June 2017 - Freeport Press

30 June 201709 November 2021|design

Inspired by playbills and advertisements of 1800s, Abraham Lincoln font by Frances MacLeod is a humanist display face font with sturdy serifs. Tall skinny, and honest, you can download it at Lost Type.This week’s second font is Serrific, an absolutely terrific...

The Revolutionary Visualization of Data

30 June 201730 June 2017|design

Data – its future isn’t in volume, infallibility and predictive. The next wave of data intelligence, according to information designer Giorgia Lupi, will be smaller, imperfect and serendipitous. And it will be humanized for our understanding through visual design....

A Fresh Look at the Old Paid Vs. Free Magazine Debate

29 June 201710 November 2021|Magazine, Print

Is giving away your magazine really the end of the world?The mysterious D. Eadward Tree claims to have the most ridiculously low-priced subscription offer out there today. He ran across an ad for a yearly subscription to Entrepreneur magazine for...

Hearst Exec on Great Ideas in an Age of Disruption

29 June 201729 June 2017|Magazine, Print

For the magazine publishing giant, print was and still is the foundation of their company and they’ve never felt the need to apologize for that. “Great ideas do get funded.” That guiding truth has helped Michael Clinton, publishing director for...

From Web to Print: Two Titles that Made the Leap

27 June 201709 November 2021|Magazine, Print

We have to ask…does the staff at In The Moment get stressed out at deadline time? The magazine, a newly launched title from Immediate Media Co, promises to help women “make the most of every day with mindfulness, creativity and...

CMI’s Joe Pulizzi on Why Mixing Your Media Could Be a Terrible Idea

26 June 201726 June 2017|Marketing

Be everywhere – seems for most marketers the game these days is to cover as many media channels as possible. Joe Pulizzi of the Content Marketing Institute relates a recent conversation he had with an Australian marketer who was taking...

Is This the Best Printed Content Marketing Ever?

26 June 201709 November 2021|Magazine, Marketing, Print

When luxury automotive brand Audi set out to create a powerful content marketing strategy, they did it in a big way. According to Tasneem Mahbub in Print Power, they knew they wanted to publish truly innovative and meaningful branded content...

Legibility and Versatility in this Week’s Free Fonts

23 June 201709 November 2021|design

Lately, we’ve been sharing some amazing fonts that look great in graphic design, especially posters, covers and large works. This Friday, we’ve got two more free fonts for you, perfect for the editorial side of your design game.Created mainly for...

Do Magazine Publishers Have an Inferiority Complex?

21 June 201710 November 2021|Magazine

“This is not a pipe.”Peter Houston begins his insightful article in The Media Briefing calling to mind Rene Magritte’s famous painting of a pipe.“Magritte’s point is it’s not a pipe, it’s a representation of a pipe,” Houston explains. “He set...

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