Category Archives: book publishing

Artypeeps have a new Facebook page

Ahoy peeps! Those of you in the Artypeeps Facebook network will know that we have almost 900 Facebook friends all around the world. We want to get our network up into the thousands so we’ve now started a fan page. We’ll be profiling some of our favourite designers, illustrators, artists and other wonderful creatives on this new page. We’ll also be handpicking fans of our page to profile their work so we need to see lots of talented peeps liking the page!

Visit the new Artypeeps Fan Page, click ‘LIKE’ and then spread the word to all your friends. Thanks!

Indiependence Day marks the end of Sober October

We’ve been working hard this month to stay off the booze and save our beer money to spend on books so on 1st November we’ll be throwing a little drinks party to retox and celebrate the end of Sober October. All welcome but please RSVP (see invite) as numbers are limited.

The event is kindly sponsored by Naked Wines (in keeping with our commitment to supporting independent businesses) and will be hosted by the lovely Treadwells bookshop in Bloomsbury.

If you don’t already know about the campaign visit the Sober October website to find out more.

Getting into Book Design

storify logoInterested in book design? View our Storify story, Getting into Book Design, that showcases the best things about book design and tells you where to find out more if you’d like to get into book design in the UK.

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Click here to view our story on Storify

We are hiring: WordPress developer for premium theme development

wordpress logoWe are looking for a developer to build a fully customisable WordPress theme. We will provide the architecture and creative but we need a talented developer to create the backend. We can be flexible with the design if it means being able to customise an existing theme so would be happy to talk to theme developers who already have their own theme library. Please contact Kristen via email for a longer job spec.

Update: This Post is now closed – we will be contacting shortlisted developers by close of business Friday 14 October. Please note that due to a large number of submissions we will only be able to contact successful candidates.

London Art Book Fair at the Whitechapel Gallery: Friday 23 – Sunday 25 September

London Art Book Fair at Whitechapel GalleryThis weekend is one of the most exciting events on the artists book calendar – The London Art Book Fair at Whitechapel Gallery. Those with an interest in high-end art books (ie. the most beautiful of beautiful reproductions), wonderfully handcrafted artists’ books and anything to do with the book as art will not be disappointed. There are also a couple of events on digital media and art publishing including a 4pm session on Saturday called Turning the virtual page: The digital future of art publishing A few of the Artypeeps crew will be there on the Friday and Saturday so come along and enjoy the book for reasons other than words!

See the full London Art Book Fair programme here and remember to pre-book your tickets, even to the free events.

Author Website: Jasmine Richards

We are thrilled to be working with debut children’s author Jasmine Richards on her new website. The site – www.jasminerichards.com will be up and running in the next couple of months, in time for the release of Jasmine’s first novel, The Book of Wonders. Here’s a sneak peak:

Bravo! Pearson embrace open source

pearson logoThe Bookseller today reported that Pearson (Mother of Penguin, FT, Dorling-Kindersley etc) have embraced open source by releasing it’s new Plug and Play platform complete with an open API. This is excellent news for publishing. There are many advantages to using the open source approach to develop new products (some of which I have written about before in relation to Steve Jobs and Apple) – and I’m looking forward to seeing how innovative publishers will be with it.

Pearson’s challenge now is to prove that opening up their content and intellectual property in this way will not diminish rewards for the content creators (ie. authors).

Read the full article on the Bookseller.

- Kristen

Book vs. E-Book

my my my matthew youngHerewith, the creative genius of Matthew Young, Penguin Press Art’s newest recruit. As far as the print vs. pixels debate goes, we couldn’t have said it better ourselves.

 

Book vs. E-Book: Episode 1 – Touch & Smell from Matthew Young on Vimeo.

Book Arts Newsletter: Issue no. 67

OUT NOW: The August/September issue of the BOOK ARTS NEWSLETTER, edited by Sarah Bodman and published by the Centre for Fine Print Research at the University of the West of England (UWE).

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IN THIS ISSUE:
Cover page – FLAG XI – PEACE by Christina Mitrentse

EXHIBITIONS IN AUGUST and September, INCLUDING:
Stephen Fowler. Obscure Small Press Publications and Unfinished Books. Bower Ashton Library, UWE Bristol.
Linda Welch. 23 Sandy Gallery, Portland, USA
Multiple, Limited, Unique. The Center for Book Arts, New York
Claude Rutault. CDLA, France
Fine and Dirty: Contemporary Letterpress Art. Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Minneapolis MN
Les paris sont ouverts. The Freud Museum, London
The Emblem of My Work. Shandy Hall, Coxwold, UK
Paper Art Exhibition. Bildungshaus St. Benedikt, Austria
Al-Mutanabbi Street Broadsides. Westminster Reference Library, London

COURSES, LECTURES, CONFERENCES & WORKSHOPS, INCLUDING:
Bookbinding workshops with Lori Sauer
Print Workshops at St Brides, London
Handmade Printed Books with Theresa Easton
Scripture of the gaze: the space between word and image. Artist-led meetings in Sao Paulo, Brazil with Edith Derdyk
Weekend Courses in Artists Books, Denmark
Courses at the Scuola Internazionale di Grafica, Venice, Italy

OPPORTUNITIES AND CALLS FOR ENTRIES INCLUDING:
The NSW Guild of Craft Bookbinders announces the 3rd JCA Steel Bookbinding Design Competition
The Sixth Manchester Artists Book Fair
7th Moscow International Artists Book Fair
Songs of Innocence and Experience – A Book Project devoted to the works of William Blake
A Call to Celebrate THE TENTH ANNIVERSARY of bookartbookshop
Women’s Studio Workshop Opportunities for Artists

NEW ARTISTS PUBLICATIONS, INCLUDING:
Bracketpress
Crux Desperationis
THE ABC OF FEARS. Famous people’s phobias by Dmitry Sayenko
Future Fantasteek! No.11 by Jackie Batey
Room by Vishwa Shroff & Katsushi Goto
PLI Arte & Design No1.

REPORTS AND REVIEWS INCLUDING:
Sea of Lanterns by Ewa Monika Zebrowski and Anne Michaels. Review by Stefan Zebrowski-Rubin
The Artist in the Library. The University of East London, June 2011. Report by Nicholas Brown
Rosie Miles’ project – A Note for Book Arts Newsletter from Joseph J Field
Doverodde Book Arts Festival 2011, Denmark. Report by Mette-Sofie D. Ambeck
2011 Southern Cross University Acquisitive Artists’ Book Award. Review by Doug Spowart

Next deadline: 1st September 2011 for the (late) September – October Newsletter.

Download this issue plus all the back issues from the Book Arts Newsletter website.

Pathways by Nicholas Rudd-Jones and David Stewart

Pathways: Journeys along Britain’s history byways, from pilgrimage routes to smuggler’s trails is another meaty project for Guardian Books. Artypeeps managed the production and proofreading from manuscript to final files while the design and layout was done by Two Associates and the excellent maps are by Darren Bennett. This was a big book with full colour integrated images throughout and various components in the text design that needed careful attention. Lots of hard work but a really fabulous job done by everyone involved (not least the authors!). You can get hold of it from Guardian Books.