Publishing’s Not Dead; it’s Just Hung Over
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It was 2010, and Steve Jobs famously launched the iPad and ushered in what many expected to be the age of the digital magazine. The publishing industry, still reeling from the economic downturn, scrambled to engage a digital audience and...
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What Led This Former Intern to Launch a Print Mag
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For many of us, the current social questions and economic issues play themselves out incessantly in digital media. And it’s pretty easy to see where someone falls, based on their comments or the kind of reporting they are doing. One...
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Keeping it Simple with This Week’s Free Fonts
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There’s a lot going on in the world right now, so this week we are keeping it simple. Just one free font, but it sure is a beauty. Simplifica by Luxembourg artist Kaiwa is a simple and clear, slightly condensed sans-serif...
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The Throw Back Magazine for Doomsday Preppers
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Well, this is cheery. “If you were to browse a British newsstand in the early 1980s, you might have discovered a rather unusual magazine,” writes Chris Baraniuk the BBC.. “Called Protect & Survive Monthly or ‘PSM’, it aimed to teach...
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Salty at Heart Launches in Print; Mermaids Everywhere Rejoice
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Salty at Heart’s founder Kirstin Thompson felt something was lacking in the women’s magazine niche. So she set about filling it – with a magazine dedicated to and inspired by women, adventure and the sea. “When Kirstin saw a void...
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Watch Site Hodinkee to Publish a Print Magazine
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It’s been a cult hit since it launched as a blog in 2008. Now Hodinkee has announced it will publish a glossy print magazine, according to Victoria Berezhna writing in Business of Fashion. “Our twin goals for the Hodinkee Magazine...
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Social Ads Not Really Driving Conversions
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For the most part, those social ads that brands are paying for on social media aren’t moving the needle on sales revenue. A recent survey of U.S. internet users found that Snapchat and Twitter, in particular, had single digit response...
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How to Protect a Brand from Social Media Flare-ups
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When it comes to the food niche, brand preference is weakening. “One of the big issues facing brands today is finding advertising context that will affirm their credibility in the eyes of the consumer instead of damaging it, whilst also...
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Print Dead? Piffle.
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Shaun Donnelly, the London-based publisher behind the design lifestyle publication Manimalist, is one of us. “Try to imagine picking up a fresh print magazine; feeling the weight, quickly flicking your fingers through the pages and prising them open so you...
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Fridays Just Wouldn’t Be Fridays without Free Fonts
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“Type is a beautiful group of letters – not a group of beautiful letters.” The above quote from Matthew Carter reminds us that truly inspired font design starts with cohesion…how each letter will work together to form a gorgeous whole....
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