Hello, hello. Apologies for the lack of posts in the last two weeks – we’ve been away for the summer break, and have only just got back. To all faithful bookleteers who are still following… we salute you!
Entries Tagged as 'bookleteer'
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
Bookleteer at Platform Festival
July 14th, 2011 No Comments
We’ll be running a drop-in Bookleteer workshop at the upcoming Platform Festival, which celebrates the launch of Islington’s new arts venue for young people, held during the 15th to the 31st of July. If you’re aged 13 – 19, bring your ideas and digital content – photographs, stories, text, art – on a USB key [...]
Tags: bookleteer · making · pitch up & publish · platform · workshop
British Museum & Bookleteer
July 1st, 2011 No Comments
Bookleteer, archaeology and local history. It is now a year since we launched the short run printing service so now seemed like a good time to reflect on what people in different areas have been using the printing service for. In this post we reflect on its use in two projects connected to the British [...]
Tags: bookleteer · community · events · get bookleteering · inspiring uses · melanesia project · pitch up & publish · Short Run Printing · StoryCubes · Sudan · The British Museum
Diffusion Archive Highlight: Expeditions in Paper Science
June 29th, 2011 No Comments
Created at our first Pitch Up & Publish event by Matthew Sheret, co-founder of We Are Words + Pictures, Expeditions in Paper Science is a compilation of blog posts written for his website. Matthew says: “I’ve long been interested in the idea of physicalising web articles, and while an industry has solidified around POD in [...]
Tags: bookleteer · diffusion · eBooks · inspiring uses · pitch up & publish · workshop
Diffusion Archive Highlight: Ancient Lights, City Shadows
June 17th, 2011 No Comments
A collaborative eBook produced as a result of our City As Material: Skyline event, Ancient Lights, City Shadows features mixed media collected on the day and material we were inspired to create after our wander through the city. Adorning the cover is one of Martin Fidler’s intricate skyline drawings, opposed with an ambiguous photograph of [...]
Tags: bookleteer · bookreader · city as material · collaboration · diffusion · eBooks · inspiration · inspiring uses · photography
Training & Workshops
June 13th, 2011 No Comments
bookleteer – create, share, print, make Pitch up & Publish One day workshops to create and publish booklets and StoryCubes using bookleteer: guiding you from concept to publication and beyond, bring a particular project you want to undertake, or come for an introduction and to experiment. The day will be tailored to your needs so [...]
Tags: alpha club · bookleteer · booklets · Cambridge Curiosity and Imagination · dodolab · eBooks · events · get bookleteering · self publishing tool · Short Run Printing · StoryCubes · The British Museum · The Empty Shops Network · workshop
Diffusion Archive Highlight: Three Essays by Samuel Johnson
June 10th, 2011 No Comments
Selected by writer and journalist Bill Thompson, this eBook compiles three of Samuel Johnson’s essays in a slim, portable format; Rambler 2, pondering the nature of ambition and self-deception, Idler 48, in which he speaks of how we ‘play throughout life with the shadows of business’, and Adventurer 95, exploring the process of writing and [...]
Tags: bookleteer · diffusion · eBooks · inspiring uses · writing
Diffusion Archive Highlight: Beasts and Super-Beasts
June 1st, 2011 No Comments
A collection of 36 short stories by Saki (Hector Hugh Munro), each an individual eBook, the tales in Beasts and Super-Beasts deal mainly with “the presence or role of an animal and its relationship to the humans in the narrative, acutely dissecting their foibles and pretensions” (an exquisite summary by Giles there). They’re in a [...]
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Diffusion Archive Highlight: Deep City
May 10th, 2011 No Comments
As part of the City As Material series, after being our special guest for the Underside event and helping to co-ordinate the resulting collaborative eBook, Layered, Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino was asked to produce an individual effort. She created Deep City, an attempt to “extract the individual elements we see in cities over and over again, to [...]
Tags: bookleteer · city as material · collaboration · diffusion · eBooks · inspiring uses
Diffusion Archive Highlight: Belo Horizonte Anarchaeology
April 27th, 2011 No Comments
A series of four eBooks created by Giles Lane, “Fragments towards an anarchaeology of Belo Horizonte” showcases photographs taken during walks around the city, as part of the arte.mov festival and symposium in 2009. The books focus on certain features of Belo Horizonte, Brazil, such as its Street Art, the Corners of the city, and [...]
Tags: anarchaeology · bookleteer · diffusion · inspiration · inspiring uses
DIY Diary
April 22nd, 2011 No Comments
I remember as a little girl keeping a diary of what I remember of totally random things, which if I looked back on now, would be quite cringe worthy! There’s all sorts of diaries available on the market, however a diary is a personal thing and Bookleteer can most defiantly relate to this. Bookleteer allows [...]
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Diffusion Archive Highlight: The Thetford Travelling Menagerie
April 14th, 2011 No Comments
A recently published Diffusion Highlight, The Thetford Travelling Menagerie by Lisa Hirmer and Andrew Hunter of Dodolab, is one of the few eBooks so far to use the A5 landscape format, the end result being particularly striking and accomplished. It stands out amongst the Proboscis bookshelves, aided in part, by the lovely illustration on its [...]
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Yoga Guide Book
April 13th, 2011 No Comments
In stressful times of work and family life, a little ‘you time’ is always good! Yoga, is not only a great stress relieving activity, but great for the body too! If yoga classes aren’t for you or you simply don’t have the time to attend, maybe my ‘Yoga Guide’ can be of help! I have [...]
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