LISA VAN PELT

All about the work. I specialize in designing and producing limited‑edition fine press books, artist books, boxes, and paste papers.

My individually crafted bindings are rooted in the traditions of bookmaking and shaped by modern materials and innovations. Design elements for each commission are developed in close collaboration with the artists, writers, printers, and publishers behind the work. Through thoughtful structure and material choices, the reader experiences sensations in handling the binding or case that quietly support the ideas and images held within.

Alongside my bookbinding practice, I also create multidisciplinary work in civic augmented‑reality installations. These projects extend my interest in text, structure, and material storytelling into public and digital space, using AR layers and participatory design to explore how narratives are built, revealed, and re‑experienced in public life.

All about Lisa Van Pelt. I was a student of architecture at Hampshire College, from which I received a BA, and later trained as a hand bookbinder with Claudia Cohen, in addition to working in collaboration with Mark Tomlinson. I continued my studies at the University of Oregon, completing master’s work that expanded my practice in immersive media and civic‑focused AR installations. My background in architecture, book arts, and immersive media informs a practice that moves fluidly between the physical and the digital, between the traditions of fine press craft and the emerging possibilities of civic XR.

I now work in my bindery, located in the middle of an apple orchard in Northern California.

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