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Smart thinking is the key to a stylish press
"Don't write off newspapers, says Tyler Brûlé, founder of 'Wallpaper' and 'Monocle'. Titles from Italy to Japan have embraced modern design to remain essential reading"
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"I am pleased to agree that this redesign feels like a great step forward for BusinessWeek, and I'm almost certain that, when the next redesign happens, I will remember what it's previous incarnation felt and looked like."
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"The oldest, most widely-read fine arts magazine in the world."
New at Pentagram: TIME Magazine
"Today, TIME launches the first issue of a major redesign developed by Pentagram’s Luke Hayman with TIME managing editor Richard Stengel and art director Arthur Hochstein."
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"Rip out all of the faces from the Skymall Catalog. You will see from all of their smiling faces that they are pleased with their liberation. The images can then be used to create data visualizations of Skymall demographics."
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What would radical transparency mean for Wired? (Part 2)
"Some of these are based on my experience in open-sourcing my book research on this site, which worked great. Why not apply the same lessons to a magazine?"
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JPG Is An Elegant Publishing 2.0 Play
"Magazine, website, community. If only Time Warner had figured out this simple formula, they might not have Time Inc. on the block."
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Up Periscope: YouTube as the raw feed of contemporary culture
"There are too many things out there, moving too quickly, and too many things in here, colliding too often, for a single editorial perspective to serve. As usual, the middle falls out. What I want is key word notice plus raw feed follow up."
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MySpace Should Let Users Create Their Own Magazines
"MySpace could sell advertisers into an ad page pool and then let the USERS choose which ads to put in their publications. Such user placement would be a great implied endorsement to friends who read each other’s custom publications."
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"Because our modern world has made designers of us all (ready or not), Before & After is dedicated to making graphic design understandable, useful and even fun for everyone. "
Chicago Tribune comes out with their big list again. Lots of old reliables (Economist is number 1, Wired is number 3) and a bunch you've never heard of (VegNews).
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The Road to Hell: Now Paved with Innovation?
Michael Beirut on "the brave new world of spec work."
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We're All Stellar Designers, Now
"Put it this way: if one of the primary tasks of the design press is to seek out interesting work to feature in its editorial pages, then it’s hard to imagine much advertising aimed at designers ever being featured. It’s just not good enough."
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Tons of FREE E-Magazines for download
Chernobyl. Causes and consequences.
A great print ad for a special National Geographic issue on Chernobyl.
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"The rules are simple. The illustration is 4.4 inches high by 6.875 inches wide; it has to include the five events, the dates of the week, and the words "High Priority;" and it can only use two colors, red and black."
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"This post, however, is about how clever creatives translate different aspects of print media into advertising metaphors. How do most people see a magazine? It has color, it comes in a certain size and it is flat."
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On the New York Magazine Blog Article
Terry Heaton: "This otherwise excellent piece of work begins with the assumption that the purpose of getting into blogging is to reach the largest audience possible and monetize that audience through advertising."
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A look at the New Yorker and its design consistency.
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Seedmagazine.com - Lookin' Good
How Movable Type was implemented as the content management system for Seed Magazine's new website.
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Wired to Open Gadget Store in NYC
"The purpose of the store would be to give shoppers a chance to see the latest technology and gadgets up close."
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"This week, an Esquire editor invited Wikipedia users to edit an article that will appear in the magazine. Wikipedia users reacted strongly, with over 500 edits to WP:ITAAW before the article was frozen."
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Why Google's Print Ad Experiment is a Really Big Freakin' Deal
"Google gets to know response rate, all in one place; they can even (ready for this?) charge based on it."
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"The all-Target New Yorker is the product of more nakedly mercenary world where advertisers no longer need conceal their aims."
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Scans of the ads in the New Yorker issue that Target completely bought out
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Business Week's cover: the kiss of death
A look back at Business Week covers over the past thirty years and the havoc they cause.
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This year's finalists are a mix of newcomers, new discoveries and veterans that have learned some new tricks.
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Magazines Find Ways to Include Unconventional Elements in Deals With Marketers
"So just as the TV networks seek to entice marketers with sales packages that go beyond running 30-second spots. . . publishers are also developing elaborate offers that involve more than just running ad pages or advertorial sections in their magazines."
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Inside TV markets itself as a "TV Guide for women."
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The Deadest Party That Ever Was
Defamer: "A reader reports from what truly may have been the Most Celebrity-Starved Hollywood Party of All Time, last night’s launch party for Inside TV magazine at White Lotus"
Britney Spears: "Do you, Us Weekly, In Touch, Star and other desperate magazines want employees who are honest, or those who are liars? "
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"Sigla magazine was launched in March 2004 as an online magazine that isn’t singularly about arts or politics, photography or creative writing; it’s about all of those things - and lots of other stuff as well."
Folio profile's the ever-expanding Vice empire
Covers of Time and Newsweek are amazingly similar amazingly often
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What's going on with AD? . . . . I ask myself this very question every day
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Harper's Index for September 2004
"Minimum number of Americans who registered to vote at strip clubs since May : 4,000"
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I like free stuff
The Nation magazine up 71% since Bush got in office
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