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Blurb is a self-publishing bookmaking platform & community for creating beautiful photo books & more.
Using column text not only elevates your book's design but also optimizes readability. 📝
With BookWright by Blurb, you can choose from a variety of professionally designed text column templates. And with the auto-flow text feature, it's easy to automatically run long-form text (like novel manuscripts or lengthy journal entries) across multiple columns or pages.
Check out the full video, Book Design Q&A Part 2, on our YouTube channel: https://bit.ly/4g86gC2
08/14/2026
"Music wouldn't be advertised without design, and design becomes stagnant without employing musical qualities such as rhythm, contrast, and harmony."
Beia Smith-Shaw is a graphic designer and musician who has long understood that the two fields share more than most people realize—the same principles, the same vocabulary, and the same goal of moving an audience.
Her BFA thesis, Headliner, is what happens when those worlds collide: a brand new typeface designed to serve as a visual language for music, built from the rhythms, dynamics, and movement she knows from both sides of the creative process.
To present the work, she needed a format that could keep up. Blurb's layflat book gave every page the full spread it deserved, with no gutters swallowing the details and no small format shrinking the scale of the typography.
Discover "Headliner" in the Blurb Bookstore: https://bit.ly/4z5sQnu
Incorporating text in your book, even if it's visually led, significantly enhances storytelling. Blurb creative ambassador and professional photographer Dan Milnor breaks down why. ✍️
Check out the full video "Book Design Q&A Part 2" on our YouTube channel: https://bit.ly/4weZKiB
The Blurb creative team in Hong Kong, on film. 📸
Which one is your favorite?
Hardcover or softcover book? 🤔
We're back with another round of answers to your frequently asked questions on book design. In this episode, Blurb creative ambassador Dan Milnor breaks down important things to consider when selecting your book format.
Check out the full video "Book Design Q&A Part 2" on our YouTube channel: https://bit.ly/4caIYdj
Practice doesn't make perfect. But practice definitely makes progress.✨
The same is true in bookmaking. Becoming a better designer and storyteller doesn't happen overnight. It happens through frequent, incremental, intentional practice.
Head to our YouTube channel for free book design resources: https://bit.ly/3TuXpCz
07/28/2026
A few moments from Hong Kong with the Cathay Camera Club. 📸
We're a company for creatives, by creatives. So we always love when we get a chance to get out into the field, be a part of the community, and make something real.
(Bonus points when dumplings are involved. 🥟)
Nobody tells you that the small steps are actually the big steps. 💡
When we don't know how to start or where to start, it's time for curiosity to take the lead—and that's exactly what zine making is all about.
06/26/2026
Photography Without Borders is a Philadelphia-based nonprofit teaching young artists to document their world through photography. Their annual Photo Review book brings that work together, showcasing photographs and stories from youth across seven programs, from younger students picking up a camera for the first time to high school students pairing their images with writing coached this year by poet Ursula Rucker.
This year's cover belongs to Jazmine "Jazzy" Silva Sanchez, a student of the organization since 7th grade, who traveled to Mexico at 20 and documented her trip in a stunning photo series. One image, taken at a Three Kings Day celebration, made it to the front cover of this year's edition.
"Going back to Mexico really helped me gain an understanding of the culture, the traditions, and the role my culture plays in my life and why. I feel more self-assured, I feel more confident, I feel more 'me' than I did before."
Discover the printed work by Photography Without Borders' emerging artists in the Blurb Bookstore: https://bit.ly/3SjlPhS
Ann Orman is back for another session of Create with Me: Travel Books ✨
Follow along as Ann and Dan Milnor build a travel book using BookWright. They'll walk us through their design decisions, provide storytelling tips, and answer audience questions in real time.
June 30 at 4 p.m. PT | 7 p.m. ET
July 1 at 9 a.m. AEST | 11 a.m. NZST
RSVP for free: https://bit.ly/4dOIL0L
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