Print is alive. And print is more than just sheets on pallets.
The expertise of the world's best bookbinders is compiled in one book for designers who want to explore the multitude of bookbinding techniques to create innovative print products. This book contains everything creative professionals need to know about folding, stitching, and binding to create innovative print products and make book dreams come true.

You want to design and produce books and magazines that make hearts beat faster. Books you won't want to put down. Books that counter the fleeting digital with tangible, tangible arguments. You want to talk to your printer and bookbinder on equal terms – and confidently consider finishing requirements right from the design stage. You want your design dreams to take shape.

With the support of the best bookbinders, publishers and producers in the world, Franziska Morlok and Miriam Waszelewski have analyzed, structured and documented processes, tricks and tips to help you easily overcome the hurdles on the way from page to page .

Print is alive! New, breathtakingly beautiful magazines are booming, authors are becoming self-publishers, companies are founding publishing houses, and publishers are competing with each other to offer the best in terms of design. And print is more than just sheets on pallets.

On equipment and design
This book contains the know-how of the most competent bookbinding professionals, who provided us with a wealth of information and wonderful blind patterns throughout the entire process.

Since the first edition in 2016, sustainability has become a central focus in the production of print objects. The third edition of the book reflects this: The paper comes from socially, economically, and ecologically sustainably managed forests. Both the Gugler printing company and the contents paper are "Cradle to Cradle" certified. Literally translated, this means "from cradle to cradle": sustainable action by all involved in the spirit of the circular economy.

Franziska Morlok and Miriam Waszelewski not only wrote the book, but also designed it superbly. And we owe Matthias Weingärtner the wonderful photos of the blind covers for all the binding techniques. Yes, we actually had a blind cover made for each binding technique presented, so that we could present the book and the bookbinding technique in a comparable way without any distracting content. Thus, the reference book for designers also became a bookbinding bible for bibliophiles.