Hey guys,
I don't know if you guys in Davis are getting ready for round 2 of the Collab or not, but Tracy twittered this site www.blurb.com and it's basically a self-publishing service that lets you print your own books for a relatively cheap price. After thinking of all the books that I wanted to print from my Design classes, I thought of the Collab. If you guys are still thinking of doing the Collab Process book from last year, this would definitely be a good place to do it.
From how I picture it, we would put the book together on InDesign or whatever, then have Blurb print one copy of softcover and one of hardcover as our "proof" to see how they look. We could fix whatever little things from the proof and print a bunch of copies for other Collabers to purchase as well as anyone who wants to buy it. This will no doubt take about a few months to put together and work through, but if we do this quick enough, we could have the mass copies printed about a month or two before the next Collab Show (assuming that it's held in May again) and sell them as a way of publicizing the next show, much like how the TV and film industries sell DVDs of the previous series movie or season right before the next one comes out or premieres!
So yeah, what do y'all think?
-Ivan
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That's pretty neat ivan -- would you suggest this for porfolios too? To answer your curiosity, we are, in fact, going to be having another show this year -- having a process book would be fantastic. =)
When I first came across Blurb it was in reference to portfolios on the LiveJournal Graphic Design Group. I really would like to get one of these done to present my work, but I would like some more work to fill it up with =)
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