Book: 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.
Book: Low tide
A crossed-structure notebook printed with whole sardines. A hand-painted fish skeleton interrupts the cover visual. Brass fasteners mark each instance of the fish’s eye. This book smells exactly like you’d think.
Book: 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?
Book: 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.
Book: 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.
Book: TRADE-BA Field Notebook
Commission: Edition of 20 handmade notebooks for Trade Magazine in New York City.
Book: 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.
Book: 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.
Book: 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.
Book: 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.
Book: 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.
Book: 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.
Book: Uchi
A book designed by Bounty Archive and made in collaboration with Atelier Eiko in Osaka, Japan.
Book: 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.