For a decade or so we’ve been designing custom notebooks and sketch books for use in projects and workshops – for individuals, groups of participants, communities and some just for anyone who wants to use them. There’s a small library of ‘eNotebooks’ on Diffusion – many by us and some by others (see below and/or [...]
Entries Tagged as 'experiments'
Field Work, a project for the Periodical
September 24th, 2012 4 Comments
Tags: creative process · eNotebooks · experiments · making · the periodical
the Periodical : setting the scene #1
August 30th, 2012 No Comments
I am delighted and proud to introduce the first of our friends and colleagues who have agreed to take part in this experiment in conversational, relational publishing. They’ve all agreed to publish at least one eBook with bookleteer over the next 12 months which will all go into the wider selection pool from which we [...]
Tags: bookleteering · bookleteers · experiments · the periodical
Introducing… the Periodical
July 14th, 2012 1 Comment
An eccentric monthly publication for an era of eclectic exploration More and more beautiful, thought-provoking and inspiring eBooks are being created with bookleteer all the time so, with a nod to such illustrious forebears as William Hogarth, Joseph Addison, Jonathan Swift, Laurence Sterne and Charles Dickens we’re creating the Periodical, a regular monthly publication to [...]
Tags: experiments · inspiration · inspiring uses · news · publishing on demand · sharing · the periodical
The Unedited Author by Kevin Harris
December 5th, 2011 No Comments
The unedited author by Kevin Harris Most writers have one or two trusted readers-of-drafts, critical friends who are relied on to make suggestions and offer that gentle critique that we didn’t know we needed. And the closer we get to conventional publication, the more likely we are to find ourselves working with an editor who [...]
Tags: bookleteering · editing · experiments · inspiration · learning · publishing on demand · unedited
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
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
Case Study – Niharika Hariharan
September 22nd, 2010 2 Comments
Last week I presented Gillian Cowell‘s independent eBook projects and also started with a very simple early categorisation for how people design and use eBooks – publishing and capturing. This week’s case study also deals with the work of an independent researcher and self-described “story teller, explorer, wanderer” – Niharika Hariharan. I contacted Niharika on [...]
Tags: eBooks · examples · experiments · ideas · inspiration · inspiring uses · learning · StoryCubes
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
Sneaky Peek at Alice’s Desk
July 21st, 2010 1 Comment
While Alice was out getting lunch I took some sneaky photos of the 3-dimensional illustrations she’s been working on. The drawings for these come from the ones made in Brixton and Coventry for the Empty Shops Network tour. Parts of them have then been cut out, folded and re-attached to give a diorama feel. I’d [...]
Tags: drawing · experiments · inspiration · pop-up
Report Back on PU&P 10: Augmented Reading
July 8th, 2010 2 Comments
Pitch Up Publish 10: Augmented Reading took place last Thursday and thanks to our excellent participants I had a fantastic afternoon. Alan Chamberlain from Mixed Reality Lab, David Crowley and Jeremy Millar from the RCA, James Bridle and Josh, Rob and Fabia from getmorelocal were knowledgable, inspiring, provocative and entertaining and I ended the afternoon [...]
Tags: eBooks · experiments · pitch up & publish · StoryCubes
Crowdfunded Publishing with bookleteer : a concept
July 2nd, 2010 5 Comments
Here at Proboscis we are very excited by the quality of the new PPOD service we’re offering users of bookleteer, but we also recognise that there are still economic barriers to people wanting to break into publishing their own eBooks & StoryCubes. Despite our ground-breaking service offering low-run printing (from only 50 copies per title, [...]
Tags: crowdfunding · experiments · ppod · print on demand · publishing on demand
StoryCube Cameras
June 14th, 2010 1 Comment
Without seeing my post on Thomas Hudson Reeve and his paper cameras, Niharika suggested we try to turn StoryCubes into pinhole cameras. When we mentioned this to Giles we discovered that a project he had commissioned by Tina Keane for Coil Journal of the Moving Image had involved pinhole cameras and there were still a [...]
Tags: experiments · StoryCubes
Pop-up Progress
June 9th, 2010 1 Comment
My pop-up pig picture inserted into an eBook As you can see from these pictures I’ve started playing around with fitting my individual pop-up pictures into the more linear procedure of a book. I’ve used the quite unimaginative title of A Walk in the Country to provide a narrative to the pictures. Butterfly and Tree [...]
Tags: eBooks · experiments · inspiration · pop-up
Prototyping Pop-up eBooks
June 2nd, 2010 2 Comments
My tests for making a pop-up eBook. Inspired by Robert Sabuda and Matthew Reinhardt (who I wrote about here) I’ve been working on making a pop-up eBook. I chose the loose theme of ‘A walk in the country’ and selected pop-ups from Robert Sabuda’s website to fit this concept. All of the pop-ups are labelled [...]
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