bookbinding
Social (Book)binding
Instructor: Derek Bacchus
Bring Some Friends, Make Some Books, No Experience Needed, One Hour + Each
Part 1: The One-Sheet Book, The Single-Section Book, and The Flex-Bound Book
Dates: September 18th, 25th & October 2nd, 2025
Time: 7:00pm – 8:30pm
Fee: $105 plus $15 materials fee due at first class (cash or check)
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Part 2: The Accordion Book, The Stab-Sewn Book ("Japanese"-style), and The Long-Stitch Book
Dates: October 16th, 23rd & 30th, 2025
Time: 7:00pm – 8:30pm
Fee: $105 plus $15 materials fee due at first class
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.
from left to right, samples of: accordion – single signature sewing – one page books – stab sewn