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10 baby book ideas
Every day with your baby is a new adventure filled with new memories to treasure. And like every new parent, you probably wish there was a way to slow ...
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13 Design Trends to Watch in 2019
I know, yet another “Design Trends” article. You might say these trends are old, so why are they trends? Well, trends come and go with time. So if you ...
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12 Questions with Anna Daviscourt, Adobe Creative Resident
For the past nine months, Anna Daviscourt has been living the ultimate creative life. As an Adobe Creative Resident, she’s been free to work on her own projects, in ...
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5 Illustrators You Need to Know About
From before the formation of words and language and into the modern digital age, book illustration has remained a powerful way to convey messages and evoke feelings. It’s an ...
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An Interview with Adobe Creative Resident Temi Coker
Adobe Creative Resident Temi Coker is a digital artist and photographer based in Texas. Born in Lagos, Nigeria, he taught himself photography at “The University of YouTube,” and by ...
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What It’s Like to Actually Make a Family Cookbook
We were lucky enough to find Debra Pexa’s family cookbook, Around the Table: A Family Love Story in one of our summer contests, and we fell in love with ...
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15 ideas for a custom notebook or journal
Enjoy a new creative outlet, get the perfect holiday gift for a friend, or sell unique journals to customers looking to start something new! No matter your inspiration or ...
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Dos and Don’ts of Halloween Fonts
Decorative fonts are often used during different holiday seasons, but not always successfully. Here are a few dos and don’ts to stick to when working with decorative Halloween fonts.
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Book Layout & Design Ideas: Layout 5
This blog series is designed to provide some basic book design ideas for your books, magazines, or ebooks. The spreads you see here, and the added notes, are not ...
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30 photo book ideas to get you started
Whether you’re setting out to make a personal memento or working on a professional creative project, there are a million different ways to make a good photo book. Here ...
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The enduring power of magazines
Every serious photographer wants a book. After all, historically, the book represents acceptance and credibility at the highest level. But right alongside the precious and almighty book lies the ...
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A magazine can be …
Despite the increasing prevalence of digital content, the print magazine continues to be a popular format for professionals across the creative industry. The secret to its enduring success? Its ...
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16 ideas for making a memory book
When you’re younger, everything is new and every “first” gets written down or saved. But as we get older, our lives are filled with memories that shape who we ...
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10 Family Photo Book Ideas
As long as we’ve been taking pictures, we’ve been using them to tell our family stories. You remember those albums at your grandmother’s house? The ones piled under the ...
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The Peculiar World of Color
When you think of color, you probably think of something like this: A digital-color picker, as obscene and overwhelming as an all-you-can-eat buffet.
As with all readily available commodities, nowadays colors ...
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Giving Sketchbooks New Life with Artist Abigail Halpin
Abigail Halpin is an artist, illustrator, pattern-maker, and textile designer who captured her daily thoughts and ideas in a series of lovely sketchbooks. Recently, she compiled some of her ...
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Photography: An Interview with Game-Changer Elliot Ross
The need to make a living means it’s not always easy to stick to your creative guns. But there are a lucky few who manage to follow their own ...
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10 Questions with artist Monica Garwood about Layflat Books and the Creative Life
All around our Blurb office, we’ve been buzzing about Monica Garwood, a Bay Area painter, illustrator, and artist whose gorgeous book of watercolor women stopped us dead in our ...
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Rekindle Your Creative Fire with Prof. G
What does it take to make great work? How do you get your work in front of an audience? Does success come from luck or creativity? We asked Guillaume ...
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Dispatches: An Interview with Chris Rauschenberg
One of the things I most appreciate about certain artists is their love for their field, even after doing more than any one person should be allowed to do. ...
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Meg Smiley’s Self-Published Children’s Book with Blurb + Kickstarter
Meg Smiley made one of our favorite children’s books, Animals Under the Bed, working with Kickstarter and our Large Order Services team. She has gone on to start a small ...
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GALÁPAGOS by Josef Litt: Made with Large Order Services
Ever since getting hooked on photography as a young boy, Josef Litt has been looking for a way to make a living from his passion. His first self-published book, Galápagos, ...
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Dan Milnor Reports: The Society for Photographic Education Conference
March 1-4 was the Society for Photographic Education's 55th annual conference, hosted by The University of the Arts in Philadelphia. This year’s event was titled ‘Uncertain Times: Borders, Refuge, ...
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Inside the Design Studio of Ciera Holzenthal
Ciera is a New Orleans-based designer with her own studio. She specializes in design for branding, logo, and print. After getting a peek at her gorgeous portfolio, we caught ...