… And ways to document events and projects A few days ago we published a ScrapBook made at the Vintage Festival for a project Proboscis is participating in called Graffito – a collaborative iPhone/iPad app that lets people draw on a shared canvas. It was used in the Warehouse tent (which had a 1980s theme) [...]
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ScrapBooks as Tangible Souvenirs
August 31st, 2010 No Comments
Tags: drawing · eNotebooks · examples · experiments · inspiration · making
Tales of Things
August 20th, 2010 2 Comments
Andy demonstrating Tales of Things at Be2Camp Brum 2010; via Meshed Media Today’s post is another presentation I heard at Be2camp Brum 2010 last week. (It was truly an inspiring and thought-provoking day!) Tales of Things was presented by Andy Hudson-Smith from the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, UCL. Tales of Things explores social memory [...]
Tags: augmented · book · electronic · inspiration · making · sharing
Kevin Harris: eBook Treasure Hunt
August 18th, 2010 No Comments
eBook Treasure Hunt at Manningham library; via neighbourhoods.typepad.com Even though the eBook Treasure Hunt took place in 2009 I hadn’t come across it until I was looking for projects for my talk at Be2camp Brum 2010 last week. I used this project to help me explain the idea that eBooks facilitate shared making. I thought [...]
Tags: eBooks · eNotebooks · libraries · making
The collage illustrations of Dave McKean
August 12th, 2010 2 Comments
Last week I began to draft a post about digital artist Dave McKean’s illustrations. I was planning to return to the half-written post when I got an email from Giles saying did I know that Dave McKean illustrated a piece of writing for COIL (the Journal of the Moving Image which Giles founded and edited) [...]
Tags: augmented · creative writing · drawing · electronic · inspiration · making
For the love of a book shelf
August 2nd, 2010 Comments Off
Photographs of Macleods secondhand bookstore, Vancouver, Canada and a bookshelf, from bookshelfporn.com As if to emphasise James Bridle‘s point that books-as-objects act as souvenirs of the reading time, a few days ago I came across the blog bookshelf porn. The premise of the blog is simple – it shows photographs of bookshelves, contributed by readers, [...]
Art Space Tokyo: Shared Making
July 30th, 2010 No Comments
Art Space Tokyo is an intimate guide to the Tokyo art world by Ashley Rawlings and Craig Mod and a very beautiful book describing the buildings and neighbourhoods of 12 distinctive Tokyo galleries. There are maps for each of the areas, illustrations of the galleries by Nobumasa Takahashi (the cover is a composite map of [...]
Tags: book · design · drawing · electronic · inspiration · making · sharing
How can you have a pop-up book on the iPad?
July 28th, 2010 1 Comment
This was the question I typed into Google as I wondered how the iPad, Kindle and other eBook readers (or rather, developers of eBooks for these platforms) might accommodate the tangible properties of books such as size, paper type, pop-up illustrations and so on, that vary from book to book and make paper books such [...]
Tags: augmented · electronic · inspiration · pop-up
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July 27th, 2010 No Comments
I’m not sure if Choose Your Own Adventure books count as shared making or shared reading (or both?) but I would certainly claim it as an augmented reading experience. The Choose Your Own Adventure series of children’s books was published by Bantam books between 1979 and 1998, however, the format was used for several other [...]
Tags: augmented · book · bookleteering · inspiration
James Bridle: Bookcubes and bookleteer API
July 26th, 2010 1 Comment
A set of Bookcubes generated using the bookleteer API James Bridle of booktwo.org was one of the participants at the Pitch Up and Publish: Augmented Reading a couple of weeks ago, and he talked a little about the idea of books as symbols and the related BookCube project he’d done using the bookleteer API. Here, [...]
Tags: API · augmented · book · bookleteer · cube · electronic · examples · inspiration
Shared making of the Oxford English Dictionary
July 23rd, 2010 1 Comment
Yesterday I wrote about Storybird and how it enables a form of shared making through an online interface using email to notify authors when it is their turn. This reminded me of a very definitely non-technological example of the shared making of books.. Making the Oxford English Dictionary From when the gargantuan project of compiling [...]
Tags: book · inspiration · language · making · shared
Storybird – collaborative storytelling
July 22nd, 2010 No Comments
Storybird is a website where you can create your own online illustrated storybook. Aimed at children from 3 – 13 books can be created collaboratively and they positively encourage families, friends and school classes to work together. The artwork for your stories is provided by illustators and visual artists who are able to upload their [...]
Tags: augmented · book · drawing · inspiration · online
Sneaky Peek at Alice’s Desk
July 21st, 2010 1 Comment
While Alice was out getting lunch I took some sneaky photos of the 3-dimensional illustrations she’s been working on. The drawings for these come from the ones made in Brixton and Coventry for the Empty Shops Network tour. Parts of them have then been cut out, folded and re-attached to give a diorama feel. I’d [...]
Tags: drawing · experiments · inspiration · pop-up
Can A Million Penguins be wrong..
July 20th, 2010 No Comments
“Software is rarely written in a vacuum and indeed the “open source” movement is built on the premise that collaboration is the only way to get bugs spotted and move forward. Scientific research, too, is more often than not a collaborative activity – and peer review is key to checking and honing the development of [...]
Tags: author · collaboration · sharing · writing
Alice Angus: 12 Month Schedule
July 16th, 2010 No Comments
This 12 Month Schedule by Alice is my new favourite eBook. It has one month per page with pages for notes and every page is decorated with illustrations by Alice. It’s designed as a notebook to carry around and use as a way to keep yourself organised, jot down ideas or make sketches. But seriously, [...]
Tags: drawing · eBooks · eNotebooks · inspiration
Access Art: The Scrappy Sketchbook
July 15th, 2010 1 Comment
bookleteer eBooks have often been used as sketchbooks or notebooks for people to draw or write in (as seen in yesterday’s post on ‘A Little Something About Me‘!) and one of the things I love best about them is that they are such a manageable size and look so handmade that it’s almost impossible to [...]
Tags: eNotebooks · inspiration
Battle of the Reading Formats
July 13th, 2010 No Comments
An iPad disguised to fit in on a book shelf. * See the bottom of this post for more. Fitting in very nicely with our discussions on Augmented Reading, Jakob Nielsen, the legend of usability studies, has conducted a test on the relative reading experience of reading a short story (Ernest Hemingway, in case you’re [...]
Tags: augmented · electronic · evaluation
Carlton say Books Come Alive
July 12th, 2010 2 Comments
New Scientist reports that UK publisher Carlton have launched two titles in their Augmented Reality series. The books – Fairyland Magic and Dinosaurs Alive – include a CD with software to install on your PC. Once this is done you point your webcam at the pages of the book and the webcam image of the [...]
Tags: augmented · book · electronic
Programmable Origami
July 7th, 2010 No Comments
Alan Chamberlain, one of our PU&P Augmented Reading participants, posted a link to the bookleteer Facebook page about a programmable surface that has been created by researchers at MIT and Harvard. The composite material which looks pretty much like a piece of paper can fold itself into a number of predetermined shapes (in this case [...]
Tags: electronic · inspiration · paper
Julie Myers: Trail Song
July 2nd, 2010 No Comments
While I was thinking about augmented reading in preparation for yesterdays PU&P (which was fab – thanks guys!) Giles showed me the Trail Song project by Julie Myers who he commissioned as part of the Transformations series. The Whyte Museum Archive, Banff, describes a Trail Song in this way: “A Trail Song uses a well [...]
Tags: eBooks · inspiration · StoryCubes · Transformations · videos
Evil Mad Scientists: Paper Circuits
July 1st, 2010 No Comments
In my search for augmented cubes I came across these LED-lit origami cube by the Evil Mad Scientists. They are made from a single sheet of paper folded to make a cube with an LED and battery inside. The components are your basic LED Throwie however the way the cube folds calls for what the [...]
Tags: cube · electronic
