bookleteer, Avery labels & StoryCubes
Over the summer we’ve been experimenting with using standard office labels to print StoryCubes designs created with bookleteer and mount them onto blank StoryCubes made and sold by Proboscis. This is proving to be the simplest, cheapest and most effective way we have found to make small numbers of cubes at home or work using … Read more
StoryCube Cairn
This week we tested StoryCubes made with the bookleteer API, as used in artist Simon Pope and programmer Gordon Joly’s StoryCube Cairn project. Simon & Gordon have been experimenting with a simple interface allowing people to embed web links (URLs) as QR Codes onto the cubes which can be read by devices like mobile … Read more
Feature Post on the Bird Song StoryCubes
This weeks feature post is based upon Melissa Bliss’s ‘Bird Song’ set of StoryCubes, which she used as an invitation. Read the e-mail interview I had with her below. RP: What inspired you to use a StoryCube as the invitation leaflet? MB: I chose to make a storycube for several reasons. My exhibition was of a … Read more
Telling Worlds by Frederik Lesage
Telling Worlds A Critical Text by Frederik Lesage A recurring theme underpinning Proboscis’ work is storytelling. Their preoccupation with it is not only reflected in the stories they have told – through works such as Topographies and Tales and Snout – but also in their efforts to explore the practices and forms that enable people … Read more
Feature Post on the Rijeka StoryCubes
The second edition of my ‘feature post’ collection, is based around Dodolab‘s Andrew Hunter and Lisa Hirmer’s set of Rijeka StoryCubes. I emailed Lisa especially because of her design knowledge and background and she came back with some insightful thoughts. Asked why and how the StoryCubes were used Lisa mentioned, “The Rijeka StoryCubes were designed … Read more
Feature post on ‘In the Shadow of Senate House.’
It’s time to take a trip down memory lane I think and visit a featured collection of cubes. In the upcoming weeks I will be writing a few featured posts consisting of e-mail interviews I conducted with the makers of various StoryCubes. This week is the turn of Esther Leslie’s ‘In the Shadow of Senate … Read more
Virtual Storycubes – bringing virtual into reality part 2
As promised here’s the Welcome to the Imagination Age video. Take a look…
Virtual StoryCubes – bringing virtual into reality
You can go to the cinema and watch a movie in 3D or now you can even stay at home and watch TV 3D style! Using 3D pictures on StoryCubes can now even bring video games to life! Students and staff at London Southbank University used this concept to create virtual StoryCubes, whereby displaying 3D … Read more
Architectural Cube
Having an architect as a brother, I have always been exposed to some sort of creativity. I remember when he was creating his CV after he finished University – not in Word, but in a book format on some fancy glossy card, with designs and examples of his work, illustrating his skill. It leads me … Read more
Tell a story through your own eyes…
Stories are traditionally told with words and images in some cases. However a StoryCube allows you to not only do both, but also tell a story just using images on each face of the cube. I think this is a great way of telling a story as it allows the reader to have the opportunity … Read more
