Scout Books makes a giant stencil

By Nicole Lavelle | Published: July 26, 2010

Austin and Brent have been hard at work making a MASSIVE stenciled banner for our booth at the Renegade Craft Fair in San Francisco this weekend. They tested their design on the warehouse floor earlier. PRETTY COOL! Check out photos of the process and see photos from our whole Renegade experience below!

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Scout Books Art Market at the Renegade Craft Fair

By Nicole Lavelle | Published: July 26, 2010

San Francisco, get ready for Scout Books! We’ll be there soon.

We’re pleased to announce the first ever Scout Books Art Market, a participatory event taking place all weekend at our booth at the Renegade Craft Fair at San Francisco’s Fort Mason Pavilion. All day Saturday and Sunday, stop by our booth to meet and greet a fabulous line up of artists who will be customizing Scout Books! We’ve teamed up with Little Paper Planes to bring you the handiwork of some super skilled illustrators, designers and artists who will be creating original pieces of art directly onto the chipboard covers of Scout Books. Stop by to say hello, check out the live art-making, and get your hands on the sweet designs, all of which will be available for purchase.

Check out our full list of artists below. Get to know them a little. Drool over their work.

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Show Us Your Scout Book: Jesse Hora

By Nicole Lavelle | Published: July 22, 2010

Jesse Hora is an art director, an illustrator and an Michigan native. He filled these Scout Books with fun, funky sketches and smart illustrations. A super sweet ongoing illustration project of his is Athlete Objects, in which he creates his interpretations of 1980s and 1990s athletes based off of their names, his childhood memories, and their Wikipedia entries. Pretty fresh!

See Jesse’s whole notebook below, and get ready: he has another on the way, a collaboration with Abigail Wynne.

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Scout Books at the San Francisco Renegade Craft Fair

By Nicole Lavelle | Published: July 19, 2010

Here at Scout Books headquarters, we’re getting SUPER EXCITED about heading to the Renegade Craft Fair in San Francisco. In less than two weeks we’ll be down in the beautiful city by the bay with our perfect pocket notebooks in tow.

At the San Francisco Renegade, we’ll be in the company of some amazing crafters, artists and illustrators. In addition to our Ready Made Scout Books and the chance to place your Make Your Own order, we’ll be running fun giveaways and raffles.

Our booth at Renegade will also have the first ever Scout Book Art Market! Some of our favorite San Francisco friends will be stopping by the booth all weekend to customize Scout Books. Come by the booth on Saturday and Sunday to meet these awesome artists, illustrators and designers–and get your hands on some ORIGINAL artwork, made right on your favorite pocket notebook.

More details below!

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Meet Our Friends: Will Bryant

By Lindsay Nansel | Published: July 16, 2010

Will Bryant lives and works in Austin, TX as a freelance creative at Public School. You may remember him from a few Show Us Your Scout Books here and here. This time around we are not only featuring him but adding his Scout Book, Ultimate Reality, to our shop!

Mr. Bryant also took some time to answer a few questions for us so be sure to check out his answers and more photos of his awesome Scout Book after the jump!

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Make Your Own: Heather Wilson

By Lindsay Nansel | Published: July 14, 2010

Heather Wilson is a graphic designer, illustrator, and registered art therapist who recently graduated from the Art Institute of Portland! She created the character on her Scout Book to represent herself and judging from all of the above, she seems like a pretty awesome gal to me. Check it out.

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Make Your Own: Jeremy Dubow

By Lindsay Nansel | Published: July 12, 2010

Jeremy Dubow is a California-born artist who’s formal training includes studies at the Florence Academy of Art in Florence Italy. He 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.

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Make Your Own: Want Magazine

By Lindsay Nansel | Published: July 9, 2010

And here we have a Scout Book created by Want Magazine and distributed free of charge to all the attendees at User Experience Lisbon to celebrate Want’s premiere launch in May (Where did the time go? I’m obviously sharing this notebook a tad late). I heard from a very reliable source that these books were quite well received by all and quite the perfect size to take notes on all the lectures at the conference!

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Make Your Own: Eden Papineau

By Lindsay Nansel | Published: July 7, 2010

Eden Papineau is a graphic and web designer from Virginia Beach, VA. We had the pleasure of helping to create these distinctive Scout Books complete with Eden’s personal identity. They turned out great as you can see.

Hooray Eden! Hooray Scout Books, you’ve done it again!

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Beer. Film. Scout Books.

By Lindsay Nansel | Published: July 2, 2010

New Belgium Brewery is on tour this summer with 20 short films created by their fans to spread “beer musings and filmed enlightenment.” It’s called the Clips of Faith Beer and Film Tour with all the proceeds going towards an organization in the host city. Pretty cool, huh? Even cooler, they enlisted our notebook-making expertise to help them create special Scout Books for their beer-tasting needs.

The good folks over at New Belgium sent us some photos from the recent Madison event and it looks like they had a ton of fun. Check out the rest of the tour locations here–if you’re lucky, they might be coming to a city near you!

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