Last December we published Material Conditions, a set of eight commissioned books exploring what it means and takes to be a professional creative practitioner. Inspired by the title of a behind-the-scenes blog post which followed, we’ve added a new chapter to the series, continuing a discussion which seems ever more relevant in the current climate. [...]
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Material Conditions: Epilogue
October 8th, 2012 1 Comment
Tags: collaboration · creative process · eBooks · inspiration · material conditions · publishing on demand · the periodical
ARCHIZINES World Tour – New Dates for Autumn
August 6th, 2012 No Comments
The ARCHIZINES World Tour is continuing its traversal of the globe, with added dates for Autumn. This collection of independent architecture zines, journals and magazines from around the world, curated by Elias Redstone, and featuring a publication from our very own City As Material, will be on show in various countries over the following weeks. Check [...]
Tags: architecture · archizines · bookleteer · city as material · eBooks · events · news
More recently printed books
July 11th, 2012 No Comments
Here’s two more books created with bookleteer which have recently been published with our Short Run Printing service. ‘We Are All Food Critics: The Reviews’ was printed for Soho Parish Primary School, so that every child who wrote a review for the Soho Food Feast 2012 could have their own copy and show off their [...]
Tags: eBooks · eNotebooks · joyce majiski · publishing on demand · Short Run Printing · soho food feast
Soho Food Feast: We Are All Food Critics – The Reviews
July 6th, 2012 No Comments
In May, Proboscis supported the children of Soho Parish Primary School at this year’s Soho Food Feast – a community fundraising event held for the school at which many of London’s celebrated chefs and restaurants provided signature dishes to raise money. We designed a special eNotebook alongside Fay Maschler, Restaurant Critic of the London Evening [...]
Tags: bookleteer · eBooks · eNotebooks · print on demand · soho food feast
Recently printed books
June 29th, 2012 No Comments
Greetings, bookleteers. Thought you might like to see two books which have been published recently using our Short Run Printing Service. Axis Design Architects have used bookleteer once again, this time for ‘Community Consultation & Neighbourhood Planning’, which showcases their work with residents during design processes (they even mention using our blank Storycubes during workshops!) [...]
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Your Stories… So Far
June 12th, 2012 No Comments
To coincide with our recent price reductions for A6 Short Run printed books, and lower minimum print run of just 25 copies, we are offering 50 books for the price of 25 for anyone wanting to make and print their own pocket portfolio, using the discount code “PORTFOLIO2012″. Giles showcased two great examples of bookleteer [...]
Tags: bookleteer · eBooks · mebooks · pocketfolios · portfolios
Professor Starling’s Thetford-London-Oxford Expedition
May 31st, 2012 No Comments
We’ve just published our latest entry in the City As Material series: ‘Professor Starling’s Thetford-London-Oxford Expedition’ – three books documenting the investigative excursions of Professor William Starling and his research team (Lisa Hirmer and Andrew Hunter of DodoLab, Josephine Mills of the University of Lethbridge Art Gallery, Lethbridge artist Leila Armstrong, and Giles Lane and [...]
Tags: city as material · diffusion · dodolab · eBooks · professor starling · Short Run Printing
‘The Evolution of Books’
May 23rd, 2012 No Comments
Reading an article by novelist Nick Harkaway on ‘The Evolution of Books‘, I was struck by what sounds like a very fitting description of bookleteer, particularly in the light of last year’s bookreader and QR code updates. After concocting a brilliant, Terry Pratchett inspired scenario for future book technologies to diffuse any stale printed vs [...]
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‘We Are All Food Critics’ – Bookleteer @ Soho Food Feast
May 21st, 2012 No Comments
Bookleteer will be at this year’s Soho Food Feast on Saturday 26th May – a one-day event of demonstrations, tastings and cooking contests, boasting many of London’s most renowned chefs and restauranteurs, in aid of Soho Parish Primary School. We’ll be encouraging children from the school to sample dishes and become food critics for the day, capturing [...]
Tags: bookleteer · eBooks · eNotebooks · events · news · soho food feast
Pop-Up eBooks: ‘Tangled Threads’
April 12th, 2012 No Comments
It seems that the posts tagged with ‘Pop-up’ on the bookleteer blog have been getting a lot of attention, so I’m reaching back into the Diffusion archive to satisfy you lot. ‘Tangled Threads’ was an eBook designed to act as a film storyboard, as part of Proboscis’ Sensory Threads project. Scripted by Karen Martin and [...]
Tags: cut-out · diffusion · eBooks · inspiration · making · pop-up
Zineage Kicks
March 6th, 2012 No Comments
I haven’t featured any Zine related stuff on the bookleteer blog for a while now, so whilst we’re busy producing the eBooks for City As Material 2, I thought I’d share a blog I’ve just discovered. Zineage Kicks is a behind the scenes look at a number of the early Zines of guest contributors, chronicling [...]
Tags: bookleteer · city as material · creative process · eBooks · material conditions · zines
City As Material 2: Oxford
February 27th, 2012 No Comments
For the final location of City As Material 2, with Andrew Hunter and Lisa Hirmer of Dodolab, Josie Mills from the University of Lethbridge Art Gallery and Leila Armstrong, we arrived in Oxford on a chilly morning, out of keeping with the good weather from the last two events. Once again, we were trailing Professor [...]
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City As Material 2: London
February 21st, 2012 1 Comment
Yesterday we strolled around London for the second location of City As Material 2, accompanied by the same gang as Thetford: Andrew Hunter and Lisa Hirmer of Dodolab, Josie Mills from the University of Lethbridge Art Gallery and Leila Armstrong. We followed in the wake of Professor Starling as he continued his investigations in the [...]
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City As Material 2: Thetford
February 20th, 2012 2 Comments
Last Thursday we travelled to Thetford, Norfolk, the first destination of City As Material 2, centered on the theme of ‘Migrations’. Joining us were Andrew Hunter and Lisa Hirmer from Dodolab, Josie Mills from the University of Lethbridge Art Gallery, and Leila Armstrong. Oh, and the “itinerant avian scholar” (in his own squawks), Professor William [...]
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City As Material 2
February 14th, 2012 No Comments
This Thursday we’re traveling to Thetford with Dodolab, alongside Josephine Mills from the University of Lethbridge Art Gallery and Leila Armstrong, for the first of the next round of City As Material events, centered on the theme of ‘Migrations’. Following in the fluttering wings of Professor Starling, who will be investigating the passages of Starlings [...]
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