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East 10th St is a tunnel book depicting four intersections in New York’s East Village. An ode to my home. The work features four original watercolor paintings. 23×18cm. A book is a window.
Handmade box housing a belt-driven analog social media feed. Case featuring recessed printed graphics and invisible magnet closure. The golden age of social media is gone, if there ever was one.
An artist’s board book in an edition of 25, featuring 8 hand-painted illustrations. “Simp” follows young Jack, who spirals on a Citibike adventure after sending several unanswered texts to Emily.
A custom large-format book containing over 70 original cyanotype works produced by artist Victor G. Jeffreys II. Bounty Archive makes books for life, not the bookshelf.
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.
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.
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.
A neatly dressed notebook, with its own tailored zip-up jacket. Books have a spine, shoulders, joints, head, tails, and faces. Why not clothes?
A set of four leatherette menu books for entertaining guests at home. A magnetic clipboard inside allows for a new menu every night.
20 original stickers printed on 4x6" thermal labels, bound into a hardcover book with Japanese stab binding. Pushing the Nelko pl70e to its limit.
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.
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.
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.
In this video, Bounty Archive showcases each step in fabricating the BA-Mini Pocket Notebook.
A case with overlapping colored windows closes with a unique metal clasp. Inside is a tidy notebook in the classic style of yotsume toji.
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.
A book designed by Bounty Archive and made in collaboration with Atelier Eiko in Osaka, Japan.
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