Bacchus Editions Open-Book/Make-A-Book Lab

Instructor: Derek Bacchus

August 14 (Single-Signature)

Time: 6:00pm – 8:00pm

Fee: $40 pre-registered/ $50 drop in. All materials (and use of tools) included

Maximum capacity is 8

Have you ever wanted to learn about bookbinding but didn’t know where to start? How about not spending too much either? Well here’s your chance…a drop-in book lab where you can discover – and make – three different kinds of book structures over three months (or just one). Show up when it begins at 6:00 and by 8:00 you ARE a bookbinder.

One of three book structures will be taught each month. Learn the essential secret to making accordion-fold books in July and make a single-signature multi-hole sewn book in August.

You are welcome to bring your own cover weight* decorative papers to use and let’s go! Come get a taste in June, July, and August — and if you love the process, come back in the Fall for a full-day workshop and dive deeper into this paper, needle, thread (and sometimes glue) world. Your friends might not understand, but IYKYK. If they’re nice, and encourage you, they might even get a gift book out of it!

All tools and materials are provided for this workshop.

*Cover weight paper is just heavier weight (thicker for the cover) than text paper which would be the paper inside your book.

Just show up, and be quietly transformed…into a bookbinder.

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Derek Bacchus has been a publishing consultant, creative director, designer, photographer, educator, letterpress printer, and bookbinder. He was a magazine art director for a number of titles, a book publishing design director, and a publisher and chief product officer at a children’s edtech startup.

He has taught for over twenty years, including design history at Parsons School of Design and The Cooper Union (New York); 2-D Design, and Information Design at Cooper Union; and bookbinding at the Pont Aven School of Contemporary Art in Brittany, France. He has design degrees from Parsons School of Design, and Yale University, where he also studied Greek, Roman, Medieval and Renaissance history.