Were you inspired by the miniatures in the exhibit of Neale Albert’s collection at Yale?

Try your hand at it!

Here’s a new international set book competition. The book looks pretty interesting. Below are the details, rules, and registration form. Good luck to all who enter!

Competition rules MBC

Entry form MBC

The Dutch Handbookbinding Foundation (Stichting Handboekbinden) is organizing an International Miniature Bookbinding Competition in 2016/2017. This event is being organized in close co-operation with the Meermanno Museum (the oldest book museum in the world) in The Hague and Private Press De Buitenkant in Amsterdam. The competition will be closed with an exhibition at the Meermanno Museum autumn 2017.

Bookbinders worldwide are invited to enter this competition. The famous Dutch writer Geert Mak will exclusively write the text ( in English) for the miniature book to bind. Moreover, the well-known graphic designer Max Kisman will do the illustrations.

The jury will be made up of a panel of bookbinding experts and book designers who will be looking for a high standard of craftsmanship in relation to the bookbinding process, together with an original and innovative design. The jury will award three prizes for the most beautiful and well-crafted books, € 1000, € 750 and € 500 euros will be rewarded to the first, second and third prizewinner respectively.

All prize winning books will become the property of the Meermanno Museum and will be part of a new collection of miniature books, to be constituted as a result of this competition. Non-winners may choose to donate their entry to the Meermanno Museum (receiving a signed certificate of donation) or to have their entry returned to them after the exhibition.

You are invited to participate. You will find more information in the attachment to this mail and on our website www.stichting-handboekbinden.eu.

For questions and/or additional information you can contact Lidy Schoonens at lidy.schoonens@planet.nl or Tine Krijnen at info@miniatuurboekbinden.nl