Tag Archives: storycubes

Original size StoryCubes back in stock
We now have new stock of the original size StoryCubes and are fulfilling back orders. Due to increases in international shipping costs, we have had to raise prices for non-UK customers slightly, but we have held our UK prices. Order a pack of 48 cubes online now (from £19.99) or, for larger quantities (250, 500 […]

Kickstarting PlayCubes
Outside The Box is a “game engine for your imagination” – designed to inspire you to create and play your own games on your own or with others, indoors or outside. It’s made up of 27 cubes, 3 layers of 9 cubes, each layer being a distinct game : Animal Match, Mission Improbable and StoryMaker. […]

Xmas 2011 Special Offer
We’ve reduced the prices on packs of 27, 64 & 125 StoryCubes in both Original and Medium sizes. Please visit our store to buy online. Offers end on December 14th (last posting date is 15th December). There’s also a 10% discount on bookleteer Short Run Printing in the run up to Xmas, so if […]

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 […]

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 […]

Birmingham Total Place StoryCubes
Over the years Proboscis have been commissioned to specially produce StoryCubes for events and workshops on different occasions. Last year Proboscis were commissioned by educator and organisational consultant Lesley Cramman to create a set of StoryCubes for the Birmingham Total Place Early Intervention Project, as part of the Total Place Summit in 2010. The purpose […]

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 […]
Feature Post on the Market Day Workshop StoryCubes
My third instalment of feature posts, sees a set of StoryCubes Sarah Thelwall used in her Market Day workshop. Sarah gave some great views on the StoryCubes, which can be seen below in my email interview. RP: Why did you choose to use StoryCubes in your workshop? ST: I am very keen to develop and […]