org/2024/en/page/home