Recently, we’ve discovered a very, very simple way of making your own cardboard, hard-wearing StoryCubes, using only: A free bookleteer account If you haven’t signed up for a free bookleteer account yet, do so here. A4 single label paper, suitable for Inkjet or Laserjet printers Full sheet label paper, available from any decent stationers (Avery [...]
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Easy peasy way of making A4 & A3 StoryCubes on any printer
September 16th, 2011 1 Comment
Tags: bookleteer · help · inspiring uses · making · StoryCubes · user guide
Upcoming Zine Fairs
August 31st, 2011 No Comments
I’m giving a shout out to two upcoming zine fairs, both held on the 25th of September 2011 – an unfortunate clash, alas. “THE BRISTOL COMIC AND ZINE FAIR When: Sunday 25th September 2011, 12pm – 6pm Where: Start the Bus, 7-9 Baldwin Street, Bristol, BS1 1RU (map) FREE ENTRY The Bristol Comic and Zine Fair [...]
Tags: comics · events · inspiration · making · zine fair · zines
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
“False Dichotomy” by Junyi Wu
June 3rd, 2011 No Comments
Whilst perusing Etsy for interesting zines, I was taken aback by the amazing False Dictotomy by illustrator Junyi Wu, filled with sombre, yet beautiful black and white artwork, paired with scrawled passages from the work of poet Emily Dickinson. The pen and ink illustrations of flora are set against sparse white backgrounds that highlight their [...]
Tags: illustration · inspiration · making · zines
Sketches In The City
May 25th, 2011 No Comments
An offshoot of City As Material, Sketches In The City is an occasional series of observational expeditions in various locations across the capital. Mandy, Radhika and I sketch, take photographs and write poems and prose to form a collaborative eBook with underlying themes. Focusing mainly on people and interactions in public places – places that [...]
Tags: city as material · inspiring uses · making · photography · sketches in the city · writing · zines
Typographic Paper Sculptures
May 5th, 2011 No Comments
I bring you another paper based marvel. Bianca Chang has crafted these 3-D paper sculptures of letters, laying subtly different HAND-CUT sheets on top of each other – no laser cutting or 3-D printing here. They have a marvelous depth that draws the eye in and around the texture created by the layering effect, which [...]
Tags: inspiration · making · pop-up
Paper Animations by Andersen M Studio
April 19th, 2011 No Comments
Andersen M Studio has created this amazing stop motion animation for Star Alliance airlines, using boarding passes that transform into a intricate paper representation of their destination, through some nifty cutting and creasing. They’ve also animated scenes from Maurice Gee’s novel, Going West, using the actual pages from the book. This one beggars belief. These [...]
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Print / cut / fold
April 12th, 2011 No Comments
In my last post, I looked at some of the innovative ways eBooks have been made, using a variety of materials. Today, I’m focusing on some interesting printing and layering techniques that I’ve found, in a bid to inspire budding bookleteers. Xavier Antin has constructed an extraordinary printing chain made from a stencil duplicator (1880), [...]
Tags: bookleteer · cut-out · inspiration · making · pop-up
Pick a card, any card…
April 8th, 2011 No Comments
Our former bookleteer blogger, Karen Martin, wrote about the effects of using different types of paper when printing eBooks in a previous post, “Paper Selection“, but having just rediscovered a few examples, I thought I’d share them with you again. Carmen Vela Maldonado created these lovely eBooks by experimenting with different coloured paper and card, [...]
Tags: bookleteer · cut-out · eBooks · inspiration · inspiring uses · making · paper
City as Material: Norwich
April 7th, 2011 No Comments
Tim Wright joined Giles and I for our second City As Material outside of London on Tuesday, as we took a trip to Norwich, where Tim spent his early years. The train from London seemed distinctly commuter-free compared to our journey to Bristol, with only a handful of people in our carriage. We bagged table [...]
Tags: bookleteer · city as material · collaboration · diffusion · eBooks · inspiration · making · norwich · StoryCubes
Stitched Illustrations – Peter Crawley
March 23rd, 2011 No Comments
I thought I’d share this, courtesy of the chaps at It’s Nice That. Peter Crawley stitches illustrations into watercolour paper with a pin, needle and cotton thread; the elaborate images and precise lines look more like a digital printout than embroidery. His architectural illustrations are stunning, even more so when you take a closer look [...]
Tags: crafted · design · drawing · embroidery · inspiration · making
Pitch Up & Publish 2011 – Book a place now
March 11th, 2011 No Comments
Giles posted about our upcoming Pitch Up & Publish workshops for 2011 last week – we’ve just confirmed the dates, and the Eventbrite page is now live. The sessions are taking place on: Tuesday 22nd March 2011, 12.00 pm – 2.00 pm Tuesday 12th April 2011, 12.00 pm – 2.00 pm Tuesday 26th April 2011, [...]
Tags: bookleteer · eBooks · making · pitch up & publish · StoryCubes · workshop
Treasure Zine
March 10th, 2011 No Comments
Time for me to feature some staggering artwork from illustrator Helen Vine now, taken from her zine “TREASURE”. A 15 page, saddle-stitched, illustration / photography zine inspired by “cemeteries and taxidermy museums”. Thankfully I share this slightly morbid fascination towards various creatures of the rigor mortis persuasion. Her work is amazingly intricate and captures the [...]
Tags: drawing · inspiration · making · zines
Computational Architecture: Cardboard Columns
March 2nd, 2011 No Comments
Another gem which has been featured on www.fastcodesign.com, and something my brain is still trying to recover from. Created by Michael Hansmeyer, and constructed from 2700 laser cut sheets of cardboard with wooden cores, these columns were spawned by an algorithm fed into a computer, forming “computational architecture”, with up to 16 MILLION facets. [...]
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Pitch Up & Publish 2011
March 1st, 2011 No Comments
We’re starting a new regular series of Pitch Up & Publish workshops to help people get started and make the most use out of bookleteer as possible : guiding them from concept to publication and beyond. The 2 hour workshops will be held at our studio, will have a maximum of around 6 places and [...]
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