Monthly Archives: August 2011

Blurb and the Ballarat International Foto Biennale

Today’s post comes courtesy of Garry, our Creative Community Manager from Blurb Australia. He’s brought us this dispatch from the Ballarat International Foto Biennale: We are sharing our love of photo books with the Ballarat International Foto Biennale this year, one of the largest photo festivals in the world. Held in the historic mining town [...]

Book of the (mid) Week: “Conversational Whale”

Conversational Whale by Emily Arnaut with Monica Cure | Make Your Own Book Last friday we posted Gracie’s Catch, a storybook about a whale that utterly charmed us, and many blog readers as well. So we couldn’t resist this follow-up: Conversational Whale. We can’t verify any claims that it will help you communicate with any actual [...]

Book of the Week: “Graycie’s Catch”

Graycie’s Catch by Anne Kubitsky | Make Your Own Book It’s Friday and we thought everyone could use a feel-good story. Enter “Graycie’s Catch,” a richly illustrated Blurb book by writer and illustrator Anne Kubitsky. The story, based on the true story of a whale rescue near California’s Farallon Islands, follows Graycie, a spitfire of [...]

The seamless evolution of a Blurb Book

When you work at Blurb you spend a lot of time looking at books and noticing the details. Not just in our books, but those in bookstores, art galleries, and museum shops. You become a connoisseur of bindings and papers. You open a book and wonder, “Can we do that? How can we give people [...]