Scrapbook, softcover, 112 pages, 9 x 12", full color digital press, section-sewn and perfect bound, edition of 50, Colpa Press, 2017
"Scrapbook contains pages from Volume One of a series of scrapbooks begun in the 1960s. First in London, then in New York and continuing in San Francisco.
The contents were cut or torn from magazines or found blowing down the street. Also included are a few of my editorial illustrations. Some personal photos complete the collection.
Many of the earliest pieces come from a golden age of editorial photography and illustration, when newspapers first published a colour supplement on Sundays.
This edition ends with a photo of my childhood home. A very black and white beginning to an obsession with so many colourful images."
-David King
San Francisco
The contents were cut or torn from magazines or found blowing down the street. Also included are a few of my editorial illustrations. Some personal photos complete the collection.
Many of the earliest pieces come from a golden age of editorial photography and illustration, when newspapers first published a colour supplement on Sundays.
This edition ends with a photo of my childhood home. A very black and white beginning to an obsession with so many colourful images."
-David King
San Francisco
David King Stencils: Past, Present & Crass!, softcover, 200 pages, 7.87 x 10.04", offset, sewn binding, Gingko Press with KillYr Idols, 2019
"This long-overdue monograph features David King's iconic stencil-only designs, starting with his legendary logo for the UK band Crass and continuing to the present day. Both the artist's process and finished output are on display in this revealing collection, from the covered-in-layers-of-paint stencils themselves to the drawings and designs outlining the thought process and ultimately the final art. Many of these works used multiple stencils and colors to create one-off finished pieces that you're likely to find only within the pages of this book. Includes essays by: Steven Heller, Matt Borruso, Barry McGee and Howard A. Rodman."
Sonambulists, hardcover, 36 pages, 8.25 x 11.75, black and white digital, perfect bound, Apple print on demand, MOsT Books, 2008
During the 2000s with the rise print on demand services, David King began to produce numerous books of photography through services such as Apple Books and Shutterfly. Often these books were devoted to a single subject such as the interior and surroundings of JG Ballard's home in Shepperton,
or images of the puppets from Thunderbirds. The Somnambulists consists of photographs taken from the television screen from what appears to be a 1940s film noir serial – one of King's favorite genres. In the book armed gangsters are seen hiding, emerging from a hole in the floor of a cave, hopping trains, and smoking
cigarettes. These images are interspersed with photographs of mysterious devices and objects often glowing and occasionally on fire.
Secret Origins of the Crass Symbols, softcover, 28 pages, 7 x 7", offset, &Pens Press, edition of 500, 2013
"In 1977, David King designed this logo for his friend's zine cover and later that same friend's band in Essex, England. This book playfully explores this iconic symbol and the mind of the man that created it."
The Sound Mirrors, hardcover, 22 pages, 12 x 12", full color digital, perfect bound, (Shutterfly) 2012
One of the many simple photo books David King made through the popular mid 2000s self publishing book service, Shutterfly. This one depicts a trip to what appears to be the Denge Sound Mirrors in Kent, England.
The Journey, softcover, 124 pages, 7.75 by 11.75", digital press, perfect bound, first edition of 50, signed
and numbered, Colpa Press, 2019
"Colpa Press' third book with David King, The Journey is a collection of collaged images made up from personal and found material. The 'blue' pages in the back of the book are an album of Dave's design work."
Landescapes, softcover, 12 pages, 8.25 x 8.25", pen, ink, marker on paper (original), staple bound, 1970s
This mysterious eight page book is a mock up or proposal with original drawings pasted in. Though undated, the drawings are similar to the illustrations King was doing for Games magazine, Tennis magazine, Scholastic and the New York Times when he first arrived in New York in 1977.