Ideas & Examples

Life often feels like a movie, with each year adding drama, adventure, and romance to the script, and our nearest and dearest in the starring roles. Looking back over ...

This week we’ve got our noses in a few good books—and a couple of great articles—about wine. As always, we’re on the hunt for tasteful stories—the ones that only ...

We talk to a lot of creatives about publishing with Blurb. Photographers, designers, illustrators, artists, and educators—each group has their own style, each person has a distinctive set of ...

If you spend time on Instagram you have probably come across a digital-art movement know as #candyminimal. Candy Minimal was created by Matt Krump and focuses on the use ...

If you are a frequent reader of our blog you know our Author Spotlights highlight authors of all types of books: from quarterly magazines and Kickstarted children’s stories, to ...

I recently had the opportunity to be a speaker at Brightworks Innovation Day. Brightworks brought together an amazing group of people who are doing interesting things while pursuing things ...

Welcome back to Kent’s Corner. This week I delve into one of my favorite genres of all: The children’s section. So pour yourself an apple juice and grab your ...

Every once in a while, you come across a book that people of all ages can love. The Shoephabet by Sarah and James Steele is undoubtedly one of those ...

When was the last time you sat down with a coloring book? Maybe it was when you were using fat crayons and having a hard time staying within the lines. Not ...

I recently read a statistic about the number of people who start but don't finish self-publishing projects. The number was so high I thought for sure it was a ...

We caught up with Pulitzer-Prize-nominated photographer and producer Fiona McDougall to talk about her project, Moroccan Moments. Fiona has 20 years of international experience in photojournalism, editorial, and corporate photography, ...

Celebrating love, romance, and special moments is what we do this time of year—flowers, chocolates, and dinner reservations aren’t exactly a surprise. Though books may not be traditional tokens ...

Each year at Blurb, we set aside one week where we don’t chart a production course for each day—normally they are pretty exact. We don’t scope how much development ...

Not that you were asking, but I, Dan Milnor, am going to share my magazine thoughts with you ... again. Why? First, I'm amazed at how many people don't ...

Did you know that, on average, Americans spend over 11 hours on the internet every day? Our era is a digital one, so it is no surprise that a ...

Landfill Dogs is a book that will truly touch anyone’s heart. We, at Blurb, have yet to find someone who isn’t thoroughly moved by this amazing book created by ...

In 2014 Margaret Galabe wrote to us from Akum, Cameroon. She is the founder and director of a non-profit with the vision of bringing much needed medical care to ...

She’s been a magazine editor and she led cooking tours to Julia Child’s home in the south of France and Italy. Throughout all of this she had something else ...

Susan Rimerman – Director of Creative Professionals Susan is a San Francisco Bay Area native. Besides traveling to the far edges of the globe with her camera, she writes short ...

“I don’t know.” How is it possible that these three words can simultaneously have diametrically opposed meanings? On the one hand saying, “I don’t know,” can mean I am owning ...

We recently came across Daniel’s newest book, Fashion ABC, and needless to say, the talent that pours out of Daniel is remarkable. Daniel created this book as a thesis ...

Do you find yourself recommending certain things to people again and again? Something about that book, that movie, that game, that artist that just makes you want others to ...

Watching my Blurb book project, Eject, take shape from a rejected poster project to book has been an exciting process. I’ve added some new tools to my workflow, including ...

Before I layout my book, Eject, using the Blurb plugin for Adobe InDesign CC, there are a couple of steps I need to complete with my artwork and some ...