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Paris Photo 2023
Editor’s note: Dan Milnor, Blurb’s creative evangelist, spent a week in Paris at some of the world’s most premier photo and book events. This is what he learned.
It has ...
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Blurb introduces tiny books
Editor’s note on April 2, 2023: Blurb Tiny Books are not actually a new offering, just a little April Fools’ Day fun. For book sizes we do offer, check ...
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#BlurbMoment Sweepstakes Rules
Every moment is a story. Every story is a gift.
From November 21-25, we’ll share a daily prompt on our social media. Submit your moment by tagging @BlurbBooks and using ...
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The 24-Hour Zine Challenge
Creators can take months—or even years to perfect a book. That’s not what this challenge is about.
Zines (DIY self-published booklets or pamphlets) aren't about lengthy perfection, they're about sharing ...
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Webinar: How photographers make money
It’s always exciting to partner with brands that are focused on what’s important: creatives and their success. We recently joined forces with ShootDotEdit and Jared Platt to do just ...
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Blurb at Artexpo 2018
A team from Blurb flew across the country this week to what we thought would be a lovely spring weekend in New York, filled with beautiful art. There was ...
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San Francisco Art Book Fair
The San Francisco Art Book Fair has come and gone. For those of you who don’t know, or have never attended an art book fair, I wanted to give ...
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Blurb Takes on Creative Pro Week in Atlanta
Last week, the Blurb team descended on Creative Pro Week in Atlanta, Georgia. Billed as “Four How-To Conferences for Creative Professionals,” it’s generally seen as a ‘must-attend’ for designers, ...
Events & News, Photography
Palm Springs Photo Festival Recap 2017
I’ve just returned from the Palm Springs Photo Festival, which is one of my favorite weeks of the year. If you are unfamiliar with this event just know that ...
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Blurb X PicsArt Contest
Enter Our #BlurbXPicsArt Contest
Spring has sprung! What will you begin? We're excited to announce that we've teamed up with PicsArt, a super fun photo editing app that lets you be ...
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Blurb at Modernism Week
“Why are we here?” I repeated back to the gentleman in enormous sunglasses who was leafing through a copy of CATT Architects 30 Years. “Even books need vacations.”
I was joking, of course. ...
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Blurb at Adobe MAX
Last week I shrugged off my introverted self and headed south to San Diego and Adobe Max 2016. According to reports there were upwards of 10,000 attendees walking the ...
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How to Make Books with The Doodle Man
We were two weeks into the Spring Road Show, and I was standing in the historic Truman Brewery on Brick Lane, in London’s East End, talking to a man ...
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Celebrating Women in Tech
Today's guest post comes from Judith Basler:
On Tuesday, June 28 Blurb and Thompson Reuters sponsored the meet-up group: Women & Technology, Bay Area. The event was dedicated to the topic ...
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Bricks and Books: A Midsummer’s Night Revelry in London
Every quarter RIBA, (Royal Institute of British Architects) opens its beautiful 1930s Art Deco headquarters in London. Late into the evening, they host architectural fans for cheerful mingling and ...
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Blurb Roadshow goes Australian
We’ve hit the road to join the great, global conversations about books, photography, and art. The Blurb Roadshow was launched in the fall of September 2015 with the goal ...
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Blurb Roadshow: The London Edition
We’ve hit the road to join the great, global conversations about books, photography, and art. The Blurb Roadshow was launched in the fall of September 2015 with the goal ...
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Bikes and Books: Our Amsterdam Roadshow Recap
The Blurb Road Show (the spring edition) kicked off in April in Amsterdam. It’s a city we’ve long wanted to visit—and not for the reasons you might think. No, ...
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Experiential Marketing: Why it’s Crucial and Why it Works so Well for Us
Our Global Roadshow was an amazing success. Meeting with people on the ground, working with partner communities, attending conferences and festivals, and hosting small curated events and meet-ups have ...
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The Blurb Roadshow: What’s next?
In the fall, our valiant Blurb team hit the road to kickoff phase 1 of our Roadshow tour. The aim was to really connect with our people on the ...
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Storytelling & World-changing: The TED Fellows Coffee Table Book
In February 2015, an exciting project came across my desk: The folks at TED, famous for their TED Talks (“Ideas worth spreading”), wanted to create a book for the ...
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Bonjour, Paris College of Art!
As part of the Blurb Road Show tour in Paris, the trio of Dan Milnor, Kent Hall, and I held a book-making workshop at the Paris College of Art ...
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The Lost Rolls NYC
“Nothing in New York EVER fills up in nineteen minutes,” the stranger whispered in my ear shortly after the doors opened at the NYC launch of The Lost Rolls, ...
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The Blurb Road Show Goes Parisian
So far the Blurb Road Show has taken us to creative communities in Portland, Seattle, and New York, and we’ve had a fantastic time meeting and—we hope—inspiring new book-makers. ...