The Drawer

The Drawer is the first publication dedicated entirely to drawing.
A bi-annual, open-ended thematic review, The Drawer celebrates the practice of drawing in its broadest possible context, combining contributions from artists, graphic designers, architects, and illustrators with work from a surprising array of musicians, writers, choreographers and filmmakers. What do each of them share? Well, the thing of drawing, of course! And their unique place in its universe.
The Drawer is all drawings, all kinds of drawers, an intriguing proposition...
For each issue, our editors choose a theme based on its potential for creativity or fantasy and inspired by literature, cinema, music or any other engaging aspect of the culture. Contributors are then invited to submit drawings related to the theme.
The Drawer is an open playground for expression and creativity in print.
What is drawing? Who draws? What for, and why? With each issue, we cast a wide net, and ask as much about the state of drawing today as possible through the work of our extraordinary and ever-changing community of contributors.
Visual, portable, manual, The Drawer is meant to delight and inspire. In-print exhibition, miniature art cabinet, The Drawer's modest ambition is to discover and share the endless possibilities of drawing.
The Drawer is brought to you by editor Barbara Soyer, and artist/illustrator/art director Sophie Toulouse.

The Drawer is also a publishing platform for monographic book projects.
 
The Drawer - Under 25
2024
French edition (texts in English and French)
For its 24th volume, The Drawer brings together a selection of drawings by some thirty final-year students from French and international art schools.
The Drawer - Portraits
2023
French edition (texts in English and French)
The Drawer #23, on the theme of portraits, gathers drawings and contributions by some twenty artists and creative people.
The Drawer
2022
French edition (texts in English and French)
The Drawer #22 is dedicated to the drawing notebooks, gathering the notebooks of a dozen artists (Francis Alÿs, Michele Ciacciofera, Louise Hervé, Dominique Ingres, Théo Mercier, Karine Rougier, Ruytchi Souzouki...).
The Drawer - Wall drawings
2022
French edition (texts in English and French)
A review dedicated to drawing, that leaves the artists fairly free. A field for play, expression and creation, The Drawer #21, dedicated to wall drawings, brings together around twenty artists and designers (Linda Berger, Camille Chastang, Lauren Clay, Peter Halley, Clémence Mauger, Peter Soriano, David Tremlett...).
The Drawer - 10 Years
2021
French edition (texts in English and French)
(last copies available!)
A review dedicated to drawing, that leaves the artists fairly free. A field for play, expression and creation based on a single color, the volume celebrating the 10th anniversary of The Drawer brings together around twenty artists and designers (Grégoire Alexandre & Christophe Brunnquell, Jacques Pyon, Fabio Viscogliosi, Philippe Dupuy, Ronan Bouroullec, Giorgio Griffa, Guillaume Leblon, Mathis Collins, Pierre Knop, Jeff Ladouceur, Siro Cugusi...).
The Drawer - Black
2020
French edition (texts in English and French)
Noé Sendas, Hao Shuo, Gaël Davrinche, Jean-Michel Sanejouand, Bernard Buhmann, Claudio Coltorti, Armand Jalut, Petrit Halilaj, Marcos Carrasquer, Oscar Murillo, Szabolcs Bozó, Laurent Ajina, Mizuho Koyama, Chloé Quenum...).
The Drawer - Yellow
2020
French edition (texts in English and French)
Farah Atassi, Ana Benaroya, Ralph Bürgin, Noël Dolla, Henriette von Muenchhausen, Gabriel Orozco, Tessa Perutz, Lee Quiñones, Mira Schor, Saul Steinberg, Yorgo Tloupas...
The Drawer - Rose
2019
French edition (texts in English and French)
Riccardo Baruzzi, Louise Bonnet, Mike Bourscheid, Brice Dellsperger, Florent Dubois, My-Lan Hoang-Thuy, Ryung Kal, Daisy Parris, Hugo Pernet...
The Drawer - Green
2019
French edition (texts in English and French)
Marc Desgrandchamps, Jérémy Liron, Dora Maar, Lisa Oppenheim, Gina Pane, Tere Recarens...
The Drawer - White
2018
French edition (texts in English and French)
A graphic examination of white in its entirety: as a matter, a surface, a space, a light, a movement, an idea.
The Drawer - Parade
2018
French edition (texts in English and French)
Pierre Alechinsky, Antonio Aricò, Katrin Bremermann, Jennifer Caroline Campbell, Corentin Canesson, Catastrophe, Carolin Eidner, Isabelle Ferreira, Louis Fratino, Yann Gerstberger, Clive Hodgson, Lisa Holzer, Alfie Kungu, Miki Leal, Camille Llobet, Alice Louradour, Ohad Meromi, Galina Munroe, Arkadiy Nasonov, Camila Oliveira Fairclough, Jon Pilkington, Jennifer May Reiland, Yannick Val Gesto, César Vayssié, Xavier Veilhan, and the Jean-Claude Sergues Collection.
The Drawer - Amour
2017
French edition (texts in English and French)
Etel Adnan, Dike Blair, Thomas Huber, Dorothy Iannone, Mathias Kiss, Tiziana La Melia, Stéphane Lecomte, Jan Melka, Mario Milizia, Francis Picabia, Vimala Pons, Laure Prouvost, Louise Sartor, Ashley Hans Scheirl, Alice Wietzel...
The Drawer - Untitled
2017
French edition (texts in English and French)
Caroline Achaintre, Nikita Alexeev, Alain Bublex, Marie Cool Fabio Balducci, Duggie Fields, Jean-Luc Moulène, Cécile Noguès, Bruno Peinado, Christine Phung & Mathias Gervais de Lafond, Claude Viallat...).
The Drawer - Crash
2016
French edition (texts in English and French)
Berger&Berger, Anne-Lise Coste, Matias Faldbakken, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Thomas Hirschhorn, Jakob+Macfarlane, Nathalie Du Pasquier, Denis Savary, Alan Vega, Collection Jean-Hubert Martin...
The Drawer - Heroes
2016
French edition (texts in English and French)
Mohamed Bourouissa, Richard Jackson, Martin Kersels, Paul McCarthy, Stéphane Maupin, Richard Prince, Rudy Ricciotti, Alain Séchas, Georges Tony Stoll, Rirkrit Tiravanija...
The Drawer - Paris, Texas
2015
no text
Stéphane Calais, Jean-Charles de Castelbajac, Jochen Gerner, Jean-Charles Massera, Ed Ruscha, Robert Stadler, Laurent Tixador, Collection Antoine de Galbert...
The Drawer - Le Banquet
2015
French edition (texts in English and French)
Josse Bailly, Jean Bedez, Mike Billington, Sofia Borges, Olaf Breuning, James Carl, Matthieu Cossé, Nicolas Couturier, Delphine Gigoux-Martin, Daniel Gordon, the Florence & Daniel Guerlain Collection...
The Drawer - Le rire
2014
French edition (texts in English and French)
Nelly Ben Hayoun, Davide Cascio, Claude Closky, Denicolai & Provoost, Mark Dion, Shirley Jaffe, Daniel Johnston, Pierre La Police, Natacha Lesueur, Théo Mercier, Felipe Oliveira Baptista, Amandine Urruty...
The Drawer - 1984
2014
French edition (texts in English and French)
Edouard Baribeaud, documentation céline duval, Hendrik Hegray, Jean-Baptiste Mondino, Claude Parent, Dominique Perrault, Yvan Salomone, Virginie Yassef, Erwin Wurm...
The Drawer - Les Choses
2013
French edition (texts in English and French)
sold out
Drawings by Pierre Alféri, Yona Friedman, Andrea Heller, Mathieu Mercier, Amy O'Neill, Ugo Rondinone, Roland Stratmann...
The Drawer - Funny Games
2013
French edition (texts in English and French)
Drawings by Marc Bauer, Berdaguer & Péjus, Jonas Delaborde, Richard Fauguet, Akira Horikawa, Martinet & Texereau, Mika Rottenberg, Jérôme Zonder...
The Drawer - Vertigo
2012
French edition (texts in English and French)
Drawings by Dominique A, Catharina van Eetvelde, Jacques Floret, Le Gentil Garçon, Hans Op de Beeck, Didier Rittener, Jacques Villeglé...
The Drawer - La Métamorphose
2012
French edition (texts in English and French)
sold out
Drawings by Dan Amzalag, Lionel Avignon, Gilles Barbier, Kyle Field, Vidya Gastaldon, Nicolas Godin, Laurent Le Deunff, Vincent Loiret, Luke Painter, Françoise Pétrovitch, Hugues Reip, Ruppert & Mulot...
The Drawer - Les temps modernes
2011
French edition (texts in English and French)
sold out
Drawings by Abdelkader Benchamma, Julien Berthier, Cyprien Chabert, David-Ivar Herman Dune & Julien Langendorff, Sophie Gaucher, Michel Hazanavicius, Mrzyk & Moriceau, Sandrine Pelletier, Guillaume Pinard, Chloé Poizat, Philippe Ramette, Taroop & Glabel...
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