HBR, What’s the Big Idea?
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Is the continuing wave of digital advancement poised to cause more disruption for publishers? Not from where Josh Macht sits. The executive VP of the Harvard Business Review recently spoke to John Watkins about the unique opportunities facing print publishers...
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Why Differentiation is Critical during the War on Media
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There is a difference between “media” and journalism; in this age of brands as media publishers, not all operate under journalistic principles. Throw native advertising into the mix – where real journalism is cozied up with sponsored content – and...
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What Paper Means to Those Who Design For It
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Last week we wrote about the way print irrevocably altered the way humankind remembers its collecting knowledge. And now, we look at some thoughts on why the choice of paper continues to have importance in our digital age. In The...
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New Launches are Up By How Much Now?
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One of the challenges in the magazine industry is parsing the numbers. Depending on the source, (MPA, Min, PPA, etc.) the stories can vary pretty dramatically. So when we saw this figure cross our desk, we had to take a...
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If Typefaces were Race Cars
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“Some time ago I read an article by the excellent Indra Kupferschmid with a title that drew a bold parallel between Novarese and Ferrari, when the digital version of Forma was launched,” writes Luciana Perondi in Foundry’s blog. “For those...
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Let’s Get Medieval with this Week’s Free Font
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Here’s another great font, this week from the folks at The Font Squirrel. According to their site, “Junicode font is designed to meet the needs of medieval scholars; however, it has a large enough character set to be useful to...
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Print and the Store of Human Knowledge
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For the compulsive list makers like us in the crowd, you know the power of putting words on paper. Jotting that task down takes it out of our active brain space, freeing our gray matter up to focus on the...
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Monocle Celebrates the Big 10
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In the world of magazines, Monocle is a bit of an anomaly. Since its launch in 2006, founder and publisher Tyler Brûlé has firmly pushed back against social media. At the same time, he’s grown the now-iconic brand into a...
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The Bitter Truth from an Ad Tech Developer
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When programmatic advertising hit the mainstream, we called it a “brave new world” for players on all sides. As it turns out, the dystopian reference was valid. “Programmatic has been extolled for its efficiency, but for the latest in our...
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