Publish or Perish! is out

By margreet riphagen, April 23, 2018

The PublishingLab is proud to launch, Publish or Perish!, (by Silvio Lorusso and Stef Kors) a research and creation project commissioned by DONE, a thinking and action program by Foto Colectania Foundation that aims to approach the image’s new ecosystem in the digital technology and Internet era. The program is supported by Banc Sabadell Foundation [...]

Hybrid Junior Designer (web/print)

By roberto, January 9, 2018

For our upcoming research program Print/Press we are looking for someone who will research printing products and techniques in collaboration with printers and will document and showcase them in a digital platform. The ideal candidate is interested in print while also familiar with web design and development. With this research project we aim to set [...]

the launch of oneacre.online

By , November 8, 2017

In what follows, I will try to elaborate on the launch of oneacre.online, an experimental publication and distribution project, that aims to utilise its online space to seed unprintable works. oneacre.online begins with an attempt to probe its ambiguous online terrain and determine how much of a space an acre actually is when transposed to [...]

Sprint 1: Introduction

By marijn de vries hoogerwerff, October 31, 2017

The briefing that we received before the first meeting with WPG put the focus of the project on the ‘development of new ways of reading’ and how we could enhance the experience of the reader and thus bring more attention to a new publication. During the first meeting, we met Head Innovation & Development, Laurens [...]

Zinestorming: Textual and morphological observation of the online & offline user generated comments sections

By , September 29, 2017

Our first week at publishing lab started off with a zinestorming session, we were tasked with finding a subject within the broad field of (digital) publishing, getting to know each other and creating a zine. Quickly we narrowed it down on how people interact, focussing more specifically on the culture of comments and how various [...]

Creating an interactive experience for the magazine Volume

By roberto, September 25, 2017

Together with four students from the Master Digital Design we are exploring the online possibilities for the magazine Volume. By making 3 till 5 articles available online, the students are discovering what interactive experience throughout the publication fits bets to Volume, this in order to immerse its audience in a truly digital/interactive way so it feels like [...]

Upcoming: P0es1s – Postdigital show at Kunsttempel (Kassel)

By margreet riphagen, September 4, 2017

The PublishingLab is glad to be a partner in the show p0es1s – postdigital, taking place in Kunsttempel gallery (Kassel) from Sep 14 to Oct 15, 2017. As part of a series of language art exhibitions in 2017, the year of documenta 14 (kasselkultur2017.de), Kunsttempel, Kassel, presents “p0es1s – postdigital”. The international exhibition features artists [...]

Edit This Post; a Collaborative Publishing Platform.

By thereseschedifka, February 27, 2017

Imagine twelve people lawlessly vocalizing their views on a dance performance; all expressing their varied opinions, ideas, inconveniences and questions in a hectic outbreak of dialogue. The scene would be utter chaos: distorted sounds of disagreement, agreement and discovery about the art they had just watch unfold. Now imagine those twelve people possessing the same [...]

Audiobooks in the Hybrid Publishing Workflow

By reiniervriend, January 30, 2017

A bit if context This is the last of a series of posts that belong to a research aimed at automated production of an audiobook within the Hybrid Publishing Workflow. Previous posts revolve around the first audiobooks, text-to-speech software inquiries and a semi-automated approach to the task and its manual counterpart. The Hybrid Publishing Workflow [...]

Make Book Make Soup – Workshop Report

By margreet riphagen, January 10, 2017

Here at the PublishingLab, we often employ a makefile-based workflow to produce multiple outputs (EPUB, PDF, etc) from a single Markdown source. While we believe that this automated workflow works well for our needs, we realized that it doesn’t push forward the idea of what a publication can be. Specifically, it addresses the issues of [...]