February 8, 2012 – 10:53 am
This week we have incontrovertible truth that romance is not dead. Travis Hines wanted to ask his girlfriend to marry him. He wanted an original way to do it. So he asked her in a Blurb book. Here’s his story, plus pictures captured surreptitiously by a photographer friend during the proposal: This past December 26 [...]
February 6, 2012 – 11:58 am
A few weeks ago we wrote about a bookmaker who orders and sells his books as signed and numbered limited editions, which we thought was pretty cool. And today we came across Wade Meyers, an aviation artist who creates pencil remarque drawings on the standard grey end sheets of his Blurb book The Yielding Sky. [...]
January 18, 2012 – 11:14 am
We wanted to share a cool story of a Blurb partner in Australia who has created an ebook as an inexpensive way to share timely, relevant content with their customers. The Summer Guide, by Concrete Playground, sifts through all of the bars, beaches, restaurants and other hip summer spots to help consolidate the best of the Aussie summer (because, [...]
January 12, 2012 – 11:56 am
Elizabeth Halford is a photographer based in Hampshire, England, who specializes in weddings and portraiture. As such, she needs to make books of her work. So she set out to compare the top contenders in the book printing space: Blurb, Apple, and Photobox. The latter won’t be familiar to US readers, but Halford says it’s [...]
