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 [...]
Entries Tagged as 'making'
Pitch Up & Publish 2011
March 1st, 2011 No Comments
Tags: bookleteering · feedback · making · pitch up & publish · print on demand · user guide · workshop
Observational sketches – Field report
February 28th, 2011 No Comments
The other week I mentioned an impromptu City As Material expedition with Mandy and Radhika, to Victoria and Waterloo stations. Despite it being FREEZING, we captured some interesting moments (fingers glove-bound) from the trip. I found just being still and observing whilst people whizzed about, quite relaxing, and it inspired a completely different way of [...]
Tags: bookleteer · city as material · drawing · inspiration · making · writing
CCI’s Library of Traces
February 21st, 2011 No Comments
Back in September Frederik posted a case study of Cambridge Curiosity and Imagination‘s use of bookleteer. They’ve continued using it as a creative and documentary resource, and in doing so have created a Library of Traces – a series of eBooks which enable both participants in their professional development workshops, and others, to follow the [...]
Tags: collaboration · education · examples · inspiration · inspiring uses · learning · making · workshop
Two new eBooks for City As Material
February 11th, 2011 No Comments
This week we’ve published the last two of four commissioned eBooks from our guests at the City As Material events : Tim Wight’s The 2nd book of Urizen and Simon Pope’s Skylines and Sightlines. These add to the other two already published by Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino, Deep City and Ben Eastop, River Gap. Haz and I [...]
Tags: city as material · collaboration · inspiring uses · making · pitch in & publish
Commission a local City As Material event
January 10th, 2011 1 Comment
Reflecting back on the 5 City As Material events of last Autumn, we’re really pleased both with the reception of the events themselves by participants and that of the resulting publications with friends and colleagues. Over the next few weeks we’ll be publishing the personal contributions of the guests (Tim Wright, Ben Eastop and Simon [...]
Tags: bookleteering · collaboration · making · pitch in & publish · workshop
Zine Review – Burger Zines!
November 4th, 2010 No Comments
These extraordinary creations are individually handmade by Stephanie Anderson, cut from paper and card. Each zine is a different burger with varying paper ingredients, and is limited to 20 copies. I suppose these are as far away from the typical imaginings of what a zine is, but innovation and creativity do tend to rock the [...]
Tags: bookleteer · making · pop-up · zines
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
Tangled Threads eBook
September 24th, 2010 1 Comment
Proboscis have been invited to make a film that will be presented as part of a Leonardo/MIT mobile digital exhibition curated by Jeremy Hight. The film will provide an abstracted overview of Proboscis’ themes and projects over the past few years and will be made and illustrated by Alice. However, the process of making the [...]
Tags: eBook · inspiration · making
Pitch In & Publish
September 20th, 2010 No Comments
Over the next few months we’ll be hosting a series of one-day zine making events at the Proboscis studio, entitled “Pitch In & Publish”, where anyone can take part in making a collaborative zine using Bookleteer. The first series will be based on the theme of “City As Material”, explained below by Giles. “The city [...]
Tags: bookleteer · making · pitch in & publish · zines
Piece of Paper Press
September 17th, 2010 No Comments
bookleteer has collaborated with writer Tony White a number of times on workshops and publications, however, I only became aware of his publishing venture – Piece of Paper Press – this week despite the fact that it’s been running for 16 years! In this time, 25 publications have been released, the latest one being Atomanotes [...]
single sheet zine
September 13th, 2010 No Comments
I’ve been focusing on zines with unconventional formats recently, so I thought I would go the reverse way, and share a simple, traditional method of making a mini-zine from a single sheet of paper, with no glue or binding methods needed, just like Bookleteer. I’ve used A4 in this example, which makes a tiny 8 [...]
Tags: comics · inspiration · making · zines
Comics, Cubed
September 6th, 2010 1 Comment
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 [...]
Tags: comics · making · StoryCubes
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 [...]
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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
