August 19, 2008 – 7:56 am
Enjoy urban portraits? So do we. The Tate Modern has been hosting the exhibition, Street & Studio: An Urban History of Photography, since May. The exhibition closes on August 31st, but will live on in a Blurb book. Blurb has partnered up with the Tate Modern and Flickr to create a photography book of 100 [...]
August 14, 2008 – 3:33 pm
If you’re an old hand at marketing your Blurb books, you probably know all about our promotional tools like Badges, Bookmark It, and turning on Book Preview.
But those really in the know make the most of their personal networks by using the Announce feature. With Announce, you can email anyone a personalized invitation to come [...]
We’re very serious people here at Blurb, and we disapprove on principle of anything that smacks or irony, satire, or parody. So it was a real blow to all of us when Real Dan Lyons used Blurb to make his best-of Fake Steve Jobs blog book. And then to go and make another book of [...]
CMYK is a design magazine that highlights emerging artists and aspiring creatives. Their newsletter caught my eye today with the headline –
“Have you self-published your own book? CMYK Magazine would like to hear your story for possible inclusion in a future issue.”
Well, what do you know? We have a whole community of visual communicators (that’s [...]
If you need a book to showcase your business (or your kids, your wedding, your dog, your trip to the Bahamas … ) and you just don’t have the bandwidth to organize your photos and get everything into a book right now, then you need to contact a BlurbNation professional. These are folks who love [...]
It’s the best month of the year to enjoy a nice deck here in San Francisco. Lucky deck-users can warm themselves around a nice, hot grill — and during July the fog lifts for whole minutes at a time.
Tailor Decks has gotten the entire Blurb office all excited about decking opportunities. Sure, our unique weather [...]
Nope, I’m not talking about the 12-year anniversary of the Will Smith movie. On July 4, 1776, the United States declared independence from Great Britain. So, 232 years later, we celebrate with backyard barbeques, drinking beer out of cans, watching fireworks, and at Blurb HQ … not working.
We know we’ll be the only ones [...]