Martin Scorsese commissioned us to bind the first, third, and final shooting scripts from his 2002 film Gangs of New York. The three volumes, one for each script, were given three different tones of leather, custom graphic and text debossing in gold foil, raised bands on the spines, and custom printed end pages. What a privilege to work on such an amazing project!

Jennifer Fisher commissioned us to print and bind her CFDA portfolio book for competition in the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) / Vogue Fashion Fund, for which she was awarded as a finalist. Unique elements included black leather, custom logo debossing (blind), lay flat binding, fine-art printed pages, and a matching box with jewelry mounted along the spine. Extraordinary book design was produced by Lucie Kim at MyORB, with photography by Aaron Dyer.

Esteemed artist Robert Gober commissioned us to produce the printing and binding for his limited edition titled Keep Away From the Window (2014). The edition of 20, with 4 artist's proofs, is a handmade book with cast glass (by Deborah Czeresko) and photographs, published on the occasion of Triple Canopy's benefit honoring novelist, short-story writer, and critic Lynne Tillman. 

Courtesy of the artist and Matthew Marks Gallery. Photographs of piece by Jared Buckhieser.

Esteemed art book publisher Granary Books commissioned us to produce printing and binding for the limited edition titled Elevenses, a collaboration between artist Trevor Winkfield and poet Charles North. The signed edition of 30 copies are handmade books with fine-art pigment prints, lay flat binding, and inset pigment prints on the covers.

Acclaimed editor and author Terry McDonnell commissioned us to fabricate a custom slipcase to house a special gift copy of his highly acclaimed memoir of sorts, The Accidental Life: An Editor's Notes on Writing and Writers. The slipcase featured an inset blind debossed leather inscription and was covered in shearling, a beloved material of the recipient.

Womens' shoe designer Sarah Flint commissioned this CFDA portfolio book for membership application to the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA). Unique elements included blue book cloth, custom logo debossing on the front and rear covers (in silver) of the book, lay flat binding, fine-art printed pages, and Flint's signature origami mounted along the spine. Beautiful book design was produced by Francesca Campanella.

Photographer Ryan Liebe commissioned us to print and bind his photography portfolio. Unique elements included a white spine with white custom logo deboss, centered right on a dark blue textured book cloth. Fine-art printed pages and a matching slipcase completed the sharp presentation.

Created for the families of the band Palberta to collect clippings and ephemera, these handmade three ring binders each featured unique book cloth, paper lining, and custom foil debossing (a line art portrait version of the band members).

A colorful collaboration with Granary Books for a limited edition of twenty artist “books” featuring artwork and poetry by Guy Beining, with the editions signed and numbered by the artist. Each set is anchored by twenty full color folios, emulations of Beining’s original pieces printed as archival, double-sided giclee prints, housed in a custom printed paper wrapper within a cloth-covered box. Also included is a hand produced folder containing one of the original works from the series. Box and folder with custom debossing.

The Velvet Wire, an edition of 33 books commissioned by Granary Books "captures the shared energies, lineages, and work of Anne Waldman and No Land, an intergenerational pair of poetic collaborators. The book was designed in the spirit of Bardo Matrix publications, with (giclée page spreads), handmade paper wrappers, Japanese paper tipped in, and metallic elements including a silver foil stamped cover…”, sewn binding with silver thread, and a silver foil stamped vellum jacket. Quotation by M.C Kinniburgh of GB.

One of our trickiest CFDA Fashion Fund Portfolios to date, using silk provided by our client and creating a matching slipcase with cut-out and ribbon handles to really elevate the presentation.

Womenswear designer Ryan Roche commissioned us to print and bind her CFDA portfolio book for competition in the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) / Vogue Fashion Fund, for which she was awarded runner up. The book's unique elements included leather cover and slipcase with blind, custom logo debossing, lay flat binding, and fine-art printed pages, with beautiful graphic design by Elizabeth Ellis.

This one-of-a-kind cookbook was commissioned by Nora Abousteit, founder of Craftjam, as a birthday gift for her husband. The book featured giclee printing, a signature sewn binding, custom backed denim-like cloth and hand embroidery on the cover by Nor herself. With beautiful design by Fernanda Didini.

“Selections from the Jane Wodening and Stan Brackhage Scrapbooks, 1962-1966,” reimagined by Steve Clay and M.C. Kinniburgh, and produced for Granary Books as a limited edition of 25 copies comprising selections from Wodening’s original scrapbooks housed at Yale’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

Archival giclee print spreads hand-hinged into french folds secured by brass post bindings, with green cloth covered boards debossed in gold foil. With lettering by Naomi Harrison Clay.

Award-winning media company Silvergate Media commissioned us to print and bind a unique book as a gift for the creators of the animated series The Octonauts. The book's unique elements included off-white book cloth with large custom artwork debossing (in gold foil), lay flat binding, and fine-art printed pages.

For Laterals, our latest book for artist Tom Penn, we provided image capture, file processing and co-designing in addition to printing and binding. The 13”x13” oversized book features fine-art pigment prints, signature sewn binding, and a printed wrap-around cover, with imagery full of detail, texture and intrigue.

Womenswear designer Recho Omondi commissioned us to print and bind her CFDA portfolio book for competition in the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) / Vogue Fashion Fund. The book's unique elements included Kelly green book cloth with custom logo and title debossing (in gold foil), lay flat binding, and fine-art printed pages.

Womenswear designer MELKE commissioned us to print + bind her portfolio book for competition in the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) Vogue Fashion Fund. The book's unique elements included salmon colored book cloth with white foil, custom logo debossing, mounted fish embroidery, and fine-art printed pages. The box enclosure featured cream bookcloth with a large brand debossing in black foil.

Our mystery author Anonymous commissioned a limited run of 25 copies of this quirky, heartfelt, book of recollections of young love.

Signature sewn binding with printed book cloth cover and blind debossing, vellum and printed newsprint insert, and a printed vellum and envelope insert contained in a pocket at the rear of the book.

Docuvitae commissioned us to create a modern, yet tropically inspired wedding album set for her clients, whose wedding festivities were held on St. Barths. The pastel bookcloths, custom debossing elements, and endsheets echoed the clients’ artfully designed event and integrated seamlessly with the photography in the albums.

The set included 2 photography albums, a folio for preserving the client’s invitation suite, and a clamshell box. Quite unlike anything we’ve done for a wedding before!

Accomplished violinist Sophia Stoyanovich commissioned us to print and bind composer Patrick Stoyanivich’s pieces “Duo”, “Sonata No. 1” and “Sonata No. 2”. Pigment prints on classic crest were bound in deep blue bookcloth, with silver foil custom cover debossings of Stoyanovich’s signature and titles.

This wedding album set includes two archival, lay-flat albums for a couple who celebrated separate Indian and a Greek Weddings over a single weekend. Each volume was bound in Japanese silk book cloth, in tones referencing the palette for each wedding. The albums were custom debossed in gold foil, as was the clamshell box that encloses them. Beautiful wedding photos by Bia Sampaio.

For this unique project, we were commissioned to restore a book of antique tintypes in a state of complete disrepair. The end sheets and tintype windows were scanned, retouched and printed to match the originals. Afterwards, these prints were integrated as necessary into a newly constructed binding, resulting in the seamless restoration of a wonderful piece of history.

Our client’s childrens book Tour de Force, in an edition of 12, with illustrations by Carolita Johnson and design by Coco Shinomiya. Fine-art giclee printed pages, signature sewn binding with pink book cloth, and images inset on the front and back covers.

Such a great commission to create a Single Edition of 27 sets of unbound fine-art giclee printed Folios featuring the drawings of book artist Tim Ely and poems of Whit Griffin, custom debossed Clamshell Storage Boxes, and St. Armand handmade Folio Wrappers by Soho Letterpress.

Womenswear designer Discount Universe commissioned us to print and bind their CFDA portfolio book for competition in the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) / Vogue Fashion Fund. Unique elements included black book cloth, oversized custom logo debossing (in black foil), lay flat binding, and fine-art printed pages. Stunning design by Hamish Smyth at order.

Upon moving into a historic estate, our client was gifted its original guest book from over a century ago, filled with the art and signatures of luminaries such as Theodore Roosevelt. Though in a state of disarray, she wished to create intact facsimiles for her family. The original pages were scanned in high resolution and reproduced as archival giclee prints on rag paper, while the cover art was recreated as 2 separate dies for integrated debossing on leather cover.

Our artist client, Quinrui Hua, hired us to fabricate a fine-art printed image wrap hard cover book with signature sewn binding of her interior pages.

Photographer Christophe Von Hohenberg commissioned us for graphic and binding work to produce this limited edition boxed set of prints. The edition features a custom debossed, oversized purple and lime colored, clamshell box containing photographs taken at the Memorial Service for Andy Warhol at St. Patrick’s Cathedral on April 1, 1987. The set is a tribute to the influential artist and the era he helped shape.

This project involved restoring a very badly damaged 1900 First edition copy of “The Wizard of Oz.” A digital recreation of the spine was made in Photoshop and the printed on book cloth, after which it was affixed to the original and aged with slight of hand to match the front and back cover.

Our client WD Diamonds commissioned us to fabricate a presentation box for displaying the process behind their lab grown diamonds. Designed by @n_rich13, the enclosure opens as a clamshell box but has additional flaps that fold out to hold it open in a propped position, revealing the different stages of diamond creation, an iPad display, and magnetized museum board printed giclee printed cards. Cool piece of trivia: WD Lab Grown Diamonds is the first diamond company in the world to achieve 100% climate neutrality.

Our client hired us to design and fabricate this sophisticated wedding album set. The lay flat fine-art printed album included custom rose gold foil debossed interior title page and cover and was bound with a sandy hued book cloth. A matching hinged box with a recessed compartment at the bottom for storing wedding invitation ephemera completed the presentation.

Our client hired us to create an oversized archival storage box to preserve her wedding dress. The extra thick, walled box featured a fully removeable lid, silk covers, and heavyweight white cotton paper as a lining for the interior.

For an exhibition of works by Rosemary Mayer (1943-2014) at ChertLüdde gallery in Berlin, we created a facsimile copy of her artist book titled “Transitions”. The silk covered, post-bound book, features reproductions of her original drawings and written texts, allowing gallery visitors to tangibly handle and experience the nature of “Transitions”, without the fear of harming the original.

This amazing book was commissioned to honor the memory of a friend lost too soon to an illness. Comprised of stories and anecdotes about the individual, the book was assembled using a signature sewn binding, gold foil debossed endsheets, a page marking ribbon, and custom gold foil debossing on the cover and spine. As a final touch, a matching clamshell box with custom debossing on the cover was created to house the book.

For this project, we were asked us to re-create twelve copies of a World War II prisoner of war journal, which was kept by the family patriarch after his airplane was shot down in Germany. The original journal's cover and pages were scanned, and the files incorporated into layouts that were printed and bound. A dust jacket designed to include historical information about the journal keeper, and a printed folder with loose reproductions of ephemera collected during his internment, make these re-creations incredible family heirlooms.

This restoration of two very rare 1814 volumes of Lewis and Clark’s “Expedition Up The Missouri” required a complete re-creation, archival printing and adhering of their missing spines. Additionally, we were commissioned to create a folio with custom designed inset printed title panel (to house a historic map) and to produce matching a half-leather storage box with custom debossing.

Artist Tom Penn commissioned us to lay out, print and bind a unique copy of his book titled Âme Intérieur.  The single book copy featured fine-art pigment prints, signature sewn binding, multiple gatefolds, and a heavyweight, printed paper wrap-around cover.

Menswear designer Orley commissioned us to co-design, print and bind their CFDA portfolio book for competition in the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) / Vogue Fashion Fund, for which they were awarded as a finalist. Unique elements included two tones of book cloth, custom logo debossing (in red for book cover and yellow for box cover), lay flat binding, fine-art printed pages, and a box (with an accompanying custom printed and sewn application).

Our clients hired us to bind the scanned and printed reproductions of a group of paintings their talented friend had completed during their wedding day. The final book included single-sided hinged prints, which were interleaved with vellum and bound with an elegant japanese silk book cloth and finished with custom gold foil name debossing on the cover.

Artist Tom Penn commissioned us to lay out, print and bind a unique copy of his book titled Ordo. The single copy features fine-art pigment prints, signature sewn binding, multiple gatefolds, and a printed paper wrap-around cover.

Women's shoe designer Chloe Gosselin commissioned this CFDA portfolio book and accompanying materials for competition in the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) / Vogue Fashion Fund. Unique book elements included nude leather cover, custom gold debossing on the cover and title page, snakeskin spine, and fine-art printed pages. A snakeskin covered flash drive and snakeskin printed liner with envelope for her application completed the presentation. With beautiful graphic design by Lukas Friedrich of Luna Design.

A private patron who had written and illustrated a short story commissioned us to print and bind a single book copy. The book's elements included a white bookcloth spine and back, with a printed cover, custom end sheets, and lay-flat spreads on the interior.

Photographer Mikkel Vang commissioned us to print and bind two copies of his 2014/2015 photography portfolio, which was beautifully designed by Katrine Hansen of Geschäft. Unique elements included exposed binder's board book cover with custom logo deboss in blue and matching blue book cloth for the spine. Fine-art printed pages and a slipcase in blue book cloth with blind deboss completed the gorgeous, unique presentation.

This portfolio and clamshell box had such a dreamy palette of pale blue bookcloth with silver debossing, with custom die art designed by our client. A final treatment of inset crystals by Swarovski literally made the portfolio sparkle.

Elegant set of books with multi-compartment clamshell box to house our clients' wedding photographs (captured by Docuvitae) and ephemera. The final pieces included a lay flat fine-art printed photo album, signature bound album for printed matter, and a matching multi-compartment clamshell box with pull ribbon. Custom in-house designed layouts, fine-art printed pages, elegant taupe book cloth, and custom debossing complete this fantastic heirloom.

Womenswear designer Ramy Brook commissioned us to co-design, print, and bind her CFDA portfolio book for competition in the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) / Vogue Fashion Fund. Unique elements included two complimenting book cloths, orange and pearlescent cream, custom logo debossing in gold, lay flat binding, fine-art printed pages, and a presentation box.

Celebrated award-winning designer William Sofield commissioned a limited edition book documenting his work at a private residence in Palm Beach, FL. The signature bound book incorporated orange and blue textured book cloth, with custom debossing in silver, with in-house layout and fine-art printing. A matching slipcase completed the presentation.

After discovering her grandmother's journal dating back almost 100 years, our client wished to re-create a number of copies to share with her children. The original journal's cover and pages were scanned, with the files incorporated into layouts which were printed and bound into book form. As a final touch, we created an archival clamshell box with an inset photo to store and protect the original journal.

Artist Tom Penn commissioned us to lay out, print and bind a unique copy of his artist book titled Siren.  The single book copy featured fine-art pigment prints assembled as gatefolds sewn into a coptic binding, and a heavyweight, printed paper wrap-around cover.

Amy Postle commissioned us to create her 2014 photography portfolio. Unique elements included a post binding to allow for switching images as needed, bright red book cloth exterior with gray bookcloth interior, blind custom logo debossing, and fine-art printed pages with a vellum front sheet.

For this project, we designed and fabricated a set of books to house our clients' wedding photographs (captured by me) and exquisite printed matter (produced by Jodi Rae Design and Lion In The Sun). The final pieces included a lay flat fine-art printed photo album, signature bound album for printed matter, and amatching two compartment hinged box with pull ribbon. Custom in-house designed layouts, fine-art printed pages, blue-silver japanese silk covers, and custom debossing using the clients' wedding graphics made this heirloom extraordinary.

A private patron commissioned us to edit 3000+ images from her family's Safari trip and create a book documenting the breadth of the trip. Layouts were designed in-house and printed on fine-art printed pages. The book's 160 pages were signature bound in leather (lamb skin), with blind, custom debossing, and included custom designed end sheets and a map identifying the routes of travel. For presentation and protection, we designed and fabricated a box using a khaki linen bookcloth, with an inset, leather panel, custom debossed to match the book cover.

For this project, we were commissioned to restore a damaged, antique board game. The split center was mended and missing portions of the game’s face reapplied.

Art advisor Debra Bosniak commissioned this book as a gift for her clients to celebrate their acquisition of Frank Stella’s “Kingsbury Run (2nd Version).” Slate colored book cloth, signature sewn binding, and debossing in beige foil, and fine-art giclee printed pages.

A client who had written and illustrated a children's story commissioned us to lay out, print and bind four book copies. The books' elements included light blue japanese bookcloth with silver foil title debossing on the cover, custom end sheets, and a signature sewn binding.

“Child Refugee of the First World War” recites the story of one of our client’s relatives, who as a child was displaced from Armenia during World War I. We created cover art from a low resolution family photograph and a historical map of the region from 1914 with some Photoshop magic. The cover art was printed on bookcloth, with interior pages printed on classic crest that were sewn into signatures and bound.

Our private patron commissioned us to create a presentation box to house a letter and limited edition book by renowned artist Joseph Cornell. The box was fabricated in blue book cloth, with titling and graphic elements debossed in gold foil on a blue leather label, which was inset on the cover. Additionally, an recessed compartment with a blue ribbon pull tab was created to store the book.

We Are Family Foundation commissioned us to print and bind a book gifted to performer Adam Lambert for his charitable actions on their behalf. Unique elements included black bookcloth, with custom screen printed image and logo debossing in silver, signature sewn binding, silver endsheets, and fine-art printed pages.

This book was presented along with the Chairman’s Leadership Award to James G. Dinan, in recognition for all is work on behalf of the museum. The striking debossing featuring the museum’s facade was especially impressive.

A collector hired us to restore a first printing of Shakespeare’s “Coriolanus,” from 1623. It is one of 235 copies known to survive today and required archival printing and recreation of missing page sections, reconstruction, and a new leather folio fabrication with custom debossing.

We were commissioned to create a journal for a new father, with custom printed chapter headings and lined pages for recording the events of his child's first year. Unique elements included patterned leather with blind debossing, custom endsheets, and spacers to allow photographs to be mounted in the interior.

Billy Delfs commissioned us to create his incredible 2015 photography portfolio. Unique elements included a post binding for changing pages on demand, grass green book cloth exterior and interior, custom blind logo debossing, and fine-art printed pages with vellum front and end sheets.

Our client, a soon to be married groom, commissioned us to design, print and bind a book featuring love letters he had written to his future bride over the course of 2 years. Bound in a blueish gray book cloth and debossed in white, it couldn't be more romantic.

John Dolan regularly commissions us to fabricate custom books for his wedding clients. In this example, a two volume album set and double slipcase were created. Unique elements included a lay flat binding in textured/flecked blue book cloth, with custom silver debossing (on the book spines and slipcase cover), and fine-art printed pages and endsheets.

Jewelry designer Deirdre Featherstone commissioned this CFDA portfolio book for membership application to the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA). Unique elements included purple book cloth, custom logo debossing on the front covers (in silver) of the book and box, lay flat binding, fine-art printed pages, and opal imagery printed on book cloth lining the inner edge of the box as well as the endpages of the book. Beautiful book design was produced by Cara Possemato.

Paige Novick commissioned us to print and bind her CFDA portfolio book for competition in the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) / Vogue Fashion Fund. Unique elements included a gray lay-flat book and black slipcase, each with blind custom logo debossing, and fine-art printed pages.

Photographer Edward Keating commissioned us to fabricate a custom book and slipcase with lay flat fine-art printed pages for one of his clients. The book was signature bound in yellow and purple fabric, with custom silver debossing (graphics and title) and inset medallion on the covers, purple endsheets, and an inner back pocket for housing a custom designed map to accompany the book.

The Authors Guild commissioned us to design, print, and bind a book of tributes and illustrations honoring Sidney Offit, with contributions from Calvin Trillin, Garrison Keillor, Robert Caro, Ralph Ellison, and many more. Unique elements included blue bookcloth cover with custom silver foil debossing, marbled endpages, fine-art printed pages, and a matching slipcase.

Christie's commissioned us to create a presentation box to house George Washington's original Thanksgiving Proclamation document and an accompanying transcription. The transcription was custom designed and printed with archival materials in-house to match the Proclamation's era and sensibility. The box was fabricated with blue leather, with titling and graphic elements debossed in gold foil. Both documents were placed into blue, silk covered matts with fold out panels to permit table top display.

Award-winning architect and interior designer Neal Beckstedt commissioned a limited edition book documenting his work on a private residence on Fire Island, NY. The book incorporated a fine grayish-blue silk cover, with custom debossing in silver, and fine-art printing.

A private patron hired us to fabricate archival storage boxes in various sizes for  protection and displaying of several books in his collection. These boxes were fabricated in half-leather and featured hinged edges and custom stamping (for which deboss dies were prepped in-house and custom made).

Brand developer Berard Associates commissioned us to create boxes for presentations to be made by their client Moroccan Oil. These boxes required large format custom printing on white cloth and hand bound boxes with magnetic closures.

Jennifer Fisher commissioned this CFDA portfolio book for permanent inclusion in the Council of Fashion Design Awards (CFDA) Library, after having successfully made it to the final round of the competition. The book's elements included matte black fabric, a new custom logo debossing (blind), oversewn binding, and fine-art printed pages.

A private patron commissioned us to design, print and bind two volumes of poetry. The volumes were signature bound in two different cloth colors, with silver debossing and ribbon page markers. A double slipcase with pull ribbons and in another different color completed the presentation.

Melissa Joy Manning commissioned us to print and bind her CFDA portfolio book for competition in the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) / Vogue Fashion Fund. Unique elements included brown leather, custom logo debossing in gold, and fine-art printed pages.

For a book celebrating the first year of our clients' daughter's life, we designed and fabricated a book and slipcase with lay flat fine-art printed pages. The book was bound in reddish orange fabric, with custom blue debossing on both the book and slipcase covers, and incorporated scanned ephemera and photographs to uniquely tell the story of their daughter's first year.

For this project, our client collected work from artist friends to make a large format book of original prints as a gift. Each artwork was fine-art printed as a single page on heavyweight fine-art paper and interleaved with a vellum sheet (printed with each artist's name, title, and date). All pages were then individually hinged with paper and bound for beautiful lay flat viewing.