Monthly Archives: February 2010

Happy Birthday to our Friend Photoshop

Thanks to Adobe® Photoshop®, we’re all thinner, younger, and our teeth are always white. But beyond that, we’re also able to push the creative edge, artfully manipulating our digital photography in ways that were just plain impossible more than twenty 20 years ago. That’s right – Photoshop just turned 20 and to celebrate the National [...]

How Long Will the Color in Your Blurb Book Last?

Lots of bookmakers ask us just how long their Blurb book photos will last. Will the color fade? And if so, when? Are we talking ten years, twenty years? Is this heirloom material? Thanks to our friends at Hewlett Packard — the folks who make the Indigo printing presses that we use to print all [...]

Blurb Meet-Up in Los Angeles

Blurb fans one and all, whether you’re an L.A. local or going to L.A. for the insanely great Mogo Media InDesign Seminar Tour (like we are), be sure to join us at Bar Lubitsch on Tuesday, March 9th. Stop by anytime 6 – 9 p.m. and enjoy food and drinks on us. Bring your Blurb [...]

Book of the Week: My Brother’s War

Stunning. Powerful. Impeccably designed. What more can we say about this book, a joint effort between book designer Elizabeth Avedon and photographer Jessica Hines. My Brother’s War is a deeply moving personal odyssey in which Jessica attempts to understand the wartime experience of her brother Gary who served in Vietnam and later committed suicide as [...]