Back in September Frederik posted a case study of Cambridge Curiosity and Imagination‘s use of bookleteer. They’ve continued using it as a creative and documentary resource, and in doing so have created a Library of Traces – a series of eBooks which enable both participants in their professional development workshops, and others, to follow the [...]
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CCI’s Library of Traces
February 21st, 2011 No Comments
Tags: collaboration · education · examples · inspiration · inspiring uses · learning · making · workshop
Short Run Printing Price Estimator
February 16th, 2011 No Comments
You can now estimate prices for eBooks and StoryCubes on the PPOD page using the estimator to select size of eBooks (A6 or A5) or StoryCube (A4 or A3), number of pages, quantity of copies and shipping destination (UK / European Union / North America / Rest of World). Both eBooks and StoryCubes can now [...]
Tags: ppod · print on demand · updates
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
Pitch In & Publish: City As Material – Overview eBook
February 1st, 2011 No Comments
We’re currently creating an eBook documenting our Pitch In & Publish: City As Material series of collaborative publishing events, detailing the inspirations for the series and the creative process, as well as accounts of each event and our overall thoughts on how it turned out. We’ll also feature participant feedback and what to look out [...]
Tags: bookleteer · eBooks · pitch in & publish
New pricing coming soon
January 26th, 2011 No Comments
We’re presently working on a simpler and more flexible ordering system for our Print & Publish On Demand (PPOD) service. The key changes are : the minimum total order for StoryCubes will be just 50 cubes (the minimum per cube design). We will print orders as soon as we have received enough for a print [...]
Tags: ppod · print on demand
New Year Discount!
January 21st, 2011 No Comments
Beat the January blues, make something beautiful to share with bookleteer! 10% off your first bookleteer PPOD order with this offer code : hnyjan2011 Valid until 4th February 2011 – one order per account. Sign up for an account here
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Outside The Box – Prototype
January 19th, 2011 No Comments
Here at Proboscis, we’ve just recently finished a prototype of “Outside The Box”, created by Many Tang. The project was conceived back in September, spurred by the Love Outdoor Play campaign, and we’ve been constructing and tinkering with it since. Last week blazed past in a frenzy of activity, with everyone pitching in to get [...]
Tags: bookleteer · cube · eBook · inspiring uses · outside the box · StoryCubes
bookleteer API
January 13th, 2011 6 Comments
Just before Christmas we implemented a major new feature on bookleteer – an API (application programming interface) enabling eBooks and StoryCubes to be generated by users direct from their own web applications and stored in or downloaded from their bookleteer accounts. Realising Tangible Souvenirs This has been a long-cherished ambition for us – harking back [...]
Tags: API · bookleteering · experiments · tangible souvenirs · updates
Commission a local City As Material event
January 10th, 2011 1 Comment
Reflecting back on the 5 City As Material events of last Autumn, we’re really pleased both with the reception of the events themselves by participants and that of the resulting publications with friends and colleagues. Over the next few weeks we’ll be publishing the personal contributions of the guests (Tim Wright, Ben Eastop and Simon [...]
Tags: bookleteering · collaboration · making · pitch in & publish · workshop
Christmas Printing Deadlines
November 13th, 2010 1 Comment
If you’re planning to print some eBooks or StoryCubes in time for Christmas, here are our last printing dates : eBooks UK orders : 6th December (3pm GMT) International orders : 1st December (3pm GMT) StoryCubes All orders : 1st December (3pm GMT) Some Christmas Ideas StoryCubes and eBooks can make great gifts – why [...]
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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
scheduled maintenance and new features
September 29th, 2010 No Comments
bookleteer will be offline for a few hours today as we do some scheduled maintenance and introduce some new features (the new image and content PDF gallery plus some other small tweaks). We’ll post more info about the changes when the site’s back online later today. *** Update 18.30 : its taking us longer than [...]
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Diffusion – 10 years old
September 19th, 2010 No Comments
Ten years ago this month, in September 2000, Proboscis published the first series of Diffusion eBooks – Performance Notations – initiating the start of the journey that has brought us to bookleteer.com. It was the culmination of ideas and designs about the future of publishing that themselves began back in early 1999 and were informed [...]
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Crowdfunding bookleteer
September 14th, 2010 No Comments
As mentioned in a post I wrote a couple of weeks ago, we’re hard at work building the ‘beta’ version of bookleteer to make it simpler to use, more robust and developing new features to make it even more useful. However, this does come at a cost and we’re low on funds to pay for [...]
Tags: bookleteer · crowdfunding · design
A Glance Ahead
August 24th, 2010 1 Comment
Recently we’ve been tweaking things under the hood of bookleteer and planning the transition to a public beta version (hopefully later this year). I thought I’d give a brief outline of some of the improvements we’re planning to introduce soon and a look ahead to how we’ll shape bookleteer in the future. Forthcoming Updates & [...]
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