Bookbinding
UPDATING DATES- Social (Book)binding
Instructor: Derek Bacchus
Part 2: The Accordion Book, The Stab-Sewn Book ("Japanese"-style), and The Long-Stitch Book
updates coming Dates: October 16th, 23rd & 30th, 2025
Time: 7:00pm – 8:30pm
Fee: $105 plus $15 materials fee due at first class
The idea is to learn a bit about book making, make some books, make connections, have a sip, in a little over an hour plus cleanup for each class. No experience needed.
REDUX Part 1: The One-Sheet Book, The Single-Section Book, and The Flex-Bound Book
Dates: TBD soon 2025
Time: 7:00pm – 8:30pm
Fee: $105 plus $15 materials fee due at first class (cash or check)
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