Exhibition: A Book is a Window
An exhibition of original book art by Bounty Archive at Blank Mag Books NYC from August 15-17, 2025, featuring more than a dozen original works selected for their window-like motifs.
Dreamy Portfolio
A portfolio made by Bounty Archive, for Bounty Archive. Hidden screw posts, invisible magnet closure, glow-in-the-dark recessed window, wrapped in lush blue velvet.
Spinner Book
A mechanical spinner dial allows for a single book to have two titles. Just another example of the whimsical yet precision-engineered book art that I make in my one bedroom apartment every day using specialized equipment and techniques.
Jacket book
A neatly dressed notebook, with its own tailored zip-up jacket. Books have a spine, shoulders, joints, head, tails, and faces. Why not clothes?
Dinner Menu Set
A set of four leatherette menu books for entertaining guests at home. A magnetic clipboard inside allows for a new menu every night.
Thermal Label Sticker book
20 original stickers printed on 4x6" thermal labels, bound into a hardcover book with Japanese stab binding. Pushing the Nelko pl70e to its limit.
TRADE-BA Field Notebook
Commission: Edition of 20 handmade notebooks for Trade Magazine in New York City.
Sewn-in Micro-slapper
An elegant 96-page micro-slapper featuring a sewn-in binding style, in which the covers are sewn to the first and last signatures of the book. Now this one you’re going to wanna check out.
Clamshell with Glass Button
9cm x 12cm notebook with matching clamshell box. Closure with handblown glass button from Tsubomi Glass Studio in Japan. Good things come in good boxes.
Woven Jelly Book
A coptic-bound notebook with a flexible woven jelly cover. Open this book in direct sunlight, and watch its pages become flooded with dancing golden reflections.
Insane Clasp Book
A case with overlapping colored windows closes with a unique metal clasp. Inside is a tidy notebook in the classic style of yotsume toji.
Wedding Guest Book
This work was made as a wedding gift for two dear friends. A window in the front cover invites admirers to interact with the Spanish hand-marbled paper within. Clever binding allows the book to lay flat, so wedding guests can leave the couple a sweet note with ease.
Massive portfolio
11” x 14” custom screw post portfolio, commissioned by Durham, NC-based tattooer, illustrator, and printmaker Nick Osetek. This book is about the size of a standard large pepperoni pizza.
Fruit Sticker Album
Watch as Bounty Archive handcrafts a unique notebook meant to catalogue fruit stickers. Then, read along and allow Bounty Archive to take your hand and guide you though some of the project’s most striking features.