This year, Insight Editions celebrates 15 years of creating highly designed and very successful one-of-a-kind products. The publisher’s list of titles reflects a veritable who’s who in the world of entertainment, including as Warner Brothers’ primary partner for all of the Harry Potter film books and packaging HarperDesign’s Harry Potter: Film Wizardry and Scholastic’s the Harry Potter Coloring Book series. The 2005 publication of the limited-edition Dressing a Galaxy: The Costumes of Star Wars marked the beginning of an ongoing partnership with Lucasfilm.
“Because of the boutique nature of our craftsmanship,” says CEO and founder Raoul Goff, “Insight quickly became the go-to publisher for directors, creators, entertainment companies, and sports industries. They choose Insight because of our strict adherence to the vision of putting creativity and quality first and never failing to serve and delight fans.” Launched in 2002 with the publication of Rolling Stones: 40x20 and Between Midnight and Day: The Last Unpublished Blues Archive, Insight’s bestselling titles include World of Warcraft: The Official Cookbook; Metallica: Back to the Front; and the 2016 New York Times bestseller The Journey Within: Exploring the Path of Bhakti. In the past year, Insight has launched two new imprints, IncrediBuilds, a line of 3-D wood models, and Insight Comics, a new graphic novel line.
“I really believe people still want fine-quality books,” says Goff, “books with six or seven colors, high-quality paper and bindings, and inserts that give the books a three dimensionality. We may be rather small compared to some of the competition, but we continue to get the jobs because of the quality of our work.”
Insight Editions holds two in-booth (1521) events today:
Today, 11–noon. A.M. Robinson signs blads of Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Official Grimoire and will do a Buffy-themed tarot card reading.
Today, 2–3 p.m. Samwise Didier signs 100 galleys of Last Winter. Visitors can also put their names in for a drawing to win a 1.5-foot-tall Empire State Building IncrediBuild model. The winner will be announced at the end of the day.
