The Viral Power of the Magazine Cover
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Something interesting is happening to magazine covers. Rather than facing extinction like so many predicted with the dawn of digital media, covers are finding new audiences and viral love. Catherin Taibi in the Huffington Post notes that digital – in...
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The Magical and the Not-so in Adobe CC 2015 Release
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Getty Images and other stock photo suppliers are about to get a run for their money as Adobe Creative Cloud releases Adobe Stock Marketplace in its latest update. “Our vision for Creative Cloud has always included the creation of a...
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Apple Changes Typeface Again and the World Gasps
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The letters were designed to be optimized for the Apple Watch's small screen. Has Apple lost it in the font design department? According to some design fans at WWDC this week, you can forget the Apple news app or the...
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Lonely Plant and Bloomberg Pursuits Get Fresh
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Print has been called “the secret weapon of luxury retailers,” and two titles launches this season bear witness to this idea. For Bloomberg, the redesigned Bloomberg Pursuits takes a fresh look at an often stale approach to the luxury reader....
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How a Big Cover Concept Drives Sales
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The pressure to create high-impact cover concepts to boost newsstand sales has never been higher, suggests Bill Mickey in Folio:. In this time of challenging sales figures, Mickey notes “[T]here are still titles that perform well at retail and The...
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The Beauty of the Booklet – Some Design Inspiration
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“My shop is bustling. The presses are rolling, the folders are humming and the saddle stitcher is doing its dance. We are up to our ears in books, catalogs and magazines and it has me dreaming of gorgeous layouts,” writes...
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For This Publisher Print is Not Dead, It’s Thrilling
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You’re in the newsstand browsing for a title, something that truly interests you and speaks to your heart and soul. Yet you hesitate even picking it up in case someone might see. Is it the guilty pleasure of Hollywood gossip...
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Wish We Were There: What Fonts Did for This Travel Mag
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Sugar sand beaches, palm trees with the requisite hammock swinging between them, adorable fruit drinks served under a tiki-thatched swim-up bar – a lot of travel journalism leaves us longing for something more, something we haven’t seen before. Fortunately for...
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MAFH Prints a Gorgeous Magazine
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When the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH) realized their monthly membership magazine wasn’t engaging its readers, they called in Austin design firm Pentagram for a reboot. The result is h Magazine, a stunning title that builds its editorial content...
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Meet Unica, the Urban Legend of Fonts
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It was a perfect example of the right thing at the wrong time. Back in the ‘70s the Swiss type foundry that created Helvetica set about making a follow-up font that would translate to phototypesetting and fix some of Helvetica’s...
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