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Title: Blazer Pantry
Creator: Valdosta State University
Date: November 4, 2010
Description: A ribbon cutting ceremony for Blazer Pantry Project.
Source: Valdosta State University Archives and Special Collections. Digital image from University Relations, Creative Design, 1998-2012.
Subject: Women college students; African American college students; Students, Black;
Identifier: dr2012-ua06-06-09_2010_Blazer-Pantry_img_0727
Format: image/jpeg
Girls Can Tell is a small screen printing shop in Philadelphia. Their Etsy shop is chock-full of useful items, including these Scout Books illustrated with informative and beautiful diagrams by Sara Selepouchin. I think my favorite is the brain. I like that idea–perfect for a pocket notebook! I only wish I could write directly into my brain. The quest for more memory continues.
Halle Cisco is a Portland-based graphic designer, illustrator and educator. She created this fantastic Scout Book full of illustrations of random folks. One of them is clutching a fish. Another wields a knife and a radish. One guy is singing karaoke with his eyes closed. Random.
Fifteen random folks sit opposite lined pages for note taking. These folks are just begging to be colored in and have their stories written!
These books are available on our site.
These Scout Books are HOT!
Mt. Hood Community College’s Integrated Media Program recently had it’s yearly Portfolio Show featuring the work of 18 graphic design students and 12 digital photography students of the class of 2010. They handed these Scout Books out to more than 500 attendees of the show and encouraged them all to vote on their favorite portfolio. The book was also used to take notes on each participant and served as a great take-away.
Luke Ramsey is awesome. He creates beautiful, intricate pieces of artwork that include zines, murals, paintings and prints. He also runs Islands Fold, an independent publisher and artist residency in B.C., Canada.
We ran into Luke last summer at the Portland Zine Symposium, and saw him sketching in a Scout Book! Quickly gave him another, and within weeks he had filled it up and sent us images. At long last, here is what the fantastic Luke Ramsey did with the 32 grid pages of a Scout Book.
Awesome! Thanks, Luke.
Jeremy Dubow currently has a solo exhibit of his 11 x 14 oil on mylar paintings titled, Jeremy Dubow: Portraits at Hiromi Ogawa Architects Portland, OR location which will be open through July by appointment. The exhibit consists of 27 portraits each numbered according to the chronological order in which they were painted. Three of these paintings were selected and produced into Scout Books by Beadle Design. Kristin Beadle was so kind as to send us some great photos from the exhibit opening night reception and some great closeups of the Scout Books as well.
Jeremy Dubow is a former Californian, born in San Francisco with his formal education including studies at the Florence Academy of Art in Florence Italy. His love for classical art and contemporary realism are at the heart of his work and quite apparent in this current exhibit. This three-hour head study series is Dubow’s first as a meditation on the form and essence of the subject with an emphasis on decisive brush strokes.
If we didn't already live in Portland, we're positive these Travel Portland Scout Books would make us want to visit. The talented Amy Ruppel created this two-toned illustrative representation of our fair city: big deer statues, Mt. Hood, evergreen trees galore.
Lovely.
The perfect Scout Book for the first post of the New Year! Astro Studios created these books to be sent out to their clients, colleagues and fans in order to promote a more creative 2011! Besides the great cover design comprised of sketches and doodles from Astros talented designers, these Scout Books are fully custom inside with a dot grid interior – a perfect unobtrusive guide for any sketcher. Packaged together with pencils and a note, Astro Studios supplied a “stylish place to sketch [ideas]… and start feeling better about the more prolific you.”
Mia Christopher sent us three Scout Books brimming with juicy, colorful stuff. She brightened our week, and we hope that checking out this series of expertly experimental illustration has brightened yours. This Scout Book is the third in a series of three; be sure to see the first and second.
Itching to own Mia's work for yourself? Find it online at Arrow to Arrow, Renegade Handmade, and at Little Paper Planes. There are some original paintings in there that I'm eyeing...
Thank you to Mia for sharing the insides of her Scout Books with us!
“Araby” and Other Stories by James Joyce
Illustrated by Lizzy Stewart
Available now in the Scout Books Bookstore:
Springing from the mind of one of the most well-known authors of all time, Edgar Allan Poe’s Tales of Terror collects five of the writer’s finest stories in three pocket-sized volumes.
Includes:
“The Fall of the House of Usher” illustrated by Tom Neely
“William Wilson” illustrated by Levon Jihanian
“The Tell-Tale Heart” and Other Stories illustrated by Malachi Ward
Available now in the Scout Books Bookstore:
Janet and Trisha Snyder are Pawling Print Studio. The pair of sisters create home and paper goods featuring their handcrafted patterns. These Scout Books are just one of their many gorgeous goods! Go see for yourself!
Emily Martin, aka The Black Apple, crafted such a stellar series of Scout Books, they sold out! We were happy to print her another batch to get out to her customers.
From the creator of 33 Bottles of Beer and 33 Bottles of Wine comes 33 Cups of Coffee. And none too soon as the Winter months are in full swing! Nothing comes close to a piping hot cup of coffee when it's chilly out.
In true 33 Books fashion, this journal comes complete with a flavor wheel, demystifier, and of course, a little something in the ink! That’s right, a few drops of coffee were added to the ink during the printing of this book.
So head over to your favorite coffee shop or brew some up at home and start your coffee-tasting journey with 33 Cups of Coffee in hand!
Stitch Design Co. created these charming Scout Books as promotional tools for Pearl, a collection of Lexington, KY's finest wedding professionals. When managing plans and jotting down wedding inspiration, it only makes sense to have a Scout Book. See Pearl's little notebooks in action and the cute striped pencils they were paired with on the Stitch blog. Very cute.
Formerly known as Polychrome San Francisco, Standard Studio has launched its new identity and website, and included in the new launch is this fantastic Scout Book.
Standard is a small firm whose members share a common point of view and a common inspiration in utilitarian design. This Scout Book is the culmination of all these things. It was inspired by an old WWII canvas bag with the words "bag for inserting dies and No. 4 grommets" on the front. Standard loved the idea of applying the same approach to their books, thus the copy on their Scout Book. The word is that the books have already been a big hit.
Freshly baked dark chocolate and butter vanilla cupcakes, decorated with Swiss Meringue Salted Caramel (caramel a la fleur de sel) Buttercream at 7:00 am - which is when I finished! I had picked the last of the rosebuds in our garden - just enough to decorate over a dozen for entry in two competitions, Amateur Taste & Amateur Design. I didn't win but it was so much fun!
When Will Bryant and Mark Menjivar join forces, terrific things happen. Terrific chipboard things, to be specific.
Will and Mark worked together to create this identity system for the youth advocacy arm of Texas RioGrande Legal Aid (TRLA). Mark works with TRLA to offer aid to youth experiencing homelessness. He got in touch with Will to help him create a series of print items that could be at once beautiful, useful and durable. From that collaboration came three print pieces: a business card, a pocket postcard, and a Scout Book with custom-printed interiors that acts as a Youth Rights Booklet. Will also did the lettering and design for the snazzy TRLA Youth website. Chipboard internet? We’re into it.
In addition to being a chance to create a set of fun printed pieces, Will looks at this collaboration as an opportunity to help out: ”Enabling youth [with] the opportunity to better their circumstances is huge! Most of the kids come from rough backgrounds, so having access to this knowledge empowers them and provides hope for the future,” he told us. “It’s a blessing to be involved with a project that does this.”
Lovely Sweet William is the product of two sisters, one from New Zealand and one from Australia, who, despite the distance, still make the effort to bring their love of all things handmade together. Being 100% recycled, Scout Books fit in perfectly with their credo. They also have some really beautiful art prints and the most adorable mini dolls that live in matchbox houses! So cute.