Commissioned art book publishing

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You bring the idea. We make the book.

A dedicated editorial and production team takes your work from first idea to finished, printed object.

What we make

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Under our imprint, or invisibly under yours

Our name on the spine, or yours. The same craft either way.

Sample work

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The work is the design. Restrained typography, generous whitespace, big images. The book should feel inevitable, not decorated. Honest objects only. Real paper, real binding, photographed with real light. No perspective-warped mockups, no fabricated case studies.

Tell us about the book

A short note is enough to start.
We reply within two working days.

Prefer a number first?

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What happens next

  1. 1A reply from the editor who would run your book, within two working days.
  2. 2A short conversation about the work, the format you have in mind and your timeline.
  3. 3An indicative range. Nothing is quoted until we have seen the work.

Ten stages,
one pair of hands.

Every book moves through the same linear process. Most projects take four to nine months end to end — we'll tell you where yours sits at discovery.

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Know roughly what you're making?
Get a range in two minutes.

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Sample work,
shown honestly.

Ad Vivum Editions is a new imprint. These are the bindery prototypes we've made to prove the process — real paper, real sewing, real foil.

Bindery prototypes

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The next book here could be yours.

Confidential and white-label projects are only ever shown with written permission — or not at all.

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What a book costs,
honestly.

Art book costs swing widely with extent, print run and finishing — so these are bands, not quotes. Every project is priced individually, and the configurator gives you a range in two minutes.

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Every project is quoted individually. Get your indicative range now.

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What kind of book is it?

Format

Prototype no. 2 on the Work page is 210 × 260 mm, no. 1 is 240 × 300 mm and no. 3 is 280 × 320 mm.

Page extent

Binding

Colour

Print run

Not sure? We’ll use a typical run of 500 and say so.

Is the artwork photographed at print resolution?

Projects like this typically fall between

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An indicative range, not a quote. Every book is priced individually once we’ve seen the work and talked it through.

Page extent

Binding

Print run

Artwork at print resolution

Colour

When do you need it?

Whose name goes on the spine?

Roughly how many images?

Where is the text?

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Does this range sit with what you had in mind? (optional)

Prefer to just write to us?

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Your indicative range

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What happens next

  1. 1A reply from the editor who would run your book, within two working days.
  2. 2A short conversation about the work, your references and the range above.
  3. 3A proper price once we have seen the work. Nothing is quoted before then.

Ad Vivum Editions

Commissioned art book publishing — under our imprint, or yours.

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