Great update from Love Letters from New Orleans, which is currently at the printing press.
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Today in Kickstarter, Monday March 18th 2013:
- Incredible image from You are (on) an island’s tour (above)
- Life Begins at Incorporation unveiled its awesome cover
- Pitchfork reviewed The Punk Singer, which just premiered at SXSW
- 9th installment in Zen Dog’s amazing pre-production vlog
- Vulfpeck, a new music project from Funklet creator Jack Stratton
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Streets of San Francisco.
American Analog is a hand-made collection of 35mm photos shot on the streets of San Francisco. Coming from game designer, maker, and self-proclaimed “super nerd” Doc Pop, this project is an unexpected throwback to a time before Instagram.
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View on KickstarterWe all scream.
This creator has a pretty simple philosophy of life: “Ice cream is my answer to everything.”
The Ice Cream Travel Guide includes recommendations for the best scoops across the globe, along with stories and recipes from the life of an ice cream obsessive.
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LA Art Book Fair starts today.
We’re at the inaugural LA Art Book Fair this week, celebrating the world of art-in-print on Kickstarter.
More than two dozen Kickstarter-funded projects are represented, encompassing everything from Paul Mpagi Sepuya’s major monograph, STUDIO WORK, to cartoonist Will Laren’s $7 zine, Slurricane #3.
In LA? Drop by MOCA’s Geffen Contemporary space and check out some printed matter in person, now through Sunday.
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View on KickstarterEat your environment.
Foraging and Feasting celebrates local foods by identifying wild edible plants and offering recipes for their enjoyment. The collaboration of a botanical illustrator and a veteran herbalist, this cookbook doubles as a field guide to the edible outdoors.
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View on KickstarterShadow theater fairytale.
This beautiful retelling of the Hansel and Gretel fairytale imagines the story through a series of laser-cut panels. Shine a light through each scene and the shadows spring to life on the wall.
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Four artists, one project.
An artist-run publishing project, Benign Kingdom showcases the work of independent comics creators. The Spring 2013 edition features four artists’ books, available individually or collected in a box set.
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View on KickstarterGently down the stream.
Tucked away in a corner of Southeastern Ohio, Raccoon Creek winds across a hundred miles of natural splendor.
Now a local community group is organizing to preserve the river for future generations, creating and publishing a map of its many secret gems to distribute throughout the state and beyond.
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View on KickstarterStarting somewhere.
Created by 24-year-old artist and writer Sam Maiden, Reboot is the first issue of a new comic-book collaboration.
Maiden describes his true love as writing and producing comics, and Reboot is his first attempt. This brave new world is our Project of the Day.
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View on KickstarterCin cin.
Chef Mauro Golmarvi has served up classic Italian fare for nearly two decades at his restaurant in the heart of Seattle. Now he’s making a cookbook to bring his famous ossobuco to your kitchen. Buon appetito!
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The positives, even if I didn’t make a lot of (any) money (yet), have been incredibly positive. Kickstarter gave me more than I ever could have hoped when I first thought of self-publishing.
—Kelly Thompson, author of The Girl Who Would Be King, breaks down the struggles and triumphs of her Kickstarter project.
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Black and white and read all over.
Kevin “KAL” Kallaugher, acclaimed editorial cartoonist for The Economist magazine, is celebrating 35 years of visual satire with a retrospective book.
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Dirty magazines.
SOILED is an architectural magazine that likes to get dirty.
Each issue breaks open issues of public space and urban design to share messy stories about the world we’ve built for ourselves. The team is currently funding its next issue, Windowscrapers — an exploration of surveillance, voyeurism, and privacy from an architect’s point of view.
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Best practices for a Kickstarter-funded journalistic endeavor →
Advice by/for journalism project creators via the Columbia Journalism Review.
