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my lulu book arrived. lulu.com is an online publishing service, where you can make actual books and print them and get them delivered. right into your hands. there are a few other services like them but lulu seemed easiest and cheapest.
i made a photobook of the pictures i took in the philippines. full color full bleed, 121 pages, perfect bound, 9×7 paperback cover. it cost me around 22 dollars, plus another 8ish for shipping. it’s a real unbelievable price – i needed to try it so that if it came out good, i would probably use lulu more in the future for other projects. and it did indeed come out good. not GREAT, but good. the paper stock is nothing special, it’s kinkosesque(kinkosian?) in quality, print is probably the same too – laser color or something like that. not hating, it gets the job done, and for the price, it’s what i would expect. color reproduction is vibrant – most times a little too vibrant, the colors get pumped up hard with my style of saturated images. i didn’t get to make a custom cover(i laid the book out in indesign; there’s a publishing tool online you can use but of course full control is much better)but it’s a little bit thicker and has a gloss on it to make it all fancy. lulu lets you take off their logo watermark on the spine, so it can look as legit as you want it.
all in all, a great service for the price. i plan on making a few more photobooks. samples of my print here, here, here, here, and here.
the book turned out pretty nice. :)
cin
19 Oct 08 at 5:25
Looks good…It would be dope with a picture on the cover though…Bring it by the next time we session or at The Creep Up. I have been looking at Lulu for awhile but wasn’t sure how their output would look.
Spingineer
20 Oct 08 at 10:31
hey man,
good find!
i been lookin for a way to get my work published like that!
ha!
make one of your hawaii vacay!
btw, picked up in between from in4mation….anything new?
mBryson
22 Oct 08 at 12:59
Interesting. I’ve been thinking about doing something like this for a while for my portfolio.
With that price, I may as well try.
beefknux
23 Oct 08 at 7:53
yo bryson, good look at the in4 store. i’ve been makin a few new blends which i’m saving up for a new mixtape for 2009. keep on the lookout, for sure in4 will be the spot to cop it.
siik
24 Oct 08 at 9:00
woo~
nice picz!
nice book!haha~
ash
25 Oct 08 at 11:03
Heya! Great photobook! I’m thinking of putting one together as well. What’s your opinion of the colour fidelity of the print? Would you tone down the saturation if you were to make a 2nd book?
Ben
6 Nov 08 at 7:57