A few months ago I met accessibility and sensory design consultant, Alastair Somerville, who was in town to demonstrate using simple and cheap visualisation tools such as the 3Doodler pen. Over coffee we chatted about 3D printing, data manifestation and some of the tools and techniques we’ve each developed. Alastair showed me a material he […]
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the Periodical issue 16
February 6th, 2014 No Comments
Tags: education · inspiring uses · learning · making · tactile · texture · the periodical · zy.chem
Outside The Box PlayCubes
November 5th, 2013 No Comments
We’re now just over halfway through our kickstarter campaign for Outside The Box : a “game engine for your imagination” designed to inspire storytelling and improvise play. We’re trying to raise £4k to manufacture a 1st edition of the complete set to get it into people’s hands and see what they do with it. Its […]
Tags: Animal Match · experiments · games · Mission Improbable · play · PlayCubes · StoryCubes · StoryMaker
Recording & Sharing Traditional Ecological Knowledge
September 13th, 2012 1 Comment
This week I’ve spent a couple of days in Scotland with James Leach, Professor of Anthropology at the University of Aberdeen working on ideas for recording and sharing Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) in the field through hybrid technologies and tools. We are taking part in a symposium at the University of Goroka, Papua New Guinea […]
Tags: anthropology · collaboration · creative process · IPATEK · TEK · traditional ecological knowledge
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
Shi Cheng: Short Stories from Urban China
July 9th, 2012 No Comments
Shi Cheng: Short Stories from Urban China, recently published by Comma Press, gathers ten fictions by writers from cities of varying affluence, nature and distance in contemporary China, not to mention the varying styles of prose and stances of the protagonists. Dispelling the naive notion of a vast land of unified thinking, Shi Cheng (“ten […]
Tags: book · creative writing · inspiration
We Are All Food Critics – best reviews compilation
May 25th, 2012 No Comments
At tomorrow’s Soho Food Feast we will be helping the Soho Youth group (and a few others no doubt) from Soho Parish Primary School create their own reviews of the food on offer from the incredible array of chefs. We’ve created a simple notebook for them to record how their five senses respond to the […]
Tags: education · events · soho food feast
‘The Evolution of Books’
May 23rd, 2012 No Comments
Reading an article by novelist Nick Harkaway on ‘The Evolution of Books‘, I was struck by what sounds like a very fitting description of bookleteer, particularly in the light of last year’s bookreader and QR code updates. After concocting a brilliant, Terry Pratchett inspired scenario for future book technologies to diffuse any stale printed vs […]
Tags: bookleteer · eBooks · inspiration · technology
‘Acquired for development by…’ – A Hackney Anthology
May 9th, 2012 No Comments
Allow me to highlight an intriguing new book by the recently established Influx Press, who specialise in site-specific fiction. ‘Acquired for development by… A Hackney Anthology’ is a collection of short stories and poetry inspired by the London borough of Hackney, penned by twenty-five established and upcoming writers. It caught my interest as Giles and […]
Tags: book · bookleteer · city as material · inspiration · writing
‘Walking is political’
April 18th, 2012 No Comments
Let me draw your attention to a brilliantly written, striking piece which was featured in the Guardian a few weeks back. ‘Walking is political‘, by Will Self, is an edited version of his inaugural lecture as professor of contemporary thought at Brunel University, lamenting our increasing detachment from innate cognitive abilities when traversing the urban […]
Tags: city as material · dodolab · inspiration · news · technology · writing
Pop-Up eBooks: ‘Tangled Threads’
April 12th, 2012 No Comments
It seems that the posts tagged with ‘Pop-up’ on the bookleteer blog have been getting a lot of attention, so I’m reaching back into the Diffusion archive to satisfy you lot. ‘Tangled Threads’ was an eBook designed to act as a film storyboard, as part of Proboscis’ Sensory Threads project. Scripted by Karen Martin and […]
Tags: cut-out · diffusion · eBooks · inspiration · making · pop-up
DOG EAR: The Bookmark Zine
March 13th, 2012 No Comments
A very clever idea, this. DOG EAR is a magazine in the form of a concertina bookmark, with ten slim pages of writing and illustration selected from online contributions. It’s available for free from independent bookshops and libraries (cunningly hidden between the pages of books to perk up surprised readers, I like to imagine). I […]
Tags: bookleteer · drawing · ideas · inspiration · writing · zines
Zineage Kicks
March 6th, 2012 No Comments
I haven’t featured any Zine related stuff on the bookleteer blog for a while now, so whilst we’re busy producing the eBooks for City As Material 2, I thought I’d share a blog I’ve just discovered. Zineage Kicks is a behind the scenes look at a number of the early Zines of guest contributors, chronicling […]
Tags: bookleteer · city as material · creative process · eBooks · material conditions · zines
‘According To The Artists’ / ‘Talking Art’
February 8th, 2012 No Comments
Before the New Year, we published the first series of Material Conditions, a set of eight eBooks asking professional creative practitioners to reflect on what the material conditions for their own practice are, especially now in relation to the climate of change and uncertainty brought about by the recession and public sector cuts. Since then, […]
Tags: art · collaboration · creative process · eBooks · material conditions
Jonathan Franzen vs The ebook
February 1st, 2012 No Comments
On Monday, the Guardian published an article in which the novelist Jonathan Franzen condemned ebooks, warning that they have a negative effect on literature, and may actually be damaging to society. Whilst I’m inclined to agree with his statements about the nature of physical books, that they are permanent and reassuring tangible objects – monuments […]
Tags: creative process · eBooks · ideas · technology · writing
Poetry & short story pamphlets with bookleteer
January 26th, 2012 No Comments
I’ve been thinking a fair bit about bookleteer’s role in creating poetry pamphlets and short story collections, and the lack of much of either from budding bookleteers. It’s boggling – they suit the format perfectly as portable, pocket sized A6 books, or the grander A5 size, and can be made very quickly without any design […]
Tags: bookleteer · bookreader · diffusion · eBooks · writing