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As the digital world rapidly overtakes more and more of our life, one fact still remains.

Designers love books.

We love the texture, we love the intimacy, and some of us even like the smell. Just like silk screened rock posters & letterpress business cards, books never go out of style. To prove this we will bring you on an exclusive tour of one of the most prestigious and well-respected bookmakers in the country right here in the heart of Boston. We'll show you how their exquisitely printed artifacts & centuries old techniques merge with newer digital technologies to bring you the 21st century book.

Here's how to get yours...
Every person who signs up will receive a free hardcover notebook, and those who sign-up before Friday May 21st will get theirs personalized with the first 20 pages printed with their own artwork and a foil print of their name on the cover. And if that isn't enough, you'll get to keep the slug of linotype used to print your name.

Also, as a member exclusive, every AIGA member who attends will be entered into a drawing to receive a hardcover book printed for free.
 

Act Fast! Space is limited!

SIGN UP + SUBMIT YOUR ARTWORK BY FRIDAY MAY 21st!
Here’s how to submit your artwork:
- Images & Text formatted no larger than 6" x 9"
- Files must be PDF format
- Color should be CMYK and at least 600 dpi
- Grayscale should be 600 dpi
- Black text or line drawing should be 600 dpi
- All fonts & images should be embedded, colors converted to CMYK
- For PDFs, select: "PDF/X-1a[2001]" with crop marks

Submit your artwork to: mattbudelman@gmail.com

TOUR INFORMATION:
Thursday, June 3
6:30 pm
Light refreshments

AIGA Members: $15
AIGA Student Members: $5
Non-members: $25
Register now!

Acme Bookbinding
100 Cambridge Street
Charlestown, MA 02129-1228
617 242 1100
Directions
 

About Acme Bookbinding:
Known as a leader in their industry in both skill and craft, Acme bookbinding has been hired by famous artists, heads of state, and corporations alike to leave a distinctive mark on their projects.

Acme Bookbinding with its Harcourt Bindery division is the only bindery in North America that provides large run commercial binding, fine hand binding, short run demand binding, short run book production services, commercial book repair and certified library binding. Its beginnings trace back to 1821, and the J. G. Roberts Company, making Acme Bookbinding believed to be the oldest continuously operated book bindery in the world.

Based in Charlestown, Massachusetts, Acme Bookbinding is a full service bindery, providing edition binding (case binding and perfect binding), library binding, textbook rebinding, legal binding, foil stamping, promotional document supplies and other book binding products. Their newest division, Imaging and Digital Printing, offers facsimile reproduction of out-of-print books and digital printing of On-Demand short run books. Additionally, Acme Bookbinding serves libraries, printers, publishers, lawyers, commercial realtors, and other businesses throughout the country.

Here are some of the most high-profile books made at Acme:
Bhutan, the world’s largest published book
Obama, The Official Inauguration Catalog
100 Year Major League Baseball Book
100 Year Anniversary of Exxon/Mobil
Gates
Ansel Adams
Edward Tufte books

About the Harcourt Press:
The Harcourt Bindery was founded in Boston in 1900. Like its competitors of the time, Harcourt remained small, employing perhaps a dozen workers, of whom many had been trained in Europe. As far as can be told, the Harcourt Bindery was a typical extra bindery of the turn-of-the-century. It has remained so to today, staying as small as it was, a shop of several binders skilled in forwarding or finishing, working by hand with the finest materials in the traditional methods and standards of the craft. Today, the Harcourt Bindery is a unique and rare enterprise in a fast-paced world of digital technology and on-demand printing, maintaining a skill and craft that is timelessly unsurpassed.