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Designer Bookbinder Exhibition at Flow Gallery.

May 2008

Once again the Designer Bookbinders exhibition at the Flow Gallery in Notting Hill was a great success, with many bindings sold. This is an excellent venue and the fact that you can handle the books makes this a unique event. If you would like to know about future exhibitions send an email.

You can also check the galley's own website at www.flowgallery.co.uk

Designer Bookbinders Competition 2008

The set book in this year’s competition is a volume of short stories by Daphne du Maurier.  I am working on some ideas for this and hope to have the book ready for the deadline later in the year.

Designer Bookbinders International Competition

A new venture for DB this competition is open to binders in any country. The book, on the theme of Water, has been specially printed by Graham Moss and Kathy Whalen at the Incline Press.  Selected entries from the competition will be exhibited at the Bodleian Library in Oxford in 2009.  I am currently binding a further 150 copies of the book in cloth and paper boards for direct sale to collectors. If you are interested in ording this contact Incline Press. www.inclinepress.co.uk  

For more details on the competition go to  www.designerbookbinders.org

Fine Press Book Fair,

The 2007 fair in November was as lively as ever  with a steady stream of visitors throughout the two days.  The next one will be in November 2009 and will be the tenth of these fairs.