“Another Way” by Ryan Todd (courtesy of the Zines page on Facebook), is a handstitched illustrated zine, each page with a comical visual pun that is subtly different from the expected norm. It’s super minimalist, and doesn’t seem to have any cover or accompanying text (aside from the back cover credits), which makes these charming, [...]
Entries from November 11th, 2010
Zine Review: Another Way by Ryan Todd
November 11th, 2010 No Comments
Tags: bookleteer · handmade · zines
Diffusion Archive Review: What Type Are You? – A Storycube game by Mandy Tang
November 9th, 2010 1 Comment
This archive review comes courtesy of my fellow Future Jobs Fund employee here at Proboscis, Mandy Tang. The Storycube and accompanying eBook were actually the very first publications she created here – the ambitious concept speaks volumes about her work. Picking a path, the player follows the line around the cube, until they reach one [...]
Tags: bookleteer · diffusion · inspiring uses · StoryCubes
City As Material : River
November 4th, 2010 2 Comments
Last Friday we held our second Pitch In & Publish: City As Material event on the topic of River. We met at Hermitage Moorings in Wapping (where one of the participants is a founder member) and spent a short time introducing ourselves and our interests in the topic. Taking part were Anne Lydiat, Aleaxandra McGlynn, [...]
Tags: bookleteering · collaboration · pitch in & publish · river · sharing · walking
Zine Review – Burger Zines!
November 4th, 2010 No Comments
These extraordinary creations are individually handmade by Stephanie Anderson, cut from paper and card. Each zine is a different burger with varying paper ingredients, and is limited to 20 copies. I suppose these are as far away from the typical imaginings of what a zine is, but innovation and creativity do tend to rock the [...]
Tags: bookleteer · making · pop-up · zines
Diffusion Archive Review: Schedulers by Alice Angus
November 2nd, 2010 No Comments
This illustrated scheduler was created by Alice Angus, whilst experimenting with eBook notebooks. Each month (a page) is adorned with one of her works, and writing spaces for tasks and notes. The simple design framework, coupled with her lovely ephemeral illustrations, combine to be one of the most visually pleasing (and functional) eBooks in the [...]
Tags: bookleteer · inspiring uses · notebooks
Recent Updates and Changes
October 31st, 2010 No Comments
bookleteer members will have noticed a few changes to the site in September and October as we’ve pushed through a series of updates, changes and fixes to the platform. Here’s a quick run down of the most important of these from a member’s perspective, since many more were ‘under the hood’. First Time eBook & [...]
Tags: inspiration · updates · user guide
eBook Observer – Diffusion categories
October 27th, 2010 No Comments
Now that I’ve had the chance to examine some of the eBook projects in greater detail, I thought I’d turn to an examination of the Diffusion website. To do this, I could provide you with a summary what is available on the Diffusion website and its history. Instead, I’ve found that the group of Proboscis [...]
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“Le Dot” zine
October 22nd, 2010 No Comments
Le Dot is an A6, 12 page, black and white zine by Anthony Zinonos. Each page has a clipping from an old photograph, and an orange dot sticker placed in somewhere that interacts with it in a comical way. It’s such a simple idea, but it works surprisingly well. I love how the sparse white [...]
Tags: bookleteer · inspiration · zines
Pitch In & Publish: Streetscapes
October 20th, 2010 3 Comments
Last Friday we had our first Pitch In & Publish: City As Material session at the Proboscis studio, “Streetscapes”. In attendance were Giles Lane, Tim Wright, Anne Lydiat, Fred Garnett, David Jennings and myself. After some introductions and hearing participants particular interests, we started pitching, planning what we would like to see in our collaborative [...]
Tags: bookleteer · pitch in & publish · workshop · zines
Diffusion Archive Review: Perception Peterborough
October 18th, 2010 1 Comment
This set of Storycubes was part of a briefing pack for the Perception Peterborough workshops, set up to develop environmental initiatives and tackle green issues that Peterborough might be facing in the future. Created by Matt Huynh and Proboscis, these beautiful cubes were intended t0 visually display the themes in the project and kick start [...]
Tags: hypercomics · inspiration · inspiring uses · StoryCubes
Pitch In & Publish: Streetscapes – Event Details
October 13th, 2010 1 Comment
This Friday is the first of our Pitch In & Publish sessions based around the theme of City As Material, “Streetscapes”. For those who are already taking part, and for those who might like to, I thought I would break down the structure of the day, and list anything people might want to bring. It’s [...]
Tags: pitch in & publish · zines
HADRÖN – “The Flat Pack Particle Accelerator”
October 11th, 2010 No Comments
I stumbled across this gem when following an excellent Zines page on Facebook, run by Alex Zamora of Fever Zine. An A5, 15 page, black and white illustrated Zine by the Lindström Effect collective, “HADRÖN” is a mock instruction manual for the Large Hadron Collider, in the style of IKEA furniture instructions. The comical idea [...]
Tags: inspiration · zines
Some Recent PPOD books
October 8th, 2010 1 Comment
September was a busy month here at Proboscis and on bookleteer: we sent seven books to be printed via the PPOD service as well as 10 different StoryCubes. The range of publications was very broad, from books about exhibitions and art projects to a book in Arabic about a major archaeological excavation in Sudan and [...]
Tags: bookleteering · eBooks · eNotebooks · examples · inspiring uses · ppod · print on demand · StoryCubes
Case study – James Leach and the Melanesian Project at the British Museum
October 8th, 2010 1 Comment
James Leach is an anthropologist at the University of Aberdeen who has conducted field-work in Papua New Guinea for approximately 17 years. I recently spoke to him by Skype to talk about a project which also involved two of his friends, Porer and Pinbin from the village of Reite, who had travelled to the UK [...]
Tags: anthropology · bookleteering · eBooks · eNotebooks · ethnography · inspiration · inspiring uses
Diffusion Archive Review: The Collected Tweets Of Brandon Cummerbund
October 7th, 2010 1 Comment
I’m going to be delving into the Diffusion archive to highlight my favourite eBooks and StoryCubes on a regular basis, in a bid to showcase how people have used them in exceptional and innovative ways. First off is “Cummerbundery Volume 1: The Collected Tweets Of Brandon Cummerbund” by Russ Bravo, an eBook compiling various tweets [...]
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