The iPhone has been in the news of late with sales figures going through the roof and, one assumes, more and more people being turned on to its considerable creative potential. And this is affecting us here at Ilex. 1. If you’re intrigued by [...]
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Pop culture stationery – out now…
Just a quick one to show off our fun new range of journals (or, if you will, notebooks) which are in the shops as of now. There’s something for everyone – whether you’re romantic, gloomy, over-imaginative or ghoulish – and everyone who’s picked up [...]
Did you come here looking for a pig?
Here’s a thing: if you search the internet using google images for a picture of a pig, the second site (in the whole darn world wide web! number two!) that comes up is this one. Specifically, it’s this blog post, about sexism in the [...]
“Readable and inspiring” – Advanced Digital Black & White Photography is out now
We’re back home from the London Book Fair (on which, time allowing, more later) and this is a nice little snippet to welcome us back to our desks… No more than John Beardsworth’s expertise deserves. It’s a well-timed review as the books are right [...]
A side to our customers that we never suspected…
They are very nice at St Martin’s Press (the US end of Macmillan). We’ve done a few books with them (including ZOMBIES! by Jovanka Vuckovic, and Build Your Own Paper Airforce by Trevor Bounford) and have always found their editors to be generous with [...]
Is this the future of book distribution?
Publishers – unlike readers and authors – are obsessively interested in book distribution, the complicated business of getting books from the printer to their eventual readers. I could drone on about the different routes that a book can take on this journey, and the [...]
A big day for Photographer’s i…
Personally speaking, I can’t take any credit for this whatsoever, but anyone who can is unable to blog right now, so it falls to me to announce that the second issue of Photographer’s i – the world’s only fully interactive photography magazine – has [...]
Literary establishment shamed by statistics…
One would have hoped the old boy’s club of literary publishing to have been a thing of the past. Certainly the old-fashioned publishing lunch seems to be, and I can’t remember the last time I worked with anyone wearing a tie (except at bookfairs, [...]
“Weddings, parties, anything…”
Just a quick one to spotlight a really great audio review of Michelle Turner’s Wedding Photography Field Guide. Over at pixiq.com, John Nemo gives it his highest recommendation (“as many thumbs up as I can manage”). So if (like me) you’ve got a couple [...]
Fox News catch up with iPhoneography and Stephanie C. Roberts
We’re firm believers in the idea that this is the age of iPhoneography (and Android photography too) and it’s good to see the mainstream media catching up with the idea. Here’s a nice little interview that foxnews.com conducted with Stephanie Calabrese Roberts (author of [...]
The Art of Medicine – Live in Brighton on Saturday
Dr Emm Johnstone*, one of the distinguished authors of the exceedingly well-reviewed Art of Medicine, will be appearing this Saturday at the Brighton Science Festival, talking about art and medicine. She’s part of a fascinating looking line up that includes a day of full [...]
Q: What noise does a justifiably proud first-time author make? A: “Aaaiiieeee!”
Those who would know better than I tell me that there’s nothing like the thrill of seeing your first book in print. And Jolie O’Dell – author, tech guru and blogger extraordinaire – has just had that thrill, and shared it with the world [...]
