Showcase nai010 uitgevers | My Collection

By roserowson, November 30, 2014

During the showcase for nai010 uitgevers, we were shown a new mobile application developed by PUNTPIXEL and Medamo. My Highlights lets users create their own, personal ePub from the collection of the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. The application allows users to search by genre, period, artist and so on to assemble their own personal impressions [...]

Showcase BIS Publishers | Phone gap & multi-channel publishing

By roserowson, November 30, 2014

Presenting on behalf of the design agency Essense, Arjen de Jong began by positing the essential question for working with BIS Publishers to create an ebook: (How) can we make rich media, highly interactive publications, accessible on multiple devices at a reasonable cost? As a publishing house, BIS is renowned for its innovative approach to [...]

Towards a hybrid workflow: editor, designer and developer UNITE!

By Becky Cachia, November 30, 2014

In the final showcase of the Digital Publishing Toolkit event in November 2014, Michael Murtaugh presented on behalf of the rest of the Institute of Network Cultures subgroup – that includes Joost Kircz, Silvio Lorusso, Miriam Rasch and Kimmy Spreeuwenberg – to answer the question: How can small edition, low budget publishing houses edit, design, [...]

Context Without Walls – a generative workflow with EPUBster (Digital Publishing Toolkit November 2014)

By Becky Cachia, November 30, 2014

The second showcase of the Digital Publishing Toolkit conference highlighted the collaborative work of the subgroup of Valiz, Meeus Ontwerpt and PUNTPIXEL: Context Without Walls – a generative workflow with EPUBster. The aim of the project was to create a digital (EPUB) version of Common Skin, a publication within the series Context Without Walls. This [...]

Joost Kircz: Going Electronic

By Andre Castro, June 5, 2014

A post by Mathijs Weijers Joost Kircz was the first speaker of the 2-day conference “Off the Press – Electronic Publishing in the Arts”, organized by the Institute of Network Cultures. From 2006 till 2013, Kircz was a part-time lecturer on electronic publishing within the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (Hogeschool van Amsterdam), and currently [...]

Florian Cramer: Electronic publishing in the arts – what works and what doesn’t

By Andre Castro, May 27, 2014