Course location Ascona

Course location Zurich

Need some space for your ideas, notes and sketches? Would you like to bind notebooks yourself, working with your hands?
In this class you will experiment with binding, covers to your booklets and book binding ideas. We fold, cut, sew, punch and screw. You learn binding techniques and creative approaches which allow you to create single and multi-layer booklets at home.
You will bind a handful of booklets and go home with a stack of your own amazing booklet samples.

Course location Zurich

How to mend tears or losses in the paper, how to repair a partly loose spine of a book, which adhesive can be used, and what is the procedure for brittle paper pages? Working with books is regularly confronting us with all kinds of damage patterns. Some of this damage needs fast and solid treatment to ensure the further use in a library or archive.

Course location Zurich

All designers fold. 
That is, all designers crease, pleat, bend, hem, gather, knot, hinge, corrugate, drape, twist, furl, crumple, collapse, wrinkle, facet, curve or wrap two-dimensional sheets of material, and by these processes of folding, create three-dimensional objects. Folding is one of the basic languages of design.

Course location Zurich

Need some space for your ideas, notes and sketches? Would you like to bind notebooks yourself, working with your hands?
In this class you will experiment with binding, covers to your booklets and book binding ideas. We fold, cut, sew, punch and screw. You learn binding techniques and creative approaches which allow you to create single and multi-layer booklets at home.
You will bind a handful of booklets and go home with a stack of your own amazing booklet samples.

Course location Ascona

The Sewn Boards Binding, developed by Gary Frost, is a relatively new binding technique in which the book opens very well, even with a lined spine. The look is contemporary, and the book is finished without a visible joint between the cover and text block.
This structure gives the book an interesting feel and exceptional flexibility, even with standard thickness boards. We will finish one leather and cloth bound book, completed with a stamped title.

Course location Ascona

In this class, we'll delve into the creative possibilities of tessellation and experience the transformation of the paper sheet into two- and three-dimensional paper sculptures. There will be an introduction to different folding techniques, and we will work with different papers and materials.

Course location Ascona

Learn how to integrate powerful neodymium magnets as practical and playful elements in both book and box structures. We will work with a large selection of magnets in different sizes, shapes, and strengths and integrate them as closures, hinges, or connectors in our work. We will make a series of useful reference models and complete some sample book and box structures that incorporate magnets in different ways.

Course location Ascona

Course location Ascona

Learn a variety of fun and versatile pop-up structures that are cut and folded from a single sheet of paper. In this course, you will create a catalogue of samples and begin to develop your own ideas. We will also learn a binding technique that can accommodate the sometimes voluminous pop-ups into a functional book structure.