Vern Associates is your editorial, design, and production resource for fine illustrated books and institutional histories.

Vern Associates Inc. stands for clarity of storytelling—in expression, design, and procedure. Our clients want to engage and retain their audience, and rely on us to take them through the steps of customizing and producing their distinctive publications. That completed work—whether history, periodical, catalog, report, or brochure—is a versatile and enduring piece that advances our client's message on every page.

Vern Associates is very excited about the new, noteworthy projects presently in the works. Together, they cover a wide array of subjects and challenges that are stretching our abilities and imaginations. Here are just three:

• The catalog for Paint, Pattern, & People: Furniture of Southeastern Pennsylvania, 1725–1850 will accompany an exhibition at the Winterthur Museum and Country Estate in Wilmington, Delaware (opening next spring). We are designing and producing this large-format, clothbound catalog, which includes more than 300 full-color illustrations. This is our first project for Winterthur.
• Also on the museum front, we are delighted to be working once again with the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts, for which we are editing, designing, and producing a catalog of its Chinese export ceramics collection. This large-format, clothbound, full-color catalog containing more than 275 entries is the result of years of work by William R. Sargent, PEM’s recently retired Curator of Asian Export Art.
• The Orton Family Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to sustained excellence in community planning in small cities and towns across the United States, is another first-time client. The foundation has commissioned Vern Associates to design The Planners Guide to CommunityViz,® a handbook for their flagship GIS software tool for planners.

We will update you regularly about our progress with these and other Vern Associates projects in the works.