Monthly Archives: September 2011

Blurberati with Cameras: Pentax Optio w60

Welcome back to Camera Thursday, our chance to show off what we shoot and make books with. Today’s camera is a tiny-yet-rugged champ that’s held together with a bit of electrical tape. Employee: Eileen Job: Copy Director/Blurb Voice Camera: Pentax Optio w60 “My camera is not the latest, or the hippest, and it’s definitely not the [...]

How to Make a Blurb Book with your Facebook Photos

According to the site 1000memories, Facebook is now the largest photo library in the world. Which means a lot of your photos are probably on there. Which is why we’ve added a way for you to make a Blurb book with your Facebook photos in Blurb Bookify™, our free, no-download bookmaking tool. Step 1: Get [...]

Pro Designer Michael Rylander on Designing Books with Blurb

  Michael Rylander has designed advertising, logos, and all manner of great creative work for companies like Apple, BMW, Lexus, and Google. He’s also created a fantastic collection of Blurb books from portfolios of his work to photo books inspired by his travel. Michael’s tools of choice are Adobe® InDesign® and our PDF to Book [...]

(Note)Book of the Week: “Ocean of Sighs – Cuba”

Ocean of Sighs – Cuba by Zoltan Vancso | Make Your Own Book Among the winners in Photography Book Now 2011 is Zoltán Vancsó. The photographer was awarded Second Runner Up in the Travel category for Ocean of Sighs – Cuba and he was also the People’s Choice winner in the Fine Art category for [...]