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We are delighted to announce that Paul Shaw will be visiting SBF on 11 June to deliver a lecture on ‘Reading Type Specimens: From Cicero to Spoonie Highdiddel Ladies’ Cicerone’. It will be held in-person and online via Zoom. Find out more: billetto.co.uk/e/reading-type…

Join us for an OPEN STUDIO this Sunday, 11 February, 11am–5pm at LCBA to celebrate the reopening of the studio after a devastating flood at the beginning of the year.

Siblings by Jay Bernard, Mary Jean Chan, Will Harris, Nisha Ramayya [Assembling LCBA] Order here: monitorbooks.co.uk/books/siblings

Exquisitely designed by Joe Hales with cover art by Max Hales Covers printed and bound LCBA 32pp, b&w photos ISBN: 978-1-7395424-1-2 135mm x 215mm monitorbooks.co.uk/books/siblings

Kotsu is a traditional Japanese tool used to ensure a square edge in bookbinding and box making. Handmade in London by our friends Mentsen and available in ash, cherry and oak londonbookarts.org/products/kotsu #bookbinding #製本

Spring OPEN STUDIO @ LCBA Sunday 5 May 11am–5pm, All welcome! Join us for printing & binding demos; workshop sample sale, 2nd-hand books & books by our favourite independent publishers; catch up w studio members & instructors, & find out about upcoming workshops, events & more!

One space has become available on our Making Books Summer School starting 17 June londonbookarts.org/collections/wo… #makingbooks #bookbinding

Spinorama: An Exhibition of Interesting Spines Curated by Aslak Gurholt & Fraser Muggeridge 5 July–17 August LCBA Opening & Exhibition Talk: 5 July, 6:30–9pm londonbookarts.org

On 7th August we're doing the first ever irl edition of Graphic Negotiations at LCBA, with guests Claire Mason and Matthew Walkerdine. Free but limited places and they're going fast. Book here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/graphic-nego…

Graphic Communication Design in posters, created by our staff team with the support of London Centre for Book Arts LCBA. gcd.studio/pages/graphic-…

On Design: We reflect on Copenhagen Fashion week and highlight a current exhibition LCBA centred on book-spine design bit.ly/4dJfaCT

LCBA will be open as part of Open House Festival for building tours and an exhibition of handmade artist's books and prints by studio member Haein Song on Sat 14 Sept. More info & booking here: programme.openhouse.org.uk/listings/12811

Join us at London Centre for Book Arts for an informal exhibition tour of UN—FOLDED by Haein Song, 3 October at 6:30pm. Free but RSVP required eventbrite.co.uk/e/unfolded-exh…

New talk announcement: Chemical Colour: Evidence for ‘Coal-Tar’ Pigments in British Printing Ink, 1860–1914 With Ian Dooley Wednesday 6 November 2024 St Bride Foundation and Online via Zoom 7–8.30pm GMT To book, please visit: tinyurl.com/chemicalcolour

Join us on 1 Nov at LCBA for a talk by Darryl Lim: 'Lithographic printing and its processes in a nineteenth-century Muslim-Malay world' - free and open to all eventbrite.co.uk/e/lcba-talks-t…

On Fri/1st Nov LCBA is hosting a talk by Dr Wei Jin Darryl Lim - Lithographic printing and its processes in a nineteenth-century Muslim-Malay world. Read more here... …mazingworldatfennerpaper.blogspot.com/2024/10/lcba-t…

This looks fab from our friends at LCBA!

‘Letterpress has its own aesthetic. Handmade paper and an even, black impression make the page a three-dimensional object, not a two-dimensional image.’ Peter Campbell on the history of letterpress printing: lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/…

Our Winter half-price sale continues in January. Times are tough for small publishers at the moment, and all proceeds go back into our work and programme. If you value and want to support the work we do please consider buying some books in the sale! bookworks.org.uk/sale/