Category: magazines
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On The Future Of Feature Writing
Multi-chapter, multimedia, highly immersive digital features from publishers seem to be becoming quite the thing. The latest is the rather lovely ESPN Grantland story of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, which follows on from their similar feature on The Long, Strange Trip of Dock Ellis. Then there was the beautiful Pitchfork cover story on…
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Layar And Magazines
People have been trying for years to crack the idea of creating some kind of interplay between print media and screen media. Unfortunately most of the offerings that people have come up with have never acheived any kind of traction, mostly because they've been simply too, well, clunky. I remember some extremely enthusiastic people coming to…
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News+
What would a newspaper look like if it was invented today? That's the question that Bonnier have asked themselves and it's a good one. Because the answer is quite possibly not much like the current crop of digital news apps. Almost a year ago, Bonnier collaborated with BERG for a pre-iPad re-imagining of the digital…
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Cooking Dinner With The iPad
Early iPad content apps seem to have suffered from a McLuhan-esque propensity to consider a new technology through the lens of the old, and what Jakob Nielsen called a 'crushing print metaphor'. There's perhaps an inevitability to the inconsistency in usability that Nielsen described, but the iPad is a re-imagined interface, and so requires re-imagined…
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The First Digital Magazine
So, back in December the Swedish publisher Bonnier collaborated with designers BERG London to conceptualise a vision for digital magazines on touchscreen devices. They did a pretty decent job – the most compelling vision, I thought, amongst a rash of others that were around or have come out since. Well now the vision has been…
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Re-Imagining Books
"We're going to see new forms of storytelling emerge from this canvas. This is an opportunity to redefine modes of conversation between reader and content. And that's one hell of an opportunity if making content is your thing." Craig Mod Next week I'm going to an event on the future of publishing where my good…
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Mag+
Below is a conceptual video (HT to Katy for the link) created by BERG London and the (Swedish publisher) Bonnier R & D team demonstrating a potential vision for digital magazines. I really like it. I like it because it strikes an excellent balance between attempting to capture some of the unique aspects that make…
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Magazine Cover Of The Year
Every year the Magazine Publishers of America run a little award for the magazine cover of the year. These were the winners from last year. As awards go, I rather like it. Magazine covers are a consistently underated form of design IMHO, and there's real skill in combining aesthetic impact with consistency of brand image…
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Getting Wired
Day one of the UK edition of Wired. So I bought a copy. And to be honest it was pretty good. Highlights included Russell's column ("I'd like to suggest that multitasking and distraction aren't the enemy – they're what makes us human and creative – and…we should be building software tools that distract us more,…
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The Perfect Magazine
David Hepworth on magazines: "My suspicion is that if a reader could design his perfect magazine he probably wouldn't like it. The whole idea of a magazine is that it's a compromise between what you expect and what you don't, between what you like and what the other person likes, between things that confirm what…