ChannelDraw
Gianluca Costantini

CHANNELDRAW STUDIO · INDEPENDENT PUBLISHING

Active Art
Yearbook

A visual archive of drawing as testimony, resistance and civic engagement. The Channeldraw yearbooks collect the images, stories, exhibitions and international projects that shaped each year.

Channeldraw n°1 – Active Art Yearbook 2024 cover

VOLUME 01 · 2024

Channeldraw n°1
Active Art Yearbook 2024

By Gianluca Costantini
Released February 2025 · 20 × 26 cm
168 pages · Hardcover · Full colour · English
€25.00

A visual and narrative archive of 2024: daily drawings documenting human-rights cases, the Columbia University protests, Cornel West’s presidential campaign, the historic prisoner exchange between Russia and the West, and projects created with activists and cultural organisations around the world.

The volume also includes a graphic story by Laura Cappon, an interview by Nick Hilden, work dedicated to Trina Robbins, exhibitions on Palestine and the large-scale femicide installation presented in Udine.

Channeldraw n°2 – Active Art Yearbook 2025 cover

VOLUME 02 · 2025

Channeldraw n°2
Active Art Yearbook 2025

By Gianluca Costantini
Released March 2026 · 20 × 26 cm
136 pages · Hardcover · Full colour · English
Signed and numbered print included · €25.00

A 136-page account of art and social engagement in 2025, bringing together drawings, comics, portraits and visual projects. The book follows international figures, imprisoned artists and journalists, protests, conflicts and campaigns for human rights.

It includes work created for FIFDH Geneva, Amnesty International, the Heinrich Böll Foundation and the International News Safety Institute, as well as portraits of Palestinian Red Crescent workers and photographs from the printing of Zodiac by Ai Weiwei.

Art as a living archive

Published independently by Channeldraw Studio, each volume preserves a year of visual journalism and active art. The series will continue here as new editions are released.

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