ABOUT VELLUM EDITIONS

About Vellum Editions

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Debra Bradley read Moby Dick for the first time in 11th grade, in a public school in New Jersey. She didn't expect it to stay with her for the rest of her life. It did.

 

Debra is the designer and believes in sharing meaningful ideas and art work as broadly as possible.  She works as a philosopher and finance strategist — two disciplines that share more with Melville than most people admit. Both require you to hold multiple things true at once: the plan and its limits, the map and the ocean beyond it, the rational case and the whale that won't cooperate with it. She started Vellum Editions because she wanted to make something that lived at that intersection — rigorous and beautiful, serious and wearable, a conversation-starter and a private reminder at the same time.

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The artist is Erin Ellis, a Carmel-based lettering artist and natural science illustrator whose work has appeared at the Monterey Bay Aquarium, JPL, and Meta headquarters. Erin brings the same exacting attention she gives to botanical specimens and mineral watercolors to every image in this scarf — which is to say, she takes the whale as seriously as it deserves.

 

Vellum Editions is a small, deliberate operation. We make things slowly and care about what they mean.