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.
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: 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.
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.
Casting Concrete with a Urethane Mold
Bounty Archive provides a guide to make a urethane mold of any object, and cast it in concrete. Follow along and learn how to make a concrete replica of any object.
How to Make Concrete Fingerboard Obstacles
Bounty Archive provides DIY instructions on how To make concrete fingerboard obstacles. Learn how to design a mold, pour concrete, and finish your obstacle with this guide.
Making a Clay Wax Seal
Bounty Archive harvests earth and transforms it into a one-of-a-kind wax seal stamp, allowing for a lifetime of undeniably official documents.
Video - Making the Market Day Tote
Video - Follow the entire process of creating the Bounty Archive Market Day Tote. See the craftsmanship behind signature features like the integrated zipper pocket, mesh produce pouch, elastic bottle pocket, and lobster claw key-loop. I hope that you enjoy the sights, sounds, and general sensations evoked by this video and are challenged to use some of the featured techniques to create something.
ULINE POEMS
Join BOUNTY ARCHIVE and Boycott ULINE. Enjoy this series of 3 Poems cut entirely from the Spring/Summer 2022 ULINE catalog.
Market Day Recipe - Carrot Water
Expert chefs will tell you that peeling your carrots when you return from Market Day and adding them to a jar of water will keep them fresh and preserve their crunch! The best-kept secret however, is that the water they are bathed in is the real prize.
Video - Making the BA-1
Video - Follow the entire process of creating the Bounty Archive BA-1 Notebook. See the craftsmanship behind signature features like the discrete magnetic closure, debossed cover, handmade paper, and rear pocket. I hope that you enjoy the sights, sounds, and general sensations evoked by this video and are challenged to use some of the featured techniques to make your own notebooks!
Monkey’s Fist Knot
A master knotsman’s charm with a rich nautical history. Watch Bounty Archive craft the tools required to make one, and then bring the figure to life!