Book: Clamshell with Glass Button
9cm x 12cm notebook with matching clamshell box. Closure with handblown glass button from Tsubomi Glass Studio in Japan. Good things come in good boxes.
Book: Woven Jelly Book
A coptic-bound notebook with a flexible woven jelly cover. Open this book in direct sunlight, and watch its pages become flooded with dancing golden reflections.
Video: Making the BA-Mini Pocket Notebook
In this video, Bounty Archive showcases each step in fabricating the BA-Mini Pocket Notebook.
Book: Insane Clasp Book
A case with overlapping colored windows closes with a unique metal clasp. Inside is a tidy notebook in the classic style of yotsume toji.
Book: Wedding Guest Book
This work was made as a wedding gift for two dear friends. A window in the front cover invites admirers to interact with the Spanish hand-marbled paper within. Clever binding allows the book to lay flat, so wedding guests can leave the couple a sweet note with ease.
Restoration: Desk Fan
Video: Bounty Archive restores a rusty 1960s desk fan from the Goodwill electronics department.
Ozu Washi Lamp
Washi paper is distinguished for its qualities of “strength”, “tenderness” and “warmth”. All desirable attributes of lighting as well. Follow along as Bounty Archive makes a hanging lamp from Ozu Washi.
Book: Uchi
A book designed by Bounty Archive and made in collaboration with Atelier Eiko in Osaka, Japan.
Book: Fruit Sticker Album
Watch as Bounty Archive handcrafts a unique notebook meant to catalogue fruit stickers. Then, read along and allow Bounty Archive to take your hand and guide you though some of the project’s most striking features.
Video - Making the BA-2
Follow along as Bounty Archive crafts the BA-2 by hand. After materializing history’s most structured notebook, 40 more are feverishly produced in an accelerated flow-state. As you watch, bathe in the gentle sunlight of Bounty Archive HQ, and enjoy the sounds of bustling New York as they filter up from the street below.
Making a Clay Wax Seal
Bounty Archive harvests earth and transforms it into a one-of-a-kind wax seal stamp, allowing for a lifetime of undeniably official documents.
Video - Making the Market Day Tote
Video - Follow the entire process of creating the Bounty Archive Market Day Tote. See the craftsmanship behind signature features like the integrated zipper pocket, mesh produce pouch, elastic bottle pocket, and lobster claw key-loop. I hope that you enjoy the sights, sounds, and general sensations evoked by this video and are challenged to use some of the featured techniques to create something.
Video - Making the BA-1
Video - Follow the entire process of creating the Bounty Archive BA-1 Notebook. See the craftsmanship behind signature features like the discrete magnetic closure, debossed cover, handmade paper, and rear pocket. I hope that you enjoy the sights, sounds, and general sensations evoked by this video and are challenged to use some of the featured techniques to make your own notebooks!
The Life of A Tompkins Obstacle
Tompkins Square Park (TF) has been the beating heart of street skateboarding in New York City for more than three decades. This Bounty Archive Experiment examines the life of Tompkins' ledges, ramps, and rails by building and closely monitoring the deterioration of a simple DIY box.
Fruit Stickers
The fruit sticker becomes an interesting medium when you consider the motive of the designer. Every fruit sticker exists somewhere in a matrix of Artfulness and Utility. Bounty Archive explains the design of produce stickers and the impact they have on the environment.