Planning & Creating

When writer and photographer, Michelle Yee, took a last minute trip to South Africa, little did she know the impact it would have on her, personally and professionally. We ...

Whether you are a makeup artist just starting out or a seasoned professional, having a professional, well-organized portfolio is must-have to grow your business. New clients, even if they ...

Catalogs are essential sales and marketing tools—either digital or print. Whether you’re promoting a passion project or it’s for your main line of work, a product catalog can help ...

This is a guest post by photographer Dan Rubin, in partnership with Blurb. Dan walks us through his book-creation process from start to finish, and shares his experience using ...

The creative world is a wonderful world, but it is one in which participants are under pressure to conform, at least to some degree. You might think this is ...

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 ...

We’re so excited to announce our newest product—completely custom notebooks and journals, now available in BookWright. Blurb’s easy-to-use software gives you complete creative control. So you can create a ...

The key to completing any book is breaking it into smaller, manageable parts, and then scheduling the work on those smaller parts. Self-publishing a book is no different. When ...

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 ...

Have you ever said, “I’d really like to do a children’s book”? Do you find yourself saying it over and over again, while still not starting? We get it. ...

Last year, some of the best-selling books in the world were poetry books, created by Instagram Poets like Rupi Kaur, Atticus, Nayyirah Waheed, and Nikita Gill. These poets, whose ...

This blog series is designed to provide some basic book layout ideas for your books, magazines, or eBooks. The spreads you see here, and the added notes, are not meant ...

Before printing images, it’s vital to make sure they are optimized for their particular use. Whether you are printing your images as part of a photo book or selling ...

The children’s book you create may be the one that starts a young person on his or her lifelong love affair with books. The best children’s books have a ...

The film vs digital debate has been raging for at least the past decade. There is no clear winner, other than all of us photographers, because we currently have ...

Photo books just got an upgrade! Photo books with Layflat paper make great gifts for holidays, anniversaries, weddings, or any other special occasion. Layflat paper allows images to stretch ...

You know you have a book in you, but maybe you’re struggling with knowing how to start or how to get it done—maybe this is your first time writing ...

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 ...

As our printing technology has gotten better, it’s easy to take color and color accuracy for granted. It seems that with one click of a button the images we ...

One of Blurb’s founding beliefs is that people should be able to create the book they want to make. Whether it’s a family photo book, a portfolio book, or ...

Children’s books are unique in that they require expert storytelling, illustration skills, and a keen focus on the audience before the story is even crafted. Whereas novels and memoirs, usually ...