OPEN • SET 2025 Competition & Exhibition
Open•Set Exhibition Schedule
San Francisco Center for the Book
Open Category Books 2025 Exhibition
January 18 – March 24, 2025
Gallery Walk Through with Lang Ingalls January 21, 2025, 6:00-8:00 pm RSVP HERE
In conjunction with SF Art Week (January 18-26, 2025)
Opening Reception January 24, 2025, 6:00-8:00 pm RSVP HERE
Open Category Awards Ceremony
American Bookbinders Museum
Set Category Books 2025 Exhibition
January 11 – March 29, 2025
Binder Process Presentations January 24, 2025, 1:00 pm
(Names to be released soon)
Opening Reception January 25, 2025
Set Category Awards Ceremony 5:00 pm
Binders Dinner 6:00 pm (this event is sold out)
University of Denver – Anderson Academic Commons
Open • Set 2025 Exhibition
May 2 – August 10, 2025
Opening Reception May 7, 2025
PRIZES & AWARDS
OPEN CATEGORY
First Place Prize $3500 Second Place Prize $2400 Third Place Prize $1200
SET CATEGORY
First Place Prize $3500 Second Place Prize $2400 Third Place Prize $1200
HIGHLY COMMENDABLE AWARDS
Given to those bindings that display skillful treatment of an aspect of binding.
INTERESTING USE OF LEATHER AWARD
Sponsored by J. Hewit & Sons. Given by David Lanning. $500 (in GBP equivalent) certificate to be used on any of the Hewit leathers or products on their website.
THE UNIVERSITY OF DENVER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE
Sponsored by the University of Denver, this award recognizes the taste and scrutiny of the OPEN • SET 2025 Jury by purchasing one of the prize-winning bindings designated as most excellent in all aspects of the art of binding and from a submission from outside of the United States; the book will remain in the Special Collections and Archives at the University of Denver.
THE UNIVERSITY OF DENVER BIBLIOPHILE PRIZE
Sponsored by the University of Denver, this award is chosen by a bibliophile named by the University of Denver from among all of the exhibition submissions; the book will remain in the Special Collections and Archives at the University of Denver.