In my last post I looked at how handmade zines could be made in ways that were impossible to recreate digitally, which led me to discover a handful of comics that exist in three dimensions. Warren Craghead’s “A sort of Autobiography” is a comic spanning ten StoryCubes, each detailing a decade of his life, and [...]
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Story Cubes and Art Works
September 3rd, 2010 No Comments
In 2008 Alec Finlay made a series of two Story Cubes. Alec is an artist, poet and publisher currently working in Byker, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. The Story Cubes he made were titled ‘After Ludwig Wittgenstein‘ and ‘score/fold‘ and could be made up into two cube poems. Each side of the two cubes features a single word and [...]
Tags: making · 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
Handmade Zines
August 28th, 2010 No Comments
Although the new digital age has made making a zine incredibly easy, especially with tools such as bookleteer, I thought I would take a look at the other end of the spectrum; handmade zines. Many still continue to design and assemble their zines by hand, some eschewing a computer entirely, simply photocopying pages, or even [...]
Tags: bookleteer · handmade · making · zines
Tales of Things
August 20th, 2010 2 Comments
Andy demonstrating Tales of Things at Be2Camp Brum 2010; via Meshed Media Today’s post is another presentation I heard at Be2camp Brum 2010 last week. (It was truly an inspiring and thought-provoking day!) Tales of Things was presented by Andy Hudson-Smith from the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, UCL. Tales of Things explores social memory [...]
Tags: augmented · book · electronic · inspiration · making · sharing
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
The collage illustrations of Dave McKean
August 12th, 2010 2 Comments
Last week I began to draft a post about digital artist Dave McKean’s illustrations. I was planning to return to the half-written post when I got an email from Giles saying did I know that Dave McKean illustrated a piece of writing for COIL (the Journal of the Moving Image which Giles founded and edited) [...]
Tags: augmented · creative writing · drawing · electronic · inspiration · making
Art Space Tokyo: Shared Making
July 30th, 2010 No Comments
Art Space Tokyo is an intimate guide to the Tokyo art world by Ashley Rawlings and Craig Mod and a very beautiful book describing the buildings and neighbourhoods of 12 distinctive Tokyo galleries. There are maps for each of the areas, illustrations of the galleries by Nobumasa Takahashi (the cover is a composite map of [...]
Tags: book · design · drawing · electronic · inspiration · making · sharing
Shared making of the Oxford English Dictionary
July 23rd, 2010 1 Comment
Yesterday I wrote about Storybird and how it enables a form of shared making through an online interface using email to notify authors when it is their turn. This reminded me of a very definitely non-technological example of the shared making of books.. Making the Oxford English Dictionary From when the gargantuan project of compiling [...]
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