Drei Stack

Drei Stack is an independent publishing and book design studio based in Seoul. Working outside the conventions of large-scale publishing, we develop small-run publications through fluorescent printing and handmade binding.

We work with illustrators, graphic artists, and visual storytellers to produce small-run publications through fluorescent printing and handmade binding. Each project begins with an artist's original work and develops into a publication shaped by its own structure, materials, and production process.

Books published by Drei Stack are designed, printed, and bound in-house. Because fluorescent inks behave differently from digital images, the printed result contains colors, textures, and visual effects that only appear on paper. These characteristics are treated as part of the work rather than technical limitations.

The form of each book is determined by the content it contains. Binding methods, page structures, paper stocks, and printing techniques are selected individually for every project. Some books require unfolding, tearing, or rearranging pages, while others use unusual formats or construction methods. In each case, the physical object becomes part of the reading experience.

All publications are produced in limited quantities. This allows each project to remain closely connected to its original concept while avoiding the standardization associated with large-scale publishing.

Drei Stack views publishing as a process of making. Through printing, binding, and book design, we produce editions that exist between artist books, graphic works, and independent publications.

Lee changheon, 툰호수 Thunersee, Drei Stack, 2026 © Lee changheon

While recalling the story that discarded iron weapons gathered during wartime gave the lake its turquoise color, I imagine the weapons hidden beneath the water.

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Na junheum, Extra Body, Drei Stack, 2026 © Na junheum

Extra Body is a work in which images collected from the internet are collaged, and the empty spaces between them are connected through drawing, thereby creating a new context for the images.

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Speaking nonsense through graphics. This is a designed fictional academic journal that compiles metaphysical plant phenomena. The book introduces plants that draw nourishment from immaterial elements such as memory, decay, time, energy, and belief, through both text and images. Meanwhile, this book was produced with minimal environmental impact. It makes use of leftover paper (therefore, each copy contains different types of paper), and from binding to packaging, no chemical adhesives or binding glue were used. Following a traditional East Asian bookbinding method, it is bound and fastened entirely with thread.

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