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.
Video: Making the BA-Mini Pocket Notebook
In this video, Bounty Archive showcases each step in fabricating the BA-Mini Pocket Notebook.
Available Now: Beyond Tee
Shop the latest apparel offering from Bounty Archive, the Beyond Tee.
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.
Restoration: Desk Fan
Video: Bounty Archive restores a rusty 1960s desk fan from the Goodwill electronics department.
Ozu Washi Lamp
Washi paper is distinguished for its qualities of “strength”, “tenderness” and “warmth”. All desirable attributes of lighting as well. Follow along as Bounty Archive makes a hanging lamp from Ozu Washi.
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.
Field Mission: My Octopus Teacher
Bounty Archive travels to Osaka, Japan to train in bookbinding with a masterful sensei in an attempt to unlock powerful knowledge and ascend from the valley of despair. There is only so much one can learn from YouTube.
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.
Paintings Series 5
Paintings Series 5 from Bounty Archive features acrylic offerings “Market Day”, “Fire Insurance Still Life”, and “K Bridge”. Enjoy these artworks made at my home in New York City.
Video - Making the BA-2
Follow along as Bounty Archive crafts the BA-2 by hand. After materializing history’s most structured notebook, 40 more are feverishly produced in an accelerated flow-state. As you watch, bathe in the gentle sunlight of Bounty Archive HQ, and enjoy the sounds of bustling New York as they filter up from the street below.
50 Year-Old Book Restoration
In this video, watch as Bounty Archive gives a facelift to a 50 year-old book, trading its blown-out paper binding for an elegant hardcover with custom gold-foiling.
How to Make A Screw Post Binder
Bounty Archive provides DIY instructions on how to make a screw post binder. This bookbinding tutorial will help you make an elegant portfolio book to display artwork or hold precious documents.
Paintings Series 4
Paintings Series 4 from Bounty Archive features acrylic offerings “Sailboats are for Cheap People”, “Rathaus”, and “Soda”. Enjoy these artworks made at my home in New York City.