Some books begin long before the first page is designed.
After 8 years of teaching experience and 15 years of self-publishing, I’ve crafted The Artist Book Workbook, a practical and creative guide for anyone wanting to develop an artist book from an initial idea to a finished concept. Through prompts, exercises, and reflections, the workbook helps shape ideas, clarify direction, and make the process feel more intuitive and approachable.
For artists, designers, photographers, students, and anyone curious about books as a form.
The Artists Books Workbook is now available.
15€ shipping worldwide included.
Send me a DM to order! 📖✨
Do you have an idea you’ve been dreaming of turning into a book? Or a project that just needs that final push to become real?
Then the @artistsbooksworkshop
is for you.
We work together in my studio @backbonebooks head quarters, to develop your concept, shape it into a physical form, and create a complete book dummy. You’ll also get the chance to connect with other creatives through feedback sessions and shared studio time.
Together we will turn your idea into a tangible object - where format, paper, and concept go hand in hand.
Next dates:
October 9—11 (weekend) / fully Booked
Send me a dm with your e-mail or comment “info” to get the details
Hands and Flowers
Claudia de la Torre
bsckbonebooks
2016
A collection of hands and flowers taken out from do it yourself Ikebana arrangement books. A homage to the small and beautiful things in life.
12 pages, thread bound, set of five different covers.
15€ + shipping
available. Send me a dm to buy
21 MARCH 2026
Find @backbonebooks at the @itsabook_leipzig
Please join us for the annual gathering of producers in the field of independent publishing at Leipzig's HGB Academy of
Fine Arts on March 21st.
Fair: 12am - 8pm
Symposium: 1pm - 6pm
The focus of this year's symposium: independence. How are autonomous projects initiated, financed, and maintained? What structures enable them— and where do dependencies begin?
Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst
Leipzig
Wächterstraße 11
04107 Leipzig
In 2018, Claudia and I were neighbors and colleagues. I approached her with a concept for an artist book about rejection letters, and as a specialist in bookmaking and editions, she helped breathe life into it. It remains one of my favorite collaborations, from the conceptual spark to selling it together at the Printed Matter Art Book Fair.
Yesterday, things came full circle as I got to photograph her beautiful new studio in Berlin.
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#interiorphoto #architecturephotographer #bookpublishing #interiordesignphotography #naturallightphotography
Un libro es
Postal, A5, impresión en blanco y negro
Edición abierta y gratuita
@backbonebooks , 2025
Voy a Chile, invitada por @megumiandradekobayashi para dar un taller de publicaciones de artista en la @gpa_finis , he estado traduciendo mucho de lo que he hecho al español. Estoy emocionada de volver a Latinoamérica por unos días.
The Waves
Claudia de la Torre
@backbonebooks
2025
Waves is a novel written by Virginia Woolf between 1929 and 1931. The book is structured into nine sections, each composed of soliloquies and introspective passages that reveal the inner thoughts of its characters. Claudia de la Torre’s new book-work takes this novel as its starting point. Her project is driven by a singular concept: each page of her book presents a single mention of color from The Waves as a monochromatic image, arranged in chronological order. In this way, color flows through the pages, forming an abstracted visual narrative—an archive of language. The book’s cover includes two flaps that list every color mentioned in textual form, serving as an index to the 544 mentions found within.
The Waves
Claudia de la Torre
@backbonebooks 2025
The Waves is a novel written by Virginia Woolf between 1929 and 1931. The book is structured into nine sections, each composed of soliloquies and introspective passages that reveal the inner thoughts of its characters. Claudia de la Torre’s new book-work takes this novel as its starting point. Her project is driven by a singular concept: each page of her book presents a single mention of color from The Waves as a monochromatic image, arranged in chronological order. In this way, color flows through the pages, forming an abstracted visual narrative—an archive of language. The book’s cover includes two flaps that list every color mentioned in textual form, serving as an index to the 544 mentions found within.
