Hattie Moss
Paper engineer
Trained as a structural engineer, then spent six years at a London packaging firm designing boxes that open themselves. Designs the mechanisms and builds every dummy.
Studio
Every book starts white.
Before there is any art, we build the book in plain white card: every piece cut, scored and glued by hand, so you can open it, break it and ask for changes while they are still cheap.
Who you work with
Two of us, one cutting mat.
Joel Baptiste
Production
Ran the pre-press desk at a Norfolk printer for eleven years. Turns our dummies into die-lines, glue maps and the notes a factory needs, and goes to see the first copies made.
Prices
What it costs.
Fixed fees for our engineering. Printing and assembly are quoted by your printer; we help you compare quotes.
One spread
£1,200
A white dummy of a single spread and a short report on what it would take to produce. Good for testing an idea before you commit.
3 weeks
A full book
from £9,500
Up to six spreads: dummies, two rounds of changes, art templates, die-lines, assembly notes and proof sign-off.
4 to 6 months to press
One-off pieces
from £4,000
Museum objects, installations, a single book for a single reader. Made by us, by hand.
6 to 10 weeks
Cards & invitations
from £650
A design per card, ready for your printer, with one round of changes.
2 weeks
Questions
Asked before every job.
No. We work with your illustrator, or suggest one. We give them templates with every cut, fold and hidden area marked, and check their art before it goes to the printer.
Your printer. Pop-up books are assembled by hand, so the number of pieces and glue points sets most of the unit cost. We design to your budget per copy, not only to the story.
For printed books, usually a run of 3,000 or more. Below that, a hand-made edition or a single spread in an otherwise flat book can be cheaper.
Yes. Send us a copy. Most problems are a tab that is too short, a piece that rubs, or a fold that needs one more score line.
Start a commission
Tell us what should open.
We reply within a week with a first idea and a price. If you would rather talk, call Tuesday to Friday.
- Email[email protected]
- Phone+44 1603 000 418
- StudioFirst floor, Magdalen Street, Norwich. Visits by appointment.