Robin Brandes Design

12/07/2022

Hand Bookbinders of California zoom presentation of our bindings of “Lowlands Away” (including mine 🙂

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zCcNhUrSHKU

HBC’s 50th Anniversary Exhibition includes 17 beautifully bound copies of the set book Lowlands Away.
Presentations by: Robin Brandes, Servane Briand, Samantha Cairo-Toby, Coleen Curry, Lucia Farias, Don Glaister, Karen Hanmer, Vanesa Hardy, Mark Kirchner, Monique Lallier, Paloma Lucas, Elaine Nishizu, Bonnie Norman Thompson, Emily Patchin, Beth Redmond, Laina Tammer, Pamela Wood,

Lowlands Away, from the Old School Press, consists of a series of poems by British poet and artist Adrian Henri that tell the story of a barge lost at sea and a message in a bottle

HBC’s 50th Anniversary Exhibition includes 17 beautifully bound copies of the set book Lowlands Away.Presentations by: Robin Brandes, Servane Briand, Samanth...

11/30/2022

My binding, “2020 Vision” featuring nineteen wood engravers, one collector, and the artists who inspired them. Compiled and introduced by Nigel Hamway. Edited by Peter Lawrence, Nomad Letterpress and the Society of Wood Engravers, 2020. “A year on the press, this book links past with present, and provides a fitting tribute to the skills of the engravers and the part they play in society.” Edition: A/P. 34.5 x 26.5 x 3 cm. Fine binding with laced-in cords. Full leather covering of Harmatan white Katsina goat leather. Black goat leather onlays. Silk end bands. Edge-to-edge doublures made with Harmatan Teal goat leather. Black pig suede flyleaves, Endsheets laser printed with pattern designed by Robin Brandes.

09/22/2022

My binding “Lowlands Away” featured on
The Old School Press. They print and publish new texts in limited editions with specially commissioned illustrations. They use traditional letterpress printing techniques - metal type and fine papers.

09/01/2022

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02/04/2022

Book designed, written and bound by Robin Brandes. Simplified Binding. 179 x 147 x 14 mm. Edition of one. Covered in dark blue Harmatan goat leather with various color leather inlays. Edge-to-edge leather doublures. Suede fly leaves. Leather endbands.

02/02/2022

My completed fine binding: LISTEN, Book design and content inspired by the recording of “The Maids of Cadiz” performed by Miles Davis and arranged by Gil Evans, “Miles Ahead” 1957. Original paintings and poetry by Robin Brandes, San Anselmo, California. Book designed, written and bound by Robin Brandes. Simplified Binding. 179 x 147 x 14 mm. Edition of one. Covered in dark blue Harmatan goat leather with various color leather inlays. Edge-to-edge leather doublures. Suede fly leaves. Leather endbands. The paper is 100% cotton Cheloniidae Rag, designed by master printer, Harold P. McGrath.

11/21/2021

“Sometimes it takes a long time to play like yourself.” -Miles Davis

09/01/2021

Completed binding: The Muse of the Forest
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The Muse of the Forest, Robin Brandes and Ira A. Wagner, RB Editions, 2021, San Anselmo, California. Signed: Ira Wagner. Limited edition no.1 of 8. Designed, printed and bound by Robin Brandes 280 x 215 x 20 mm. Laced-on boards Millimeter Binding covered in 100% Japanese Kozo painted with acrylics a...

08/20/2021

Completed binding: The Muse of the Forest

06/25/2021

My finished fine binding: When in Doubt, Wash! David Blamires, Wood engravings by Chris Daunt. Incline Press, Oldham England. 276 x 183 x 14 mm. Copy number 91 of an edition of 240. Semi limp binding in black goat leather with red foil stamp and white Katsina goat onlay. Sewn on stubs made of laminated black and red Kozo paper. Red eel skin end bands. Red suede doublures. Fly leaves designed and archival pigment printed by Robin Brandes.

When in Doubt, Wash! David Blamires, Wood engravings by Chris Daunt. Incline Press, Oldham England. 276 x 183 x 14 mm. Copy number 91 of an edition of 240. Semi limp binding in black goat leather with red foil stamp and white Katsina goat onlay. Sewn on stubs made of laminated black and red Kozo pap...

04/27/2021

Brilliant