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09/03/2026

How do you actually build a career from your creative work?

Join Blurb's creative ambassador, Dan Milnor, for a live conversation about finding your voice, building an audience, and selling your work—from someone who's done it.

He'll share practical strategies from decades in the field and open the floor for your questions.

RSVP for free: https://bit.ly/4xpOGRp

🗓️ September 24 at 4 p.m. PT | 7 p.m. ET

08/31/2026

Handled with care by real people, every single time. 💙

08/27/2026

Designing for print has a way of asking questions that a screen never does.

"Dragons in Saigon" is the debut photobook by Alexander Dilling, a German photographer who traveled to Vietnam to document Tết, the Vietnamese New Year, through the lens of a city where old traditions and modern life exist side by side.

The book grew out of a workshop with the Raw Society, where Dilling learned to think beyond individual street photographs and toward a cohesive visual narrative. Daily review sessions, structured editing advice, and a first draft produced on the final day of the workshop gave the project its bones. The rest came together at home, through careful sequencing, unexpected image pairings, and a few lessons that changed how he thinks about photography altogether.

Find "Dragons in Saigon" in the Blurb Bookstore: https://www.blurb.de/b/12854460-dragons-in-saigon

08/24/2026

Hot take: People will likely judge your book by its cover. 📘

Blurb creative ambassador and professional photographer Dan Milnor talks about important considerations when choosing your book's cover image.

Check out the full video, Book Design Q&A Part 2, on our YouTube channel: https://bit.ly/4g86gC2

08/20/2026

Failure is part of the process. 🎨

Collage artist and Blurb creator David Schuster doesn't dwell on it. He just keeps creating. We visited him in his studio for a behind-the-scenes look at his work and his book.

Watch the full interview on our YouTube channel: https://bit.ly/3Srna6G

08/17/2026

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

08/10/2026

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

08/06/2026

The Blurb creative team in Hong Kong, on film. 📸
Which one is your favorite?

08/03/2026

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

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