Two Steps Press is the independent publishing project of artist Brian Hitselberger.

Two Steps Press is based in The Weather Station in Lafayette, Indiana, USA. We focus on artist books, exhibition ephemera, and collaborations with other artists.


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Oct. ‘26 - Detroit Art Book Fair @ Vander Detroit
Oct. ‘26 - Pittsburgh Art Book Fair @ Carnegie Museum of Art
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Apr. ‘26 - Creativity in Self-Published Media: Artist Panel on Zines @ Atheneum Visitors Center
Apr. ‘25 - Intro to Riso @ Purdue Knowledge Lab
Mar. ‘25 - Lost + Bound @ Basketshop Gallery
Mar. ‘25 - Duo- and Tritone Riso Printing @ Purdue Knowledge Lab
Feb. ‘25 - One-Page Zines @ Delphi Community School


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UNTITLED PROJECT: COPY SHOP / CONRAD BAKKER

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Title: Untitled Project: COPY SHOP
Artist: Conrad Bakker 
Design: Brian Hitselberger
Printing: SF5130 Riso, Laserjet, BW Xerox
Binding + Assembly: Brian Hitselberger, Kara Lyn Lowe, Mathilda Walley, Nathan Wilkinson


2 booklets, single bifold, and folded double-sided tabloid poster in cardstock file-folder
7” x 5”
4-color risograph, Color laserprint and BW Xerox printing
French Lemon Drop, Banana Split and Sour Apple paper 70lb text/Jellybean Green 65lb Cardstock/Hammermill Multi-purpose 24lb with sticker additions
Bound with blue paperclip
Edition of 150
2026
Illinois-based artist Conrad Bakker is widely known for his "facsimile" sculptures and installations, which re-create the unmonumental objects and spaces of the everyday. For Untitled Project: COPY SHOP, Bakker brought together a wide array of these objects - carved and painted on a 1:1 scale in the artist's studio - and installed them in The Weather Station to re-create a 24-hour copy shop in the gallery.

Bakker’s Untitled Project: COPY SHOP positions the archetypal photocopy service businesses of the 80s and 90s as sites of curiosity, inquiry, artistic production, and nostalgia. "There was something strange, wonderful, and creative in this kind of commercial conjoining," Bakker writes, "where material-making, experimentation, politics and belief might be connected." For Untitled Project, Bakker created full-scale copy machines, tables, signage, and office equipment, all of which merge with The Weather Station's architecture (as well as its previous life as a functioning office) to evoke a shared space from our collective, recent past.

This publication of the same name brings together documentation of Bakker’s Weather Station installation alongside a short essay on the project by curator Brian Hitselberger, discussing the work’s unique relationship to Herman Melville’s 1853 novella Bartleby the Scrivener. Untitled Project: COPY SHOP also includes a poster documenting Bakker’s installation in the gallery bathroom and a special artist book re-imagining Bartleby as a cut-and-paste xerox zine. 

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