Visiting: Designskolen Kolding
A visit to the printing house: Rikke Hansen – graphic designer, teacher, and board member of the Association for Book Craft –
and students from the Design School Kolding.
and students from the Design School Kolding.
Historian of ideas Lars Morell at the printing start-up of a new book: ‘Per Kirkeby – Læsø-møder’ (‘Per Kirkeby – Læsø Encounters’),
published by Boggalleriet Rønde. The book will be released on the author’s 70th birthday, December 9th.
Graphic design: Lars Morell in collaboration with Narayana Press. Below a selection of the more than forty books he has published.
Graphic design: Lars Morell in collaboration with Narayana Press. Below a selection of the more than forty books he has published.
Printing start-up: Oddleiv Apneseth
Norwegian photographer Oddleiv Apneseth and publisher Simone Stibbe from publishing house Skald at the printing start-up of the monograph ‘Oddleiv Apneseth’,
which was printed on three different types of paper.
The book is being published in conjunction with the special exhibition ‘The Third Eye’, which opens on November 6, 2026, in Førde, Norway.
Below the finished book: a hardcover volume with a fabric cover and blind embossing.
Graphic design: Silje Nes.
Printing start-up: Arkitektskolens Forlag
Amalie Lykke Baadsgaard, research assistant at the Aarhus School of Architecture, at the printing start-up of ‘The Welfare-Ecological Potential of Architecture’.
Below: the finished book. Graphic design: Alexis Mark.
Illustrations and layout: Amalie Lykke Baadsgaard.
Binding: Centrum.
Below: the finished book. Graphic design: Alexis Mark.
Illustrations and layout: Amalie Lykke Baadsgaard.
Binding: Centrum.
Printing start-up: Aarhus University Press
Printing plates are being produced for ‘The Necessity of Colour in Greek Sculpture’. Editor Sanne Lind Hansen from Aarhus University Press,
author Jan Stubbe Østergaard, and interns Nanna Amalie Horsager Svane and Marie Liv Villumsen Krog.
Above: the finished book and three pages from the content. Hardcover book with rounded spine.
Published by Yale University Press and Aarhus University Press. Design: Jakob Helmer.
author Jan Stubbe Østergaard, and interns Nanna Amalie Horsager Svane and Marie Liv Villumsen Krog.
Above: the finished book and three pages from the content. Hardcover book with rounded spine.
Published by Yale University Press and Aarhus University Press. Design: Jakob Helmer.
Printing start-up: Rob Hann
Photographer Rob Hann, USA, with proofs for the book ‘Wonder Valley’, with his whimsical landscape images from extensive road trips through the American desert.
On the left, the finished book, published by The Artist Edition, and two spreads.
Black fabric cover with embossed text in white and red. Matte-laminated photographs mounted within blind-embossed areas on the front and back covers.
Light blue endpapers. Graphic design: Martin Farran-Lee.
Printing start-up: Andrew Nadolski
English landscape photographer and designer Andrew Nadolski at the printing start-up of ‘The White Wood’.
The images are reproduced in tritone (two Pantone colors and black).
Above: the finished book, which is published by raft, England.
Hardcover book with spot UV varnish on the title. Thick loose spine.
Photographs, text, and design: Andrew Nadolski.
Printing start-up: Galleri Thordals
Gallery owner Frederik Thordal at the output of printing plates for the Danish-Greenlandic book ‘Det der forbinder os – Ataqatigiinneq’. The book is being published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same name, which will be on display in Denmark from October 1 to December 18, in Greenland from January to March 2027, and in Germany from April to June 2027.
Graphic design: Siff Haar-Lund.
Printing start-up: Bianco Luno
Graphic designer Søren Varming at the printing start-up of ‘We love because HE loved us first
– The Greatest Story’ by Kathrine Lilleør.
Shown here with the endpaper, which was printed using five Pantone colors.
Printer Morten Lindberg to the right.
Book design: Søren Varming, Punktum Design. Published by Bianco Luno.
Shown here with the endpaper, which was printed using five Pantone colors.
Printer Morten Lindberg to the right.
Book design: Søren Varming, Punktum Design. Published by Bianco Luno.
Printing start-up: Snedkernes Efterårsudstilling
The book’s graphic designers Tor Johannesen and Anders Gerning at the printing start-up of ‘The Cabinetmakers’ Autumn Exhibition 2026’.
Tom Petersen is doing the printing.
Tom Petersen is doing the printing.
Printing start-up: Osteria 16
Printing start-up: Forlaget Pellegrina
Glimpses from the press
Books printed at Narayana Press
‘Da kvinderne blev riddere’.
By Ronny Skov Andersen.
Published by Sebro Publishing.
Graphic design: Le Bureau.
By Ronny Skov Andersen.
Published by Sebro Publishing.
Graphic design: Le Bureau.
‘På tværs af Afrika – Knud Holmboes ekspeditioner 1930-1931’.
By Jesper Kurt-Nielsen.
Published by Aarhus University Press.
Graphic design: Formal Settings.
By Jesper Kurt-Nielsen.
Published by Aarhus University Press.
Graphic design: Formal Settings.
‘Maya – The Realm Beneath the Jungle’.
Edited by Kristian Jensen.
Published by Moesgaard Museum.
Graphic design: Louise Hilmar.
Edited by Kristian Jensen.
Published by Moesgaard Museum.
Graphic design: Louise Hilmar.
‘Offcut / Recut’. By Rasmus Fenhann.
Published by Fenhann Furniture.
Graphic design: Anders Huulgaard.
Published by Fenhann Furniture.
Graphic design: Anders Huulgaard.
‘The Power of Fashion in the Roman Empire’. Edited by Cecilie Brøns and Anna Manly.
Published by Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek.
Graphic design: L.A. Graphic Design.
Published by Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek.
Graphic design: L.A. Graphic Design.
‘Sjov i naturen – Aktivitetshæfte / Pinngortitami – Asimi Nuannersumi’.
Spiral-bound reversible book in Danish and Greenlandic
focusing on nature activities for children. Edited by Paninnguaq Kristiansen. Published by the Department of Environment,
Nature, Energy and Research, Nuuk, Greenland. Layout: Maria Motzfeldt.
focusing on nature activities for children. Edited by Paninnguaq Kristiansen. Published by the Department of Environment,
Nature, Energy and Research, Nuuk, Greenland. Layout: Maria Motzfeldt.
See more books printed at Narayana Press
Proof prints for ‘Atlas over farvesammensætninger’ (‘Atlas of Color Combinations’), a Danish edition of the classic Japanese color reference
‘A Dictionary of Color Combinations’ by Sanzo Wada. Published by Kokon. The finished result can be seen here
‘A Dictionary of Color Combinations’ by Sanzo Wada. Published by Kokon. The finished result can be seen here