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 [...]
Tag Archives: photography
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 [...]
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 [...]
People’s Choice Award - vote for your favorite Photography.Book.Now book
August 29, 2008 – 1:35 pm
The entries are in and to put it simply, the work is amazing. With over 2,000 Photography.Book.Now submissions, our judges are cranking as we come into the home stretch. We announce the winners on September 10th, but we want to give all of you a chance to voice your opinion too.
So, we’ve added an additional [...]
Book of the Week goes A-list
August 13, 2008 – 3:23 pm
Paul Melcher, named by American Photo as one of the 50 most influential individuals in American photography, says, “Olivier Douliery does not capture faces and places, he gets their soul.” After checking out Olivier’s book, Portraits, and selecting it to be this week’s Book of the Week, we’d have to agree.
Olivier is an award-winning [...]
Vacation inspiration? Enter your book in Blurb’s travel contest
August 11, 2008 – 2:10 pm
When you get back from a vacation, at the top of the list is to download your digital pictures and relive all the good times from your trip. But don’t you want those good times to continue? Making a book from your trip photos means those vacation memories can live on and be shared with [...]
Plastered on the Street
August 7, 2008 – 10:56 am
Usually when I hear the words “plastered on the street,” the connotation is usually a negative one that precedes a citation. However in this case the phrase is the title of this week’s Book of the Week, and the meaning is actually quite literal.
Robert Edmonds is an artist and designer, originally from Melbourne, Australia, [...]
