Rabona Magazine: Hello Beautiful 
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When a magazine can take a sport and turn it into high art, you know you have something worth looking at. PaulOV2 introduces us to Rabona, and it stuns. “Rabona is a celebration of great football journalism, iconic photography and...
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“Your Magazine is NOT Your Product”
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[responsive][/responsive]Four years ago, Makeshift magazine started as a Kickstarter-backed project, and has morphed into a successful, self-described “functioning media company.” Now founder Steve Daniels has some sage advice in “How to start a magazine: Lessons from four years in print.”...
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Prof to Students: Leave the Laptop in the Bag
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[responsive][/responsive]Look inside any college classroom in America and you'll see not a sea of eager faces looking up at you, but a shield of laptop backs and the tops of heads bent over their keyboards. But not every head hidden...
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Tide Turning for Print Ads?
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[responsive][/responsive]In an industry where huge agencies direct massive amounts of advertising spend, one man or woman’s opinion can have dramatic implications. So we were pleasantly surprised to read this comment from Martin Sorrell, head at media-buying behemoth WWP. “There is...
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April USPS Rate Hike Less Likely?
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Most of us in the direct mail and catalog industries have been bracing ourselves for expected April rate hikes from the USPS. Just how much those hikes might be was the main mystery, with the PRC telling the USPS to...
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Some Common Sense on Commas
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[responsive][/responsive]“A lot of people are taught that a comma goes anywhere you want to indicate a pause. On the surface, that system appears to work out fine. Commas often do just that. But not always,” writes editor June Casagrande in...
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Plenty of Specialty Titles Debuted in March
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The trend toward niche and specialty magazines continued last month, with a fantastic array of new titles launching that cater to highly specific audiences. “Niche distinctiveness is the only description applicable to the new launches for March,” writes Samir “Mr....
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Traveler Puts on Weight in all the Right Places
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[responsive][/responsive]There’s nothing like that unexpected upgrade to first class. Room to breathe, a little space to call your own, and the prospect of a relaxing and uninterrupted flight. The publisher of Condé Nast Traveler gets that, and has used the...
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The More Things Change…
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“Humans are incredible,” writes Sacks (or as we know him around here, BoSacks) for Folio:. “We have such a long history of solving problems and creating solutions, not only for our survival, but for the easing of everyday life,” he continues....
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A Brief History of Typography, via Print
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[responsive][/responsive]Yesterday we told you about Print magazine’s 75th anniversary issue; today we expand on one of the articles, The History of Typography in Print Magazine by Paul Shaw.According to Shaw, “Print has been chronicling graphic design for 75 years, yet...
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