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These travel wallets from @redarrowworkshop in Louisiana are made from American-sourced leather and perfectly fit both their custom Scout Books and your passport. 🎯
The developers at Aten Design Group are pixel AND print savvy. Love the red staples and inside cover printing on their notebooks. 👍👍
Film Box & Russell Shaw
“Our Passion is Your Passion.” That’s the motto of Film Box, a full-service film photography lab in Nashville, Tennessee. Founded by photographers Ryan Bernal and Austin Gros, Film Box is dedicated to the unique beauty of film photography in an era of ubiquitous digital snapshots. They elaborate on their website:
Film has been a tried & true photographic medium. Advances in technology are great, but often times remove the human, tangible element. While some may think film photography is a dying art form in this digital world, we beg to differ. As photographers in search of beautiful images & a simple workflow return to this classic medium, we have – and are currently – witnessing a renaissance of film. This return to film photography is happening at a time when there are fewer labs offering film development & scanning services. We are simply trying to do our part.
Film Box processes and scans photos for clients around the world, delivering both high-quality digital files and negatives for maximum flexibility. Negatives are shipped in a handsome wooden box, or can be picked up at Film Box’s beautiful space in the heart of Nashville.
When Film Box decided to make a custom journal to include in their clients’ orders as a little bonus, they turned to Atlanta, Georgia-based designer and illustrator Russell Shaw. Russell created this charming Scout Book. Featuring drawings of over a dozen film cameras, from the famed Polaroid SX-70 (Side note: If you haven’t watched this amazing film by Charles & Ray Eames about Polaroid’s ground-breaking camera, do yourself a favor and check it out!) to modern SLR cameras, the journal is the perfect companion for the on-the-go photographer. Says Shaw of the illustrations:
From an aesthetic perspective, I think the Hassleblads are just really cool looking, and enjoyed creating and including the illustrations of those. But from a more personal perspective, I intentionally included the Pentax P30 because it was actually my first film camera that I learned to shoot and develop myself. I thrifted an old P30 in high school and would take it out to shoot around my hometown and then develop at the school’s lab; even into college, I’d stay up late at the university art center working in the dark room. I’m not a photographer in any way, but I always had a lot of fun with that, and so I wanted to pay a little homage to my first camera in the illustrations.
Adding a simple, two-color band to the design is the perfect finishing touch, elevating the design, connecting the book to the overall packaging design, and making the client feel extra special!
Many thanks to Film Box for sharing their photos with us!
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Scout power! ❤️
Ink palette refresh, comin' soon! 🌈🌈 #research #inkandpaper #shoplife (at Scout Books)
Photo shoot notebook potpourri. ❤️💜💚 (at Scout Books)
Knock knock. Who's there? Franklin Pierce. Franklin Pierce who? Exactly.
Happy Galentines Day, all you hotties! ❤️🔥💃
Our team not only prints, binds and ships Scout Books – they also design them! Take a look at Studio Director Meg's recent project. Navy ink + yellow staples!
Sharpen
Sharpen
Exclaim Books (a division of tNY Press, formerly theNewerYork) is a publisher of experimental fiction of all shapes and sizes, combining words and images to generate a gestalt which is challenges the reader to examine the interplay of art and literature in new and exciting ways.
One of their latest publications is Sharpen, a collection of short pieces by author Rich Ives. Each chapter (most of which are a page or less in length) is illustrated with pen and ink drawings by Jack Callil, with additional diagrams by designer Nils Davey. The cumulative effect for the reader is a mix of familiarity and confusion; as Exclaim Books describes on their website:
It’s a catalog that you can’t order anything from. A manual with no instructions. In Sharpen, Rich Ives takes the reader through a series of meditations inspired by tools, bodies, and stranger things. A mix of the surreal and the mundane, these short fictions deal with father-daughter relationships, communication, and intellect, sometimes discarding conventional grammar in favor of a language of emotion.
In Sharpen, Rich Ives takes the reader through a series of meditations inspired by tools, bodies, and stranger things. A mix of the surreal and the mundane, this book explores father-daughter relationships, communication, farm life, and intellect, sometimes disregarding conventional grammar in favor of a language of emotion. Made up of flash fiction, diagrams, captions, and illustrations, Sharpen is a pastoral work of fiction with a healthy dose of experimentation.
Sharpen is presented as a Mega Scout Book, 5″ x 7″ with a generous 48 pages of words and pictures for the reader to explore. The handsome chipboard cover features a design by Nils Davey in bold Black and Orange inks. Surprisingly hefty and substantial feeling, Sharpen is sure to please literature lovers and design aficionados alike!
Sharpen is available to purchase at the Exclaim Books website, along with other tNY projects such as theEEEL (The Electronic Encyclopedia of Experimental Literature) and the literature magazine The Shrug.
PROJECT SPECS
Scout Book Mega
5x7in
48 pages
Cover Printing – Black, Orange
Custom Interior – Black
Loving the thoughtful #sketch kits from @inkwellio - pens before pixels #design #designthinking
Pens before pixels indeed!
Never know when to just leave it alone. #reminder #sketchbook #art #drawing #first #page
My little notebooks have arrived! Printed and made by @scoutbooks! They look awesome! So excited! #scoutbooks #giveaway #illustration #portrait #people #selfpromo
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Can’t visit Brooklyn Art Library in person? Check out the rest of this book by Josie Sylvester and 15,000+ more in The Sketchbook Project’s digital library online at www.sketchbookproject.com/library 💻 #sketchbookproject (at Brooklyn Art Library)
Lovely illustration!
Defend New Orleans
We all have pride for the places we live. The team on our baseball hats, the license plates on our cars, the flags flying in front of our houses…these are all indicators of home pride.
Defend New Orleans is a well-loved local brand that creates place-based products to celebrate New Orleans culture. From their “WHO DAT?” t-shirts and baby onesies to their Saints-jersey-shaped beer coozie, the brand creates products that bring people together to share the NOLA love. Not only do they breed love for their city, they share that love. A portion of the profits from every sale goes to support a local non-profit doing good work in New Orleans and the surrounding area.
They opened up a retail space just last year, and created a set of Scout Books to coincide with their grand opening. They recently produced a second round of their popular pocket notebooks, introducing two new designs.
Their classic design features their mohawk skull logo, a favorite image that represents “the local pride and independent spirit” of the city, according to Virginia from Defend New Orleans.
Another Scout Book features the saying, “Only New Orleans is real, the rest is done with mirrors,” which was appropriated from a vintage postcard and redrawn for this book. The third book in the series is a remake of Benjamin Franklin’s well-known political cartoon“Join or Die.” Defend New Orleans re-worked the familiar image to match the shape of the Mississipppi River and is labeled to reference neighborhoods in New Orleans.
Head over to DNO’s online shop to get your own New Orleans’ pride gear. Or, better yet, stop into their brick and mortar shop at First and Magazine Street in the Garden District.
Thanks to DNO for the use of some of their photos!
Valentine’s Day DIY Stencil Notebook with Anna Joyce
Create beautiful, one-of-a-kind gifts for your sweetie in this workshop with artist and author Anna Joyce! Tickets are just $25!
This hands-on workshop, held at Scout Books World HQ in SE Portland, will teach you how to hand-print on our DIY Notebooks using stencils. Students will get the chance to cut and print their own designs, and pre-cut stencils will be available to print as well.
Your enrollment fee includes up to 10 Scout Books to print on in class, and students will get an exclusive discount on Scout Books purchased on site as well!
Limited to 12 students. Age 16+ only. Includes the use of sharp implements.
About the instructor: Anna Joyce is a master of pattern and color. Working out of her home in Portland, each and every Anna Joyce piece is lovingly handmade and printed here in Oregon. Anna’s line of beautifully patterned products spans fashion accessories, paper goods, and homewares. Her first book on hand-printing and painting patterns for wardrobe and home is being published in Fall 2015 with STC Craft.
Purchase tickets online.
Sunday, February 8th, 2015 1–4pm Scout Books World HQ Portland, OR
Alison Rose Screenprinted DIY Scout Books
Alison Rose is truly a mom and pop screen print shop located in Columbus, Ohio. Made up of husband and wife team, Alison and Nicholas Nocera, their shop specializes in high quality hand-screen printed apparel, wallets, posters and other goods. We were so thrilled when we came across their Etsy page and saw the DIY Scout Books that they screenprint!
Nick and Alison were kind enough to answer a few of our questions:
What do you love about screenprinting?
It's a little bit of the unknown, when you are finally printing your design, and being able to see how all the prep work and setup you've done comes together. There is also a DIY quality to screen printing, the fact that there are 101 ways to get to the same result, you don't have to have a giant shop filled with automatic presses to create something. Even in the wake of Digital printing, there is a long tradition to the art of printmaking, like comparing vinyl records to MP3's. It's satisfying as an artist to be able to design artwork, burn a screen, and print the image, all in the span of a few hours.
What inspired you to start offering live screenprinting at events? We started first doing the live printing at local Craft Shows, and got a really great response. People really loved being able to see the process of screen printing. We put a lot of work into building a traveling press, that fit the ascetic of our shop, so we could still be recognized while out doing events. Last year also brought the need for a second traveling press, a smaller, tabletop version, so now we are able to do a huge variety of events big and small.
Describe a typical day in the studio. That's a hard one, our typical day ranges day to day because we have many facets to our business. Somedays we are creating new designs, while getting inspired by our VHS collection. Other days we are printing all day, filling custom orders, wholesale orders, or pumping up our own stock. Usually everyday we are at the computer working on correspondence, helping customers in our store, and printing something, be it shirts, fabric for our handmade goods, or paper goods.
What are you excited about for 2015? We are excited to move our business forward by gaining exposure through new wholesale accounts, as well as putting a stronger focus on our handmade goods and paper goods. We hope to hold classes and workshops in our space as well.
What's been in heavy rotation on the stereo lately? Music plays a giant role in our studio. Jenny Lewis/ The Voyager, The Kyle Sowashes/ Yeah Buddy, Beck/ Morning Phase, Connections/ Into Sixes, Weakerthans/ Left and Leaving, (and if the moment strikes Beyonce/ Beyonce)
Thanks to Alison and Nick for taking the time to answer our questions, and for sharing their photos with us!
PROJECT SPECS: DIY POCKET-SIZED / SCREENPRINTED / DOT GRID INTERIOR