The centro del bel libro ascona offers manual binders, graphic designers, restorers and interested parties with appropriate qualifications a challenging forum for creative debate in both technical and design terms. Course participants can further qualify themselves according to international methods and techniques, deepen their skills and knowledge, check and stimulate themselves, exchange ideas with others and go down paths that are usually denied them in everyday life - in creative practice and self-reflection, far away from everyday work, routine, time and performance pressure.
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The centro del bel libro ascona offers manual binders, graphic designers, restorers and interested parties with the appropriate qualifications a challenging forum for creative debate in both technical and design terms. Course participants can further qualify themselves according to international methods and techniques, deepen their skills and knowledge, check and inspire themselves, exchange ideas with others and go down paths that are usually denied them in everyday life - in creative practice and self-reflection, far away from everyday work, routine, time and performance pressure.
The annually changing course programme, in which current events are continually integrated, includes the classic hand binding such as the Franzband, the technique à la Bradel or hand gilding as a supplement or consolidation of bookbinding techniques. The second focus of the programme is the contemporary design of the medium paper, book covers and cardboard, in which design, technique and materials are mutually dependent on each other and meet functional and qualitative demands.
The specialist further training for restorers and manual binders in the field of book and paper conservation at the centro del bel libro guarantees contemporary, comprehensive competence in theory and practice that is oriented towards international standards. It promotes an understanding of the scientific principles of restoration, restoration ethics, documentation and decision-making.