The CODEX Papers journal is dedicated to promoting a broad understanding of the dynamic work being done in the book arts field today. Through a wide range of essays and reviews we aim to support the artists, librarians, curators, collectors, and individuals seeking to engage in a constructive dialog surrounding the handmade book in contemporary art. Our goal is to provoke thought and understanding of the enormously complex and historically rich field of the book arts, book artists, printers and their studios, book collectors, and libraries. We hope to achieve this by giving our readers a variety of writing from a variety of perspectives.

We encourage proposals for future articles, and our editorial brief is to publish articles that promote a clear understanding of the enormously complex and historically rich field of the book arts, including: 

• Scholarly, bibliographical, and historical perspectives on the book; 
• Research, reports, and critical articles on contemporary book arts; 
• Photographic essays documenting studios, ateliers, bookshops and libraries;
• Interviews and profiles with artists, curators, collectors, etc.; 
• Book and exhibition reviews and publishing perspectives; 
• Collecting contemporary book arts; 
• Letters to the editors, opinion, and travel, and other dispatches from the global perspective 

Since 2008, we have continuously published CODE(X)+1 monographs in an effort to maintain and support traditional knowledge and bookmaking skills at the highest possible level. At the same time, we work to document and encourage technological and experimental innovations in current book arts practice. These individual essays and manifestoes are feuilletons, deliberations, and provocations designed to provide a voice to creative artists, writers, printers, and scholars of the book regarding the book as a work of art in the current international dialogue.

The real lead saloon is an informal gathering of artists, writers & printers led by CODEX co-founder Peter Koch. The group meets on Saturdays since early 2021 to design, hand-set in lead type, print, illustrate, and bind the lyrical writings of friends and collaborators at the CODEX Foundation’s Logan Book Arts Center.