Late last summer I was in NYC and had the great fortune to spend some time with Phil Block, the Deputy Director of Programs and Director of Education at the International Center of Photography (ICP). He showed me some beautifully designed books, printed on a lovely uncoated paper stock. “You should do this,” he said. [...]
January 19, 2011 – 8:00 am
I have not been this excited about what’s on deck in a very long time. Not that we’ve been sitting on our hands. This past year we introduced our super streamlined online bookmaking tool, Bookify; significantly upgraded our other bookmaking tools – BookSmart and PDF to Book workflow; launched new ways for you to share [...]
This blog post by our founder and CEO Eileen Gittins was excerpted in our March newsletter. Here it is start-to-finish: I grew up listening to the Rolling Stones’ “You Can’t Always Get What You Want (But You Can Get What You Need).” They may have got it backwards. Daniel Pink in his new book, “Drive” [...]
January 20, 2010 – 2:23 pm
I have just finished reading Tim Brown’s new book, “Change By Design.” Tim is the CEO and President of IDEO, the amazingly versatile, design-centric global consultancy. While there are many excellent passages about “design thinking,” as an entrepreneur I am always considering the Monday morning question. Whenever I listen to a conference speaker or read [...]
