Design. Art. Literature.
Published Independently.
A design-led publishing studio producing fiction, illustrated works, and print-based systems.
Titles are conceived, written, designed, and produced independently within the studio.
Free shipping anywhere in the continental United States.
New & Upcoming Releases
Owner’s Manual
The Catalog of 2027 Technologies
Owner’s Manual is a beautifully designed artifact from a world that does not exist — a precision-engineered guide to a speculative technology presented with total sincerity. Written and art-directed as if recovered from a near future, it blurs the line between product documentation, conceptual design, and literary fiction. Part design object, part quiet satire, it’s a gift for designers, engineers, and anyone fascinated by how systems shape belief. 8.5×11 Hardcover. 110 pages. 60+ full color images.
The Interval
Colossal discs rise from the oceans and begin rolling inland at five miles per hour. They do not attack or communicate; they simply advance. As identical forms emerge across the globe, governments calculate, institutions adapt, and ordinary people gather at the shifting edge, forced to live alongside something vast and indifferent. The Interval is a literary speculative novel about time, systems, and how humanity reorganizes itself when the incomprehensible refuses to negotiate.
5.5×8.5 Hardcover. 220 pages. Premium cream paper. Author signed.
Perívallo
Volume I The Book of the Living Moon April Release
Perívallo is not a place in the ordinary sense, but a living moon—ancient, self-maintaining, and indifferent to observers. When a dormant spore is discovered beneath Earth’s ocean floor, no ships arrive and no voices speak; instead, a single human mind is briefly aligned with a system that has spent aeons learning how not to damage itself. The revelation is quiet—and irreversible. Book of the Living Moon records that recognition: the difference between a world shaped by competition and one shaped by restraint.
A 92-page illustrated volume with atmospheric graphite plates by Neil Powell.
The Bird Maker
A painterly tale — May Release
A boy walks the forest and learns, slowly, that not everything he makes is meant to stay.
The Bird Maker is a quiet, illustrated story about making, letting go, and the space in between. Set in a forest that does not hurry or explain, it follows a boy who brings small birds to life and begins to notice that some return changed, and some do not return at all. What begins as curiosity becomes a form of attention—one that asks him to see not only what he creates, but what remains.
Designed in the tradition of early twentieth-century books, with illustrations inspired by N. C. Wyeth, The Bird Maker is both story and object—meant to be held, read slowly, and returned to.
Collaborate
On that book you’ve been meaning to make…
The Studio of Neil Powell partners with artists, writers, designers, and independent thinkers to produce finished books — thoughtfully written, rigorously designed, and built for print.
This is not consulting.
It is collaboration.
From concept to manuscript shaping, visual systems, production strategy, and print-on-demand infrastructure, the studio brings the full publishing process under one roof — including the use of modern AI tools to remove friction without compromising authorship.
Small runs. Long runs.
Independent distribution. Direct sales.
Built to exist in the world.
Books purchased directly from the studio arrive differently.
Each copy is signed and packed by hand.
Orders may include small printed artifacts from the studio—bookmarks, receipts, and other pieces that accompany the book.
A quieter way for a book to arrive.