Check out the amazing portfolio of Allison Wilton who has deconstructed and then reconstructed books around themes such as emoticons, acronyms and typography.
Category Archives: Inspiration
A Fresh Approach to Book Tours
April 29, 2009 – 10:08 am
Promoting a new book is a lot of work, but it’s a labor of love. From utilizing social media like Twitter, Facebook, the blogosphere, and your own personal websites, there is also the ever glorious book tour. Traveling from city to city doing book readings to promote your latest work is a great way to [...]
Develop Film with Coffee & Vitamin C!
April 15, 2009 – 4:17 pm
The fine folks at Photojojo posted a great tutorial on how to develop film using nothing more then instant coffee, vitamin C powder, washing soda, water, fixer and dishwashing liquid. Sound impossible? It really works! Check out the step-by-step tutorial on how to develop your film with these basic household products here. Happy processing!
Build Your Own Pinhole Camera
September 30, 2008 – 9:00 am
Here at the Blurberati we love all types of photography and are always intrigued by the cameras used to capture the stellar images that adorn the books we see come through every day. So to give you a little inspiration for your next photography book, here’s a link to some awesome DIY pinhole cameras from [...]
Selling Top Design Via Blurb
September 24, 2008 – 2:15 pm
BusinessWeek recently wrote an article about top design-strategy firms utilizing books to sell their design to clients. We were super excited to see that they featured our friends at PSFK and their book PSFK SNAPSHOT which features inspiring images from our home, the San Francisco bay area. The book is fantastic and we loved seeing [...]
This One’s for the Girls
September 18, 2008 – 10:28 am
We’re crazy for Flickr and love when great books come together from Flickr groups. Case in point - “It’s a Girl Thing” by Lori Andrews, aka ‘The 10-Cent Designer’. Lori collected various images from the ‘it’s a girl thing’ group on Flickr and created a book for all the members to have and share. Pretty [...]
Wanderlust
September 10, 2008 – 5:11 pm
The travel book competition is complete and the submissions were great. So great in fact that we couldn’t narrow the winners down to five, so instead we chose eight. The winners are (in no particular order):
Tanzania by Joan Roig and Maria Salvador. This stunning collection of photographs highlights different regions of Tanzania. Check out the [...]
