Our collection of artists' books includes work made by Otis students in the Laboratory Press. The Lab Press was begun in 1984 by Sheila de Bretteville, then Chair of the Communication Design and Illustration Department at Otis/Parsons, and Susan King, Simon Toparovsky, Cynthia Marsh, Rebecca Chamlee, and Katherine Ng, all important book artists, have been among the faculty over the years.
This collection is a unique collection of books, often produced in small editions of two or three, and provides particularly good examples of innovative structures, experimental typography, and interesting content. Student book work produced in the Lab Press currently is through courses that are part of the Book Arts Minor sequence and include Introduction to Letterpress and Bookmaking Projects.