by Nicole Baxter | Sep 14, 2017 | Art Book Printing, Publisher Case Studies
It was only a matter of time until someone combined cats on the internet with a Kickstarter coloring book printing, and the end result is predictably wonderful: #EGGSBFF Adult Coloring Book by the artist Jimiyo. Jimiyo is a successful...
by Nicole Baxter | Sep 1, 2017 | Art Book Printing, Book Production, Kickstarter | Crowdfunded
This video shows just some of the steps that go into the making of our short-run hardcovers. Bonus: The soundtrack is our own Bindery Supervisor, Tony Houle, and his band! Short Run Hardcovers Bookmobile offers superior quality short-run hardcover binding. Books are...
by Nicole Baxter | Aug 23, 2017 | Book Production, Publisher Case Studies
We’ve been working with The University of Arkansas Press for over ten years, and just last week Rachel Holscher and I flew down to Fayetteville to pay them a visit. The University of Arkansas Press has said we’re their book printer of choice, so we...
by Nicole Baxter | Aug 17, 2017 | Book Production, Publisher Case Studies
Coffee House Press had a good problem: their hardcover book Stephen Florida by Gabe Habash was receiving excellent reviews and selling fast. Their first run was printed offset, and an offset reprint was underway, but due to the offset printer’s long...
by Nicole Baxter | Jul 28, 2017 | Art Book Printing, Book Production, Publisher Case Studies
Royal Art Books is a new client for Bookmobile—and our first tattoo publisher! This past month we’ve printed, bound, and shipped out two titles, Yours truly, Milt Zeis, which is a new hardcover title, and a reprint of the Percy Walters Catalog,...
by Nicole Baxter | Jun 29, 2017 | Art Book Printing, Kickstarter | Crowdfunded, Publisher Case Studies
Have you ever thought to create your own print coloring book ? Today I Draw Dragons, illustrated by Shelly Loke, is a great demonstration of how to pull off a high-quality, successful coloring book—with the help of a Kickstarter. The Print Coloring Book...
by Nicole Baxter | Jun 22, 2017 | Art Book Printing
We’ve been printing art books for Eric Timothy Carlson since 2015, and we just shipped his most recent title, NYPLPCETC 01-04 (Anthropocene), to Switzerland for Art Basel 2017. Eric has an installation at Printed Matter’s space (see image...
by Nicole Baxter | Jun 8, 2017 | Art Book Printing, Kickstarter | Crowdfunded
Slow Color: A Practical Guide to Natural Dyeing in the North is a Kickststarter nonfiction book written by Pamala Weber and published by Tinderbox Editions. Slow Color is the most recent Kickstarter book printing...
by Nicole Baxter | May 26, 2017 | Book Production, Publisher Case Studies
University of Toronto Press is one of our favorite and most stalwart publishers. One of the largest university presses in North America, UTP has been a small run book printing client of Bookmobile since 2008 and has printed over 950 titles with us (multiple...
by Nicole Baxter | May 18, 2017 | Book Production
This short shows about nine hours of book binding in our book bindery, sped up and condensed to just 50 seconds. (Though the production manager would love it if folks could work this fast.) We filmed on Monday, May 15th, from about 6:00 AM to...