by Nicole Baxter | Dec 12, 2017 | Book Production
Great news! We have signed on to the Renewable*Connect program through Xcel Energy. Now in addition to the eco friendly book printing papers we offer, Bookmobile is now run on 100% wind- and solar-powered clean energy. Our CEO, Don Leeper, says: Our previous...
by Nicole Baxter | Dec 5, 2017 | Book Production
At Bookmobile, we work with over 60 university presses, and in addition to short-run printing we also provide design and typesetting and eBook services. Our quality, customer service, and competitive pricing makes us a great fit for university...
by Nicole Baxter | Nov 16, 2017 | Publisher Case Studies
We are very proud to provide paperback and hardcover printing for many of the nonprofit regional chapters of 826 National. In 2002, the author Dave Eggers and the educator Nínive Calegari founded 826 Valencia. The organization offers free after-school tutoring,...
by Nicole Baxter | Nov 6, 2017 | Art Book Printing
Dismantling Stereotypes is a fine art photography book by the artist Karima White. Karima is a professional photographer in Tucson, Arizona, and this book collects her portraits of black men and boys. As you can see from the really well-designed...
by Nicole Baxter | Oct 30, 2017 | Art Book Printing
We’re offering a new hardcover photo book printing service at Bookmobile: a cloth linen hardcover case with an inset cover image. HOME LESS, pictured above, by the photographer Alfred Brown IV, is a stunning example. Inset Cover Image...
by Nicole Baxter | Oct 20, 2017 | Art Book Printing, Publisher Case Studies
Last spring we produced a beautiful short run catalog printing for the artist Kambui Olujimi, to accompany his solo exhibition Zulu Time at the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art (MMoCA). Kambui is an artist based in New York, and photography, installation,...
by Nicole Baxter | Oct 13, 2017 | Art Book Printing
En Route to Find an Armchair is the second custom art book we’ve produced for Lindsay Buchman. Lindsay is an interdisciplinary artist in Philadelphia whose practice, as her website describes, “explores print media, photography, video,...
by Nicole Baxter | Oct 6, 2017 | Book Production
Questions about a book page count are frequent at Bookmobile—how do you estimate the page count in a manuscript? What counts as a page? And does it need to be divisible by 8, 16, or 32? Read on to learn the scintillating answers to these questions!...
by Nicole Baxter | Oct 2, 2017 | Art Book Printing, Publisher Case Studies
The photo above is from early August, when the artist Ken Avidor biked to Minneapolis from St. Paul to pick up the hardcover copies of his comic printing, Bicyclopolis: A Tale of Human-Powered Time Travel. Our shipping department (Eric, Chris S.,...
by Nicole Baxter | Sep 25, 2017 | Book Production, Publisher Case Studies
Bookmobile has been printing short runs for Button Poetry the last two years, and earlier this year we began to do eBook conversions for them as well. Button Poetry is a Minneapolis-based organization that started publishing books in 2013, and has experienced...
