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16 DIY Gift Wrap Ideas for Books
Sometimes the effort that goes into wrapping a present feels just as important as the gift itself—especially when books are involved. While it’s easy to wrap a heavy square ...
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Kent’s Book Corner: Favorite Family Photo Books
I recently had the pleasure of speaking at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art as a part of Janet Delaney and Stephen Mclaren’s Reinventing the Family Album class. ...
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Author Spotlight: Corey Olds and His Young Storytellers
Corey Olds has a passion for education, innovation, students, and storytelling. He combined all these into an exciting program for students in grades 5-8. We caught up with this ...
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Tim Godbold’s Big Publishing Deal
We just got some exciting news from a Blurb book maker, Timothy Godbold. He has a book coming out this month with international publishing house Phaidon called Military Style ...
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How iPad Illustration Changed My Way of Traveling
A special guest post by Elizabeth Barelli:
Travel being one of my passions, I usually try to spend a lot of time before a trip preparing my itinerary and researching ...
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Polaroid Photography on the Road
It’s 4:52 PM, and I’m in New York, buying toothpaste at a Bodega. No, it’s 12:01 PM and I’m in London and I’m packing books for our next pop-up ...
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Author Profile: Averi Moos
Averi Moos is undoubtedly destined for great things. At the young age of 11, she has achieved a black belt in Tae Kwon Do, and published her first, but ...
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Kent’s Book Corner: Books in (Mostly) Black and White
I’ve always been a big fan of black and white illustrations, particularly when they’re used to tell a story. There’s something about black and white that strips away everything ...
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The Extraordinary Life of Billy Ray – Part 2
A few weeks ago we introduced you to the extraordinary life of Billy Ray, A LIFE Magazine photographer who made his career using 35mm film and then successfully transitioned ...
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Kent’s Corner: Collage Books and Graphic Novels
When it came time for me to do this month’s book column, I just took a little thumb-through of the bookshelf by my desk, looking for a set of ...
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Author Spotlight: Nicholas Sutton Bell
The majority of us grew up reading stories which resulted in a lesson or learning of some sort—think Aesop’s Fables or The Tortoise and the Hare. Arguably, these books ...
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The Need to Record
Occasionally someone asks me why I make pictures. It’s a great question, and one that I’ve answered before, but sometimes I like to retreat back to the face value ...
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Author Spotlight: Jeff Luke (author of Animal Donut)
Jeff Luke is a Seattle-based photographer who has most recently been focused on photographing animals and donuts in creative scenarios. More than anything, he loves the connection created when ...
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Kent’s Magazine Corner
Welcome back to the latest edition of Kent’s Book Magazine Corner. Every month I get to show off some of the coolest and most creative books magazines done with ...
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The Extraordinary Life of Billy Ray – Part 1
Originally we had planned to showcase Billy Ray in our ongoing Author Spotlight series, but after talking to him we realized in order to truly showcase the life of ...
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The Photographer’s Guide to Publishing Photo Books
Even in the digital age—or maybe in spite of it—books continue to captivate us. Photos may look better on screens every year as technology evolves, but they have yet ...
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Curios – A new book by Mike Perry Studio
How amazing is it that we live in a time where it is so easy to make a beautiful book? When Blurb reached out to me, I had made ...
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Kent’s Corner: Illustrated Memoirs by Women
Every month, I get to share the Blurb books I’ve been reading. In case you haven’t been paying attention, we have some really, really good stuff made with us. Well, ...
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Author Spotlight: Roger De Muth
One of the best things about working at Blurb is how often we meet incredibly talented and creative people. The depth and breadth of their work reminds us that ...
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Make the perfect gift (with a little help from your friends)
This is the big one. A “this is your life” photo book. A book you’ll put together to present to a really special person in your life, at a ...
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6 Steps to Make Yearly Kid’s Photo Books
Time flies when you have kids. Those creators of tear-jerking memorabilia aren’t little for long, so the instinct is to preserve everything possible. But keeping absolutely everything from finger ...
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An Interview with Interior Designer Sophie Paterson
Recently we came across STYLE & GLAMOUR, a fantastic book of interior design concepts created by London-based designer Sophie Paterson. Intrigued by its combination of accessible design and flat-out ...
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Free the Cookbook
We think cookbooks are an ideal place to get really creative. Make something amazing, take some pictures, show it all off in a book (Include pictures of the dirty ...
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Wedding Photo Book Tips from Photographer Claire Cordier
An important figure in the Blurb universe is the professional wedding photographer, so we reached out to one of our favorites, UK-based Claire Cordier. She’s had years of experience ...