by Don Leeper | Mar 30, 2015 | Art Book Printing, Print Positive
I’ve covered the photo book design options in previous posts in detail—maybe too much detail! In this post I’m going to sum up my conclusions from testing and analyzing the following options: using professional layout tools like Adobe InDesign or...
by Nicole Baxter | Mar 26, 2015 | Art Book Printing, Publisher Case Studies
Bookmobile recently printed a beautiful art gallery catalog for the Dr. M. T. Geoffrey Yeh Art Gallery at St. John’s University in Queens, NY. Isamu Noguchi: Patent Holder: Designing the World is a unique exhibition catalog with a very tall...
by Don Leeper | Mar 18, 2015 | Book Production, Dropship and Distribution, Opinion, Print Positive
On the occasion of Bookmobile’s thirty-third birthday, our social media maven Nicole Baxter asked me to write up our Origin Story. As I am saving extensive fact checking, memory checking, and actual research for the multi-volume hardcover edition, I guarantee...
by Nicole Baxter | Mar 16, 2015 | Opinion
We love printing books here at Bookmobile so much so that we even do it in our spare time. And why wouldn’t we? We are in Minneapolis, one of the most literary cities in the country. Besides all the super presses like Coffee House Press, Graywolf Press,...
by Don Leeper | Mar 11, 2015 | Art Book Printing, Print Positive
Adobe Lightroom and Apple Aperture both serve the same function: organizing and editing digital photographs. They both have robust tool sets for converting from RAW camera files, tagging and organizing photos, performing most image editing tasks, and printing single...
by Nicole Baxter | Mar 10, 2015 | Publisher Case Studies
Fairy Tale Review, from Wayne State University Press, is a fun journal to print. It is an annual literary journal that publishes NEW fairy tales. Stories from Fairy Tale Review have been included in The O. Henry Prize Stories...
by Don Leeper | Mar 5, 2015 | Art Book Printing, Print Positive
Among the options for creating a fine art or professional photo book are page layout tools included in Adobe Lightroom and Apple Aperture. But how well do these tools work? In previous posts in this series, I covered choosing page layout software if you want to DIY,...
by Nicole Baxter | Mar 3, 2015 | Art Book Printing, Publisher Case Studies
One beautiful series of of art books that Bookmobile prints is Blackston’s exhibition catalogs. We’ve been working with Blackston, owned by Rhiannon Kubicka and Theodore Blackston, since 2012. Theodore Blackston first heard about Bookmobile through...
by Don Leeper | Feb 26, 2015 | Art Book Printing, Print Positive
Photographers have many options for creating a fine art or professional photo book: layout tools like InDesign, tools in Lightroom and Aperture, software from POD services, and, of course, hiring a book designer. This post covers the last option. Book Design:...
by Nicole Baxter | Feb 19, 2015 | Book Production
Every now and then someone surprises me and asks if Bookmobile’s book printing and book binding is archival quality. The answer is YES! Our paper is acid free. We print for university presses. We print for museums. We print books about the...
