Design For Today is a small press and publisher, launched in the summer of 2015, with the aim of working with designers and illustrators to create limited edition books, cards, and printed pleasures for the discerning collector and enthusiast.

Design For Today’s artists’ books are all designed, crafted and printed in the UK, using quality, sustainable materials and printed using the traditional processes of lithography, letterpress, screenprint, or linocut.  Editions are small, from 500 – 1500. Tomorrow’s collectable books today!

Aside from our Artists’ books Design For Today also reissue ‘forgotten classics’ of mid-century design, contemporary European classics of illustration, and books devoted to aspects of 20th Century design and illustration, crossing the boundaries between academic dissertation and coffee-table publications.

Design For Today was founded by Joe Pearson, an established collector and writer on mid-century lithography. If you seek Design For Today’s inspiration look no further than Noel Carrington’s Puffin Picture Books, John Piper’s textiles, the fun of Bruno Munari, or the graphic design of the avant-garde Russian Children’s books.

We’re often asked what we do, and why. The answer is to give some pleasure, fun, alongside printing responsibly and locally. In an age where almost every book seems to be printed in China, this is a path we will never follow. We print locally, using materials made ethically and responsibly. We hope you approve!