Ever wonder who is the most prolific Blurb bookmaker ever? We’ll grant you that this history is a relatively short one; we launched Blurb in May 2006. But over the past three and a half years, we’ve seen folks embark on some truly amazing projects. Wil van Iersal made a book a week for 52 [...]
Author Archives: Mike
Introducing the Blurb Gift Center
November 3, 2009 – 4:14 pm
The temperature has dipped below 60 degrees here in San Francisco at Blurb HQ, which can only mean one thing – it’s November, and the holidays are closing in. Quickly. We’re mere weeks away from Thanksgiving, then Black Friday, and before we know it we’ll be behind the eight ball, wondering where the time went [...]
Photography.Book.Now meet-up in Chicago
October 16, 2009 – 12:51 pm
Photography.Book.Now 2009 is bringing the party to Chicago! So far we’ve hosted events in New York, San Francisco, and London, and each city has been better than the last. We haven’t had the opportunity to check in our people in the windy city as often as we’d like, so we’re pretty excited to hang out [...]
Meet Supermarket
October 14, 2009 – 2:15 pm
Blurb recently got our design on at the AIGA Make | Think conference in Memphis. We had a booth, hosted a meet-up, and generally rocked Beale Street all week long. Our people had a great time, and we have a video we’ll post later this week to help bring the experience home.
We met a [...]
Goodbye Irving Penn
October 8, 2009 – 3:46 pm
Photographer Irving Penn died Wednesday morning in Manhattan at the age of 92. Philip Gefter said in 2008 that “Irving Penn photographed so many prominent cultural figures of the 20th century that, over the years, he came to be regarded as an equal among them.” (Full article here.)
A great synopsis of Penn’s work is available [...]
Mark Steines’ Journey to Sierra Leone
October 6, 2009 – 2:44 pm
When we first sat down with Entertainment Tonight (ET) anchor Mark Steines in his office on the newly built ET lot in October 2008, we had no idea what to expect. The premise of the meeting was that ET could potentially do some kind of a book project with Blurb and maybe even feature us [...]
Time to Start Thinking about Large Orders for the Holidays
October 5, 2009 – 1:29 pm
If you’ve been making books with us since the early days, you’re no stranger to what’s known around these parts as The Holiday Crush. We joke internally that Q4 planning starts on January 2. Only it’s really not a joke at all. During the holiday season, things get more than a little hectic around here, [...]
