Project 18, a collaboration between Norfolk Museums & Archaeology Service and MAP, looked at what it’s like to be 18 now, and what it was like to be 18 in the past. This eBook, uploaded earlier this week to Diffusion, is a collection of stories gathered by young people from some of the older participants [...]
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Project 18
November 18th, 2011 No Comments
Tags: eBooks · inspiration · inspiring uses · museums · sharing
Agencies of Engagement – A creative thinking and doing tool
November 16th, 2011 No Comments
In April 2011, Proboscis began a collaboration with the Centre for Applied Research in Education Technologies (CARET) and Crucible at the University of Cambridge, on a research project exploring the nature of groups and group behaviours within the context of the university’s communities and the design of software platforms for collaboration. Our output of this [...]
Tags: eBooks · engagement · inspiration · inspiring uses
Sewn Paper Sculptures
October 24th, 2011 No Comments
If you’ve been following this blog even remotely, you might have sussed my interest in papercraft and recycled materials, possibly partly due to my own artistic limitations. I’m in awe of artists who can do what I can’t – produce highly visual and sculptural pieces, rather than simply text, and particularly transform paper, something I [...]
Tags: hand-made · inspiration · paper · paper sculpture
Psychedelic Paper Sculptures
October 5th, 2011 No Comments
Jen Stark creates fantastical, multicoloured paper sculptures which transgress the humble medium, composing simple sheets into three-dimensional works of art using every spectrum of the rainbow. The intricate layers, the shapes they form, and the sheer vibrancy of her work are mesmerising – what’s more, they’re all hand-cut. Perhaps it’s not wise to delve too [...]
Tags: design · inspiration · paper · paper sculpture · three-dimensional
Sorrows of the Moon: A Journey Through London
September 12th, 2011 No Comments
Hi everybody, my name is Elena and I have been working as an intern at Proboscis since mid June. On Proboscis’ website I posted some reflections of mine initially taking inspiration from a visual essay I am composing on the wall of the studio. The visual essay combines some impressions sprung from the observation of [...]
Tags: book · city as material · inspiration · writing
Night Haunts: A Journey Through the London Night
August 11th, 2011 1 Comment
“3AM is the dark heart of the city, when the carefully repressed anxieties, aspirations and dreams of its emotionally parched inhabitants can no longer be contained” Elena, who is with us at the Proboscis studio under the Leonardo Da Vinci scheme, used a very eloquent excerpt from Night Haunts: A Journey Through the London Night [...]
Tags: augmented · book · city as material · online · writing
Drawn In
August 8th, 2011 No Comments
I’ve been following Julia Rothman’s excellent blog, Book By Its Cover for a good while now, and first heard about the concept behind Drawn In months back, but for some reason its actual release evaded me. I’ve re-discovered it now, and immediately snapped it up from Amazon, as we’re planning a new series looking into [...]
Tags: book · creative process · creativity · inspiration · sketchbook
StoryCube Cairn
August 5th, 2011 1 Comment
“A group converges on a location to build a StoryCube Cairn” On Wednesday, Simon Pope, Gordon Joly, and Stefan Szczelkun joined us in the Proboscis studio, to talk about the StoryCube Cairn project, and embark on a group walk using a QR coded cube and a mobile phone as wayfinding devices. Before the event, we [...]
Tags: API · augmented · bookleteer · events · inspiring uses · qr code · storycube cairn · StoryCubes
Diffusion Archive Highlight – City As Material: An Overview
August 3rd, 2011 No Comments
A document of the five City As Material events we ran in London last year, this eBook collects the blog posts penned after each event, a selection of photographs taken, as well as an introduction to the project and our motives for undertaking it. Created in place of an individual eBook for Sonic Geographies, due [...]
Tags: bookleteer · bookreader · city as material · collaboration · diffusion · eBooks · inspiration · inspiring uses · pitch in & publish
Sketchbook Zines – Ying-Chieh Liu
July 26th, 2011 1 Comment
I’ve found Etsy to be a great source when looking for remarkable zines, often not featured anywhere else; either a sign that unfortunately, no-one has picked up on them yet, or the author is simply satisfied with creating and making their zines available to whoever stumbles upon them. Certainly the latter can make the reader [...]
Tags: drawing · inspiration · sketchbook · sketches · zines
The Book Barge
July 20th, 2011 No Comments
I’ve just discovered The Book Barge, a canal boat that acts as a floating bookshop and workshop space, currently touring around the U.K. The interior looks amazing, and not least of all, inviting – perfect for a relaxed perusal of its shelves. Normally moored in Staffordshire, in May it set off on a six-month tour [...]
Tags: book · bookshops · inspiration · pop-up
Book Sculpture Portraits
July 13th, 2011 No Comments
Knowing my penchant for unusual pieces created from books and paper, Giles turned me on to the extraordinary work of artist Nicholas Galanin, who hand-carves 3D portraits from lengthy volumes, as if they were inverted sculpture blocks. The source models for these surreal, paper death masks were first captured with a 3D scanner to produce [...]
Tags: book · cut-out · inspiration · paper sculpture · pop-up
Tube Map CV’s
July 12th, 2011 No Comments
I have been blogging about creative portfolios recently, with the notion of ‘standing out from the crowd’ as my backbone. This is also relevant to CV’s. Just like a portfolio, you have to stand out from the crowd to get noticed! I came across two fantastic CV’S which mimic a London tube map, and instead [...]
Diffusion Archive Highlight: Pharmaceutical Cubes by Kenneth Goldsmith
July 8th, 2011 No Comments
Kenneth Goldsmith, poet and founder of UbuWeb, created this series of six StoryCubes, each inscribed with the side effects of a certain prescription drug. The text is rendered in illegible 1-point type, so that the words become texture – some resembling the grooves in a vinyl record, another a peculiar lilac coloured static noise. Kenneth [...]
Tags: inspiration · poetry · StoryCubes
Stop Sharpening Your Knives
July 6th, 2011 No Comments
An anthology series of poetry and illustration, Stop Sharpening Your Knives has been around for a good few years, and is currently accepting submissions for its 5th edition. I had the good fortune to hear a performance by one of its editors, poet Jack Underwood, at the launch night of the London Word Festival a [...]
Tags: illustration · inspiration · poetry · zines
