Ahhh, the glamour of the silver screen… irresistible. Which is why these oversize mood boards have been creating quite a stir in the office. Rough and ready they may be, but they are a little bit of Hollywood magic – for they are where [...]
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A little bit of Hollywood…
Michael Freeman opens up to photographers
If you’re interested in knowing a bit more about what makes prolific photographer Michael Freeman tick, then a few interviews have emerged from his recent tour of the Unites States. Perhaps one of the most interesting is this, by Anthony Dean of the Philadelphia [...]
The e-Book Cover Conundrum
Everyone, in every publisher, all over the world, knows that the cover design question is the knottiest in the business. Should you go typographic? Literal? Photographic? Graphic? Lots of words? Few words? Author name in 176pt gold embossed type? Matt finish or gloss? These [...]
Authors, authors everywhere…
One of the great things about publishing such a broad range of photography titles as we Ilex Photo bods do is that you meet your photographers in the strangest of places, whether physical or virtual. While browsing the web for the next big thing, [...]
Coming soon: The Art of Medicine, a catalogue of curiosity
Bye, bye Indian summer; hello flu-season. My, don’t you look nice! New hair? Looking at Luke Jerram’s stunning glass sculpture of the H1N1 Swine Flu Virus, you might be forgiven by colleagues this season for passing on a common cold. Jerram’s sculpture is an [...]
Want to Write A Book? Write a Blog First…
I was on a New Year sales trip to the US when one of our regular partners (a really canny publisher) remarked to me that on vacation she had been buttonholed by no fewer than three people who had ‘an idea for a book’. [...]
Photo Plus Expo 2011 New York
Ah, the glamorous jet-set life of the professional photographer. Not only do they travel around the globe between beautiful vistas and dramatic scenes (or between beautiful models and drama queens, depending on their line of work), but also there’s the opportunity to meet the [...]
The Photographer’s Vision is Out Now
It’s a real pleasure to announce that The Photographer’s Vision, by Michael Freeman, is now in the shops. This is a title we’ve been hotly anticipating and which marks a departure for our Photo list. Unlike most of our Photo titles, it’s not a [...]
Coming Soon – iPad for Photographers
Ilex Photo is delighted to announce the launch of an exciting new title, iPad for Photographers, out this month! An aficionado of all things Apple, author Ben Harvell is former editor of iCreate magazine, as well as a veteran writer for a wide range of [...]
Landscape Photography Field Guide joins the series
The Field Guide series has proven phenomenally successful with photographers, making it possible to carry around a great deal of professional expertise in a convenient lightweight format, smaller than a paperback novel (and priced around the same too). Better still, they’re printed in full [...]
The Walking Dead returns to TV: behind the scenes on Charlie Adlard’s ZOMBIES! cover
Seems like it’s been a long time coming, but smash hit zombie telly series The Walking Dead finally shambles back onto our screens this month. Season 2 of the show starts in the US on Sunday 16 October and in the UK on Friday [...]
Beautiful Bicycles
There’s nothing more beautiful than a well-painted bicycle. That’s what several of us here sincerely believe – and we’re keen to find the evidence to back up our hunch. So much so that we’re putting up a cash prize for the most beautiful bicycle [...]
