Podcast for those who create, shape, and believe in books as a powerful medium
CROWDFUNDING
CROWDFUNDING
Season 2 of Book Making as an Art Form is in the making.
The podcast is currently crowdfunding - your support helps us continue documenting the stories behind art books and their makers.
Recorded live at Huis van het Boek during a public event, this podcast is a love letter to the world of art books.
Each episode celebrates the people who bring books to life with their hands, hearts, and ideas.
❤️ Sponsored by Huis van het Boek, Van Heek Textiles, Marc Gijzen, Luminosity Lab, n.k.g. pubications, Susan Michlovitz, Jeremy Jansen ❤️
Founder and moderator:
Justina Nekrašaitė, The Book Photographer
Identity & graphic design: Thom Niessink
Audio editing and music: Drexhage Media | Jasper Drexhage
Venue: Huis van het Boek, Den Haag
Supported: Mondriaan fonds
Listen on:
Season 1
Events
Join our next recording session
with MICHAËL Snitker
14th December,
14:00 - 15:00.
Admission free.
Huis van het Boek, Den Haag
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Ep. 1 Nina Glockner. Beyond boundaries: publishing as art, collaboration, and transformation
Nina’s work is all about performative and collaborative processes, and in 2015, she founded n.k.g. publications, a platform that treats books as "space-time-containers."
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Ep. 2 Reimagining the bookshop with Jhen Chen of Limestone Books.
Limestone Books: from concept to community hub;
Radical experimentation in art publishing: what does It really mean?
The power of local: why Limestone Books prints locally; -
Ep. 3 Invisible hands, visible impact: the craft of lithography with Marc Gijzen
How essential teamwork is in bookmaking;
The story of printing full-color on black paper a dream project come true; -
Ep. 4 From Thursdays to churches: Team Thursday on space, typography, and togetherness
How their friendship evolved into a 12-year-long design partnership;
The joys and frictions of working as a duo - and why 'just keep going' became a guiding principle;
Their views on lingering, and why sometimes it’s more efficient not to be efficient; -
Ep. 5 Holding space, building bridges: Bruno Devos on the art of publishing
Why is a book a home;
The invisible labour of bookmaking;
The blurred lines between publishing, curating, and care;
The fragility (and urgency) of the art book ecosystem; -
Ep. 6 Caring for the microcosmos: Jesse Presse on the art of book distribution
The beginning of Jesse Presse
The invisible labor of book distribution
Building artistic ecosystems through care and collaboration
The dance between artistic vision and commercial reality
New adventures and a new publishing house in town -
Ep. 7 Publishing with care: Eleonoor Jap Sam on books as slow objects
Curiosity as the heart of being
The invisible care behind every book
Sustainability, budgets, and creative freedom
Balancing leadership, motherhood, and legacy -
Ep. 8 The emotional life of a book with Luminosity Lab
Looking and curiosity as a lifelong practice
Moving from poetry and photography into book design
Why does he produce his books in Europe
Cultural support, budgets, and the ecosystems around bookmaking -
Ep. 9 with Michaël Snitker recording in December
