About us
Ideas can be powerful. This book company was one such idea.
Back in 2011, I came across the DO Lectures after watching an online talk about the future of print (my background was book publishing). Later that day, I sent an email to the founders, Clare and David Hieatt, asking if they had considered publishing books by their incredible speakers. We met online less than a week later.
In the spring of 2013, the Do Book Company launched as a new independent publisher with five books: Do Grow, Do Birth, Do Story, Do Improvise and Do Disrupt, followed by another four the following year. Over a decade later, these first books are still in print and continue to find new readers.
From the get go, we've been fortunate to work with artist and designer James Victore who armed us with bold, innovative covers. Our sales representatives at PGUK ensured the books were in the Tate, the Conran Store and the Design Museum, as well as high street and independent bookshops. And we began working with a distributor in America and Perimeter Books in Australia.
Our books are written by experts - all speakers from the DO Lectures - and aim to inspire action and positive change. Focusing on the 'doing' rather than the background theory, they are designed to help creative entrepreneurs, makers and Doers across business, design, wellbeing and sustainable living.
Today, our collection of 40+ books can be found in bookstores around the world, in different languages, and in print, digital and audiobook formats. For each copy sold, a royalty goes to the author and a second royalty goes back to the DO Lectures, helping them achieve their aim of inspiring positive change.
We have been shortlisted, highly commended, and even won, awards. Notably, in our second year of business we were runners up in the Best Brand/Series Identity category of the British Book Design and Production Awards. We've been a Small Press of the Year regional finalist, were highly commended in the 2022 FutureBook Awards and the 2023 IPG awards, and two our of books won their category at the Business Book Awards.
To find out more about what we Do and why we Do it, watch this short film made by Eat Work Art Ltd as part of their 2020 Open Studios, or download our catalogue here.
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Thank you - keep reading and doing!
Miranda West
Founder & Publisher
London, 2025