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Our goal at Turtle Light Press is to make aesthetically pleasing, durable books that will last for decades, if not longer. We take our time in every aspect of the craft; we do not rush. As the saying goes, "Slow and steady wins the race." All of our limited edition books - volumes of poetry, photography books, or personal histories, etc. - are painstakingly crafted using the best materials, including acid free papers and museum-quality, pigment-based inks. In designing a book cover, laying out a page, or sewing a binding, we take special care with our work to get it just right in order to please ourselves and our customers. Our book art is meant to be both fun and aesthetically stimulating. Whether we're making a miniature accordion book, an interlocking concertina, or a Japanese-bound photo album, we aim to use unique book structures in order to blend content and form in interesting and evocative ways. We use graphics that are produced either through the use of digital technology or through the traditional arts of printmaking, woodblocks, silk screening, etc. Some of our items could be exhibited in a museum; others are meant purely for fun on special occasions like the centennial of the Borough of Highland Park, N.J. Our digitography items draw from a variety of graphic images provide businesses, nonprofit organizations, towns, and cities with an opportunity to recreate their visual identity. Our designs are innovative, and we always use materials of high quality. We hope to help people celebrate the whimsical, the paradoxical, and the beautiful in images of everyday life, whether in a picture of a pay phone or news machines, a doorway or a street scene. We believe that the work itself and the friendships that we make along the way are just as important as the final product.