This recent article from the Guardian Books blog, ponders whether or not it’s acceptable to make notes in the margins of books. Reading it, I was reminded of how annotating draft bookleteer eBooks during the editing and proofing stages of Material Conditions was an invaluable part of the process. We were able to quickly transform the [...]
Entries Tagged as 'eNotebooks'
In the Margins
January 19th, 2012 No Comments
Tags: bookleteer · creative process · eBooks · eNotebooks · material conditions
Diffusion Archive Highlight: Passivhaus eNotebook
February 14th, 2011 No Comments
Rob Annable, an architect at Axis Design Architects, used bookleteer to create this eNotebook whilst visiting Germany to study Passivhaus design principles. Using a blank eBook complete with trip itineraries and QR code web links, he wrote down observations, and placed in photographs taken and printed on site with a Polaroid PoGo printer. It was [...]
Tags: bookleteer · diffusion · eBooks · eNotebooks · inspiring uses · tangible souvenirs
Diffusion Archive Highlight: Graffito Scrapbook
February 8th, 2011 1 Comment
In August last year, I lent a hand to the Graffito crew whilst they were running an installation at the Vintage at Goodwood festival. Whilst festival-goers doodled on the iPhone app, their drawings were displayed on a huge L.E.D screen, along with everyone else using it. Giles prepared a blank eBook with the Graffito emblem, [...]
Tags: bookleteer · eBook · eNotebooks · inspiration · inspiring uses · tangible souvenirs
Diffusion Archive Highlight: Cosmo China 20th Anniversary Exhibition
November 19th, 2010 1 Comment
This was created to commemorate the 20th anniversary of Cosmo China, a handpainted ceramic studio and shop in Bloomsbury, London. To celebrate, Cosmo held a special exhibition of 20 plates painted by their artists (and a few special guests) for the occasion, which are showcased in the eBook. Each page is devoted to one of [...]
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Some Recent PPOD books
October 8th, 2010 1 Comment
September was a busy month here at Proboscis and on bookleteer: we sent seven books to be printed via the PPOD service as well as 10 different StoryCubes. The range of publications was very broad, from books about exhibitions and art projects to a book in Arabic about a major archaeological excavation in Sudan and [...]
Tags: bookleteering · eBooks · eNotebooks · examples · inspiring uses · ppod · print on demand · StoryCubes
Case study – James Leach and the Melanesian Project at the British Museum
October 8th, 2010 1 Comment
James Leach is an anthropologist at the University of Aberdeen who has conducted field-work in Papua New Guinea for approximately 17 years. I recently spoke to him by Skype to talk about a project which also involved two of his friends, Porer and Pinbin from the village of Reite, who had travelled to the UK [...]
Tags: anthropology · bookleteering · eBooks · eNotebooks · ethnography · inspiration · inspiring uses
eBooks at Inspiring Digital Engagement Festival
September 21st, 2010 No Comments
As I wrote last week, I have been co-organising the Inspiring Digital Engagement Festival in Sheffield and I wanted to make an eBook for it to try to capture participants feelings and views around digital technologies, digital inclusion, engagement and the festival itself. Thanks to Giles, these eBooks were printed through bookleteer’s PPOD service and ready [...]
Tags: eBooks · eNotebooks · evaluation · examples · feedback · inspiring uses
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
ScrapBooks as Tangible Souvenirs
August 31st, 2010 No Comments
… And ways to document events and projects A few days ago we published a ScrapBook made at the Vintage Festival for a project Proboscis is participating in called Graffito – a collaborative iPhone/iPad app that lets people draw on a shared canvas. It was used in the Warehouse tent (which had a 1980s theme) [...]
Tags: drawing · eNotebooks · examples · experiments · inspiration · making
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
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 [...]
Tags: augmented · eNotebooks · inspiration · notebooks
Alice Angus: 12 Month Schedule
July 16th, 2010 No Comments
This 12 Month Schedule by Alice is my new favourite eBook. It has one month per page with pages for notes and every page is decorated with illustrations by Alice. It’s designed as a notebook to carry around and use as a way to keep yourself organised, jot down ideas or make sketches. But seriously, [...]
Tags: drawing · eBooks · eNotebooks · inspiration
Access Art: The Scrappy Sketchbook
July 15th, 2010 1 Comment
bookleteer eBooks have often been used as sketchbooks or notebooks for people to draw or write in (as seen in yesterday’s post on ‘A Little Something About Me‘!) and one of the things I love best about them is that they are such a manageable size and look so handmade that it’s almost impossible to [...]
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Printed Ethnographic Notebooks
June 25th, 2010 1 Comment
Last summer I collaborated with James Leach (Anthropology Dept, University of Aberdeen), Lissant Bolton and Liz Bonshek (Ethnographic Dept, British Museum) to help document the visit to London of two people from Reite village, Papua New Guinea – Porer Nombo and Pinbin Sisau. Porer and Pinbin had been invited to come to the British Museum to [...]
Tags: eNotebooks · examples · inspiration · ppod · print on demand
Carnet du Bibliexplorateur
February 9th, 2010 No Comments
We received an email yesterday from a user based in Epinay sur Seine, France describing how he’s used bookleteer with his students: My name is J.-Thomas Maillioux, and I’ve been working as the librarian for the collège Evariste Galois middle school since 2005. I’ve recently started to use the bookleteers to create “adventure books” for [...]
Tags: education · eNotebooks · evaluation · examples · feedback · language · learning · libraries
