Recently, we’ve discovered a very, very simple way of making your own cardboard, hard-wearing StoryCubes, using only: A free bookleteer account If you haven’t signed up for a free bookleteer account yet, do so here. A4 single label paper, suitable for Inkjet or Laserjet printers Full sheet label paper, available from any decent stationers (Avery [...]
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Easy peasy way of making A4 & A3 StoryCubes on any printer
September 16th, 2011 1 Comment
Tags: bookleteer · help · inspiring uses · making · StoryCubes · user guide
Two new eBooks for City As Material
February 11th, 2011 No Comments
This week we’ve published the last two of four commissioned eBooks from our guests at the City As Material events : Tim Wight’s The 2nd book of Urizen and Simon Pope’s Skylines and Sightlines. These add to the other two already published by Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino, Deep City and Ben Eastop, River Gap. Haz and I [...]
Tags: city as material · collaboration · inspiring uses · making · pitch in & publish
Sneaky peek at Mandy’s desk
October 1st, 2010 1 Comment
While Mandy was out at lunch Alice and I pounced on the StoryCube puzzle she’s working on because, well, because it looks gorgeous! Pencil sketches of farmyard animals, sea creatures, flowers, kittens, insects and snakes are scattered across a set of nine cubes and lie on a background of shades of blue. The sketches cross [...]
Tags: cube · drawing · experiments · inspiration · making · StoryCubes
IDEO’s The Future of the Book
September 28th, 2010 No Comments
On the fabulous The Literary Platform I came across this video Ideo have produced showing three concepts they have created around the future of the book. I love Ideo, they consistently come up with inventive and imaginative technological developments that take account of social factors and personal practices. However, I have to say, I am [...]
Tags: augmented · book · design · electronic · inspiration
Tangled Threads eBook
September 24th, 2010 No Comments
Proboscis have been invited to make a film that will be presented as part of a Leonardo/MIT mobile digital exhibition curated by Jeremy Hight. The film will provide an abstracted overview of Proboscis’ themes and projects over the past few years and will be made and illustrated by Alice. However, the process of making the [...]
Tags: eBook · inspiration · making
Piece of Paper Press
September 17th, 2010 No Comments
bookleteer has collaborated with writer Tony White a number of times on workshops and publications, however, I only became aware of his publishing venture – Piece of Paper Press – this week despite the fact that it’s been running for 16 years! In this time, 25 publications have been released, the latest one being Atomanotes [...]
single sheet zine
September 13th, 2010 No Comments
I’ve been focusing on zines with unconventional formats recently, so I thought I would go the reverse way, and share a simple, traditional method of making a mini-zine from a single sheet of paper, with no glue or binding methods needed, just like Bookleteer. I’ve used A4 in this example, which makes a tiny 8 [...]
Tags: comics · inspiration · making · zines
eBooks for Evaluation and Reflection
September 7th, 2010 2 Comments
Aside from my work at Proboscis I’m currently busy organising the Inspiring Digital Engagement Festival taking place in Sheffield on 15 September 2010. As part of this event we plan to use eBooks to gather feedback from participants about the day and their feelings and experiences of it. So I have been browsing the diffusion [...]
Tags: eNotebooks · inspiration
Comics, Cubed
September 6th, 2010 1 Comment
In my last post I looked at how handmade zines could be made in ways that were impossible to recreate digitally, which led me to discover a handful of comics that exist in three dimensions. Warren Craghead’s “A sort of Autobiography” is a comic spanning ten StoryCubes, each detailing a decade of his life, and [...]
Tags: comics · making · StoryCubes
Story Cubes and Art Works
September 3rd, 2010 No Comments
In 2008 Alec Finlay made a series of two Story Cubes. Alec is an artist, poet and publisher currently working in Byker, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. The Story Cubes he made were titled ‘After Ludwig Wittgenstein‘ and ‘score/fold‘ and could be made up into two cube poems. Each side of the two cubes features a single word and [...]
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Handmade Zines
August 28th, 2010 No Comments
Although the new digital age has made making a zine incredibly easy, especially with tools such as bookleteer, I thought I would take a look at the other end of the spectrum; handmade zines. Many still continue to design and assemble their zines by hand, some eschewing a computer entirely, simply photocopying pages, or even [...]
Tags: bookleteer · handmade · making · zines
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 [...]
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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
How to keep a geological field notebook
August 6th, 2010 No Comments
A very tangible field notebook (via fieldnotebookcom) Following on from the paper versus digital notebook conversation the other day I came across this post describing how to keep a geological field notebook. What I liked was how few of the characteristics and possible uses of a geologists field notebook they list actually have to do [...]
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