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12 Rosebery Avenue
London EC1R 4TD
United Kingdom
02073360880
London Bookbinding specialise in designing and creating bespoke books, custom portfolios, presentation boxes and specialty folders. By combining innovative design with detailed craftsmanship we succeed in making unique presentations and portfolios structures for discerning creative agencies, fine artists, architects, construction companies, designers and global brands across the world. Our work ranges from traditional structures to innovative and cutting edge solutions for pitch and proposals, tender submission and various presentation documents.
All the great reasons why books should never die!
“They look like copies of paper, but they can’t be designed or typeset in the same way as paper, and however splendid the cover images may look on a hi-res screen, they’re still images rather than physical things.”
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Paper Dragon Books specializes in fine and design bookbinding and was founded in 2005 by bookbinder Gavin Dovey. The bindery, in the Bay Area of California, produces traditional and modern trade, fine and design bookbinding, producing custom work for individuals and corporate clients.
Cotton Mill Studios
1091 Calcot Place, Oakland, California
Books, Books, Books..how wonderful does this look? Bookshelf wallpaper has become so popular these days..we're so glad to be in the business of creating beautiful bespoke books here at London Bookbinding..long live the books and bookshelf digital wallpapers.
Rodeo Galley - Soho, came to see us about their up-and-coming exhibition Gentle Madness conceived by their artist Banu Cennetoğlu. Her concept was to get newspapers from different places all over the UK and get us to bind them into case bound books in alphabetical order with foiling on each of them. The x46 books are now on show until the 29th November at Rodeo. (located at 123 Charring Cross Road in London.)
BOOKS ARE MY BAG is a nationwide campaign to celebrate bookshops. This collaboration between publishers, bookshops and authors and is the biggest ever promotion of bookshops. Read more..
14th October 2014 – 3.30pm to 5.30pm
An opportunity for prospective students of Arts Postgraduate courses in Book Arts, Conservation, Designer Maker, Fine Art Digital, Illustration and Printmaking to find out more about the courses, meet staff and students, and view the facilities.
Please Note: Booking is required.
Camberwell College of Arts, 45-65 Peckham Road, London SE5 8UF T: 020 7514 6302
Reading for your own pleasure, in places quiet or loud, in relative comfort, preferably without interruption, the book you've been meaning to read for months (perhaps years), and which has been on your shelf, waiting for you to have time. The bookbinders craft and the readers mind become one for the very first time.
London Bookbinding supplies bespoke boxes and books for Film props, TV props and Stage props. Our sister company London Display Graphics supplies large format printing, cardboard engineering and printing onto leather, wood and brushed aluminium.
Isn't this just great!
Random House has released a book of Dr Seuss’ lesser known stories that have largely been forgotten.
Titled, Horton and the Kwuggerbug and more Lost Stories, these four short stories were originally written forRedbook magazine in the ’50s.
Those familiar with his work will remember characters like Horton the elephant and the Grinch who almost stole Christmas—it appears that they will come to life once more between the pages of this book.
http://designtaxi.com/news/369190/A-Newly-Released-Dr-Seuss-Book-Of-His-Lesser-Known-Lost-Stories/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFRcMwdch7c#t=39
An impressive collection of antique bookbinding machinery,
The American Bookbinders Museum was founded by Tim James, a commercial bookbinder who became fascinated with the craft’s history while he was amassing and upgrading his equipment. Researching and acquiring vintage materials became a dedicated hobby, but as his collection of machines, books and periodicals became more massive it raised the question of what he was supposed to do with all of it. The answer was to use these resources to mount an authentic, fully-functional 19th century-style bookbindery.
Animation (BA Hons) - School of Art
The course is designed to appeal those who are interested in taking a more conceptual approach to animation practice in the broader context of film, art, design and architecture. Workshops and studio projects led by practitioners across a range of disciplines, enable undergraduates to expand thinking about animation as a set of skills that can be applied to a range of new and emerging professional practices, as well as more established career paths in television, film, advertising, computer games, visual effects and pre-visualization.
http://www.thecass.com/courses/undergraduate/ba-hons--animation
London Metropolitan University
166-220 Holloway Road
London N7 8DB
Shepherds offer a diverse range of short and long courses at their store in Gillingham Street, Victoria, London SW1. Courses are designed to facilitate both beginners and advanced students from beginner’s bookbinding to leather master classes. They offer two box making workshops and several different alternative binding structure courses. Shepherds also offer a great mix of art courses and printmaking courses.
Shepherds are an approved centre for awarding City & Guilds 'Level 2 Certificate in Design and Craft - Bookbinding'. Three locations in London: Gillingham Street, Victoria - Curzon Street, Mayfair - Rochester Row, Victoria
Bookbinding Materials, Bookbinding Supplies, Bookbinding Courses in London.
Born Cambridge, 1972. Degree - Imperial College, London, 1995 – BEng Honours Mechanical Engineering. Trained full-time as a bookbinder with James Brockman from 1995.
Has taught workshops and lectured in the UK, Canada, Finland and the USA. Organised and taught a series of courses at Oxford Brookes University Summer 2001, including Full Leather Covering, Full Vellum Covering and Gold Finishing. Has since taught gold finishing courses in the bindery attached to his home in Oxfordshire.
Has been awarded various prizes in The Bookbinding Competition 1999, 2000 and 2002 including first prize (Open Choice) in 2000. Overall winner of the 2004 National Library of Scotland Elizabeth Soutar bookbinding competition.
A speaker at The Society of Bookbinders’ conferences, training seminars and regional events (1999 – present day), topics have included setting up a bindery, gold finishing, onlays, inlays and Designer Bindings. Organiser of The Society of Bookbinder’s International Biennial Competition.
Elected Fellow of Designer Bookbinders 2004. Currently on both the Executive Committee and the board of Designer Bookbinders Publications. Has modern bindings in a wide range of private collections worldwide and The British Library.
In 2000 set up and ran a bindery for a customer in Chile. Judge for the De Golyer Bookbinding Competition, Bridwell Library, Texas January 2006, followed by teaching a series of courses across the US.
Since 2000 has worked alongside James Brockman trading as James and Stuart Brockman Ltd taking restoration and conservation work of rare books and manuscripts as well as Fine Binding commissions.
Pom Harrington, owner of his father’s antique bookshop, Peter Harrington Rare Books.
Whatever technological advances, the principles that determine what makes a book valuable remain the same. “It could be the greatest-looking book in the world,” says Harrington, “but if no one likes it, no one cares. You want desirability of the text, then the first printing, then the rarity. For example, around 4,000 copies were first printed of Winnie the Pooh, but it became very popular so they issued 26,000 copies so the price goes down by a third in the second printing.
While Pom Harrington has been involved in the sale of books worth £500,000, the vast majority go for a couple of thousand pounds, coming from a select group of popular authors; Roald Dahl, JK Rowling, Winston Churchill (of whom the shop is something of a specialist), AA Milne, Ian Fleming, and Jane Austen (“who I just can’t get enough of. I’d sell them every day if I had them”).
See more at: http://bespoke.cityam.com/april-2014/article/tome-travel#sthash.yUPwX21p.dpuf
Peter Harrington Rare Books
100 Fulham Road, London SW3 6HS
