Dates for your Diary
Bind 2025 - Preserving the past | Crafting the Future Auckland, New Zealand
12th-14th September 2025
We are thrilled to announce that the next Australasian conference will be held at the Auckland University of Technology in September, 2025. It is the first time the conference has been held in New Zealand since 2014 and will follow the proud tradition of having international and local speakers, exciting workshops, trade tables, site visits and much more.
Underlying everything will be the opportunity to network with fellow bookbinders, book artists, printers, conservators, librarians, calligraphers and anyone else with an interest in preserving the past and crafting the future.
To be held at the Auckland University
Keep checking back for updates and start planning!
*Guild of Book Workers, Standards of Excellence Conference
Graduate Hotel, Iowa City, Iowa
9th-11th October 2025
Presenters
Coleen Curry - An Art of its Own: Dyeing and Texturing Leather for Design Binding
Islam Aly – From Tradition to Transformation: The Evolution of a Book Artist’s Practice
Katherine Beaty – Postcards from Italian Archives: Medieval Stationery Bindings in the Italian Peninsula
Mary Uthuppuru – Fun with Box Making
*Suppliers Fair for the duration of the event
Tours & Events
Amana Colonies: Folk Art Museum visit and Papermaking with Gary Frost
Come One, Come All: A Tour of the Night Circus
Gallery Tour and Talk with the Curators: Paper Engineering in Art, Science, and Education at University of Iowa Libraries Main Library Gallery
Kindred Spirits: 30 Years of University of Iowa Alumni Work
Stanley Museum of Art Tour
University of Iowa Conservation Lab and Libraries Open House
University of Iowa Center for the Book Open House
Special Event: Mix & Mentor Night
Further details available from the Guild of Book Workers
*Codex X - CODEX Foundation International Biennial Book Art Fair & Symposium
The Oakland Marriott, in Oakland, California.
7th-10th February 2026
The Codex Foundation are gathering together a congress of the world's finest private presses, book artisans, artists, curators, collectors and scholars in the spirit of an Old West rendezvous for the fifth biennial Codex International Book Fair and Symposium.
Further information to follow