NEWS

A message from Stuart & Louise Brockman, Organisers of the Designer Bookbinders International Bookbinding Competition: "We & the Bodleian have been very busy working on planning for the exhibition, the prize giving, designing & making of the Silver prize, [...]

Following the applications meeting at the Art Workers Guild in London at the end of February, Designer Bookbinders is very pleased to welcome Richard Beadsmoore and Glenn Malkin as Fellows and Ted Bennett, Laura Jamieson, Miranda Kemp, and Amy [...]

We are pleased to say that Designer Bookbinders will be having a stand at the Oxford Fine Press book Fair the weekend of the 5th-6th March in the Examination Schools in central Oxford. Every two years the Provincial Booksellers [...]

We have been fortunate to be offered some videos which we would like to share with you. They will bring you a couple of hours of binding and design escapism! One of the videos is James Brockman giving [...]

Lester Capon, Fellow of Designer Bookbinders and one of the exhibiting members of our current online bookbinding exhibition ABC (Art, Book, Craft) has a new website, Theoc Books, selling secondhand and antiquarian books. Any binders looking for texts to bind for [...]

This is a unique collection of boards designed and made by Fellows and Licentiates of Designer Bookbinders on the theme of architecture. Twenty-nine prominent contemporary binders responded with enthusiasm to Fellow Lester Capon's suggestion for the production of this [...]

Following the online Awards Ceremony on 30th April, a full list of this year's prizewinners and images of their bindings are now available for viewing on the DBUK Competition page.

We are very pleased to have had The Designer Bookbinders UK Competition featured in the online Fine Books and Collections Magazine. Following the Awards Ceremony on Friday 30th April the major award (The Mansfield Medal) was won by Thomas [...]

Lester Capon: 'A little too much is just enough for me' Designer Bookbinders are pleased to announce a new series of online lectures. First up was our new President, Lester Capon. The lecture, held on 27 April 2017, is [...]

Shepherds are looking for a Journeyman bookbinder who has experience of working in a commercial bindery to work in their London Bindery. Please email Alison Strachan on as@bookbinding.co.uk for further details.

Kitty Maryatt will be hosting a discussion with 22 of the US and UK binders who provided contemporary bindings of her re-creation of the 1913 book, 'La Prose du Transsibérien', by Blaise Cendrars and Sonia Delaunay. The binding by [...]

The exhibition, 'Maker's Eye: Stories of Craft' is now open at Crafts Council Gallery (@craftscouncil). Thirteen makers were asked to select up to fifteen objects from the Crafts Council Collection and state why they chose each object. One of [...]