August 31, 2011 – 10:43 am
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 [...]
August 30, 2011 – 3:58 pm
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 [...]
August 26, 2011 – 1:37 pm
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 [...]
August 25, 2011 – 5:05 pm
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 [...]