Book Studio

For your one-stop shop of traditional bookbinding and book repair instructions, go to the Indiana University Libraries website, Repair and Enclosure Treatments Manual. It has a wide variety of techniques, clearly illustrated and explained.

The Book Complimentary class have been playing with pop-up books over this last semester; here are some paper links for future reference. If you know of others, please share them with us!

• Robert Sabuda’s pop-up cards with instructions and templates
• John Patience’s pop-up book resource page
• Peter Callesen’s paper engineering
• Paperform paper design & engineering
• Chinese paper folds & cuts
• Tarquin books on paper engineering and pop-ups
• A reference page on Chinese papercuts of all kinds

For anyone interested in artist’s books, whether making them or administering them, I highly recommend The Bonefolder, an e-journal for the bookbinder and publisher, published by Peter Verheyen and a wonderful team of editors and reviewers. There’s always a great mix of practical instructions, reviews and debate about how books should be classified and viewed. To this date there are four issues; vol 1.2 has a practical overview of the tunnel-book structure and vol 2.1 does the same with flag books, both of which are interesting ways to play with single-page prints in a book form.
Note to ANU School of Art Students: the journal is readily accessible online, but if you want copies of any of the articles, the Book Studio keeps a hard copy printout of the journal in the BS office.