Mercè Capell

Mercè Capell

For a baby

This order from Víctor Ramírez is a “divertimento” as he called it. He wanted to give a present to the latest baby in the family, called Freya. He created for her sheets of “words and colors” and then I had…

“La Teca”

The client brought me a cookbook that had belonged to her grandmother. It was in pretty bad shape and inside it there were handwritten notes of recipes. The booklets were reinforced, the edges of the same were “cleaned”, sewed and…

Artist book

This is a special order made by the artist Víctor Ramírez. He asked me to bind his work “Tierra temblar contigo”. And when it came to making a protective case we were considering different options and we thought of doing…

Memories book

This album was a gift from some friends and co-workers to one of them that was changing her profession. They wanted to make a compilation with images of the time spent together, and with the positive message of fighting for…

Final project report

The report of a final project about performing arts had to be bound, specifically about a circus. The client wanted the cover to show the title and the author of that report and brought the drawing of how he wanted…

Artist book

My client wanted me to create a book to give to three different people in which their loved ones could write nice words. The idea was that it would be a 10-sheet accordion with the covers forming some kind of…

Wedding guest book

For this guest book, although it was for a wedding, the customers didn’t want anything overloaded but quite natural. I used white and slightly sparkly TST and on the spine I put some slightly rustic fabric. For the endsheets I…

Old book

Covers were added to this book (it didn’t have them). Its spine was deformed to one side and the sheets were broken, lost, and folded. At the customer’s request, the losses and breakages were preserved and the work was limited…