Freddie Baer

Typesetting & Graphic Design

Freddie helped out many projects of interest with typesetting, graphic design, & related work. This is an incomplete list of published projects she assisted with. (See also index of published collages.)

Magazines / Zines (serials):

Publishers:

  • AK Press
  • Autonomedia

Individual publications (monographs – books, chapbooks):

  • 1988, Nobody Loves a Visual Arts Critic by Anni Ackner (Pretzel Press [Mike Gunderloy], Rensselaer, NY, 1988) (Typography and design by Freddie Baer)
  • 1989, How Deep Is Deep Ecology? with an Essay-Review on Women’s Freedom by George Bradford (Times Change Press 1989) (editing, layout, and graphics, with daniel g. of San Francisco)
  • 1995, Bisexual Politics: Theories, Queries, & Visions, ed. by Naomi Tucker with Liz Highleyman and Rebecca Kaplan (Harrington Park Press, 1995) (Cover design)
  • 1995, Social Anarchism or Lifestyle Anarchism: The Unbridgeable Chasm by Murray Bookchin (AK Press 1995)
  • 1995, The Early Homosexual Rights Movement (1864-1935), 2nd ed by John Lauritsen & David Thorstad (Times Change Press 1995) (typesetting & design)
  • 1995, Ecofascism: Lessons from the German Experience by Janet Biehl & Peter Staudenmaier (AK Press 1995) (typeset & design)
  • 1996, The Friends of Durruti Group: 1937-1939 by Agustin Guillamón, translated by Paul Sharkey (AK Press 1996, prev. published in Barcelona) (Design and layout work)
  • 1996, What Is Situationism? A Reader, edited by Stewart Home (AK Press 1996) (Typesetting and design)
  • 1996, Tales from the Clit: A Female Experience of Pornography, edited by Cherie Matrix (AK Press 1996) (Design and layout work)
  • 1996, The Struggle Against the State and Other Essays by Nestor Makhno, edited by Alexandre Skirda (AK Press 1996) (Typeset and design)
  • 1997, Against the Megamachine: Essays on Empire and Its Enemies by David Watson (Autonomedia 1997) (“Freddie Baer has once more worked mightily to present my work, providing art and designing the book. This is our fourth book collaboration.”)
  • 1997, School’s Out: Poems Not for School by Benjamin Zephaniah (AK Press 1997) (book design & layout work)
  • 1998, Seizing the Airwaves: A Free Radio Handbook, ed. by Ron Sakolsky & Stephen Dunifer (AK Press 1998) (Cover collage, book design, & layout work)
  • 2001, To Remember Spain: The Anarchist and Syndicalist Revolution of 1936 by Murray Bookchin (AK Press 2001) (Typeset & design)
  • 2002, Facing the Enemy: A History of Anarchist Organization from Proudhon to May 1968, by Alexandre Skirda, translated by Paul Sharkey (AK Press 2002; Paris 1987). (Design and layout work)
  • 2003, Nastor Makhno: Anarchy’s Cossach: The Struggle for Free Soviets in the Ukraine 1917-1921 (AK Press 2003)
  • 2008, Partisanas: Women in the Armed Resistance to Fascism and German Occupation (1936-1945) by Ingrid Strobl (Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag 1989; AK Press 2008) (“Special thanks to Freddie Baer for years of work and for her great help in getting chis book published.”)

  • 1994, Booklet with “This Inheritance Must Be Refused” (1994). Originally released as a one-side LP by Hopscotch Records in 1994. Available at https://council-records.bandcamp.com/album/this-inheritance-must-be-refused. (Words & Graphics by: John Yates, Alexandra Kolontai, Crito, Lisa Lost, Men Against Sexist Sex, Freddie Baer, Ace Morgan, Donovan, Seana, Girlfiend, Andy Smith, and Attack) (“And what a splendid cover collage by Freddie Baer! John Heartfield meets Gustave Doré. I wonder if there’s a book of his [sic] work…” – Michael Faber, Listen: On Music, Sound, and Us (Hanover Square Press 2023))