Into the Woods with this Week’s Free Fonts
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We are getting all woodsy and earthy this week with our free font choices, perfect for getting ready for Earth Day celebrations later next month.First is The Woodlands, another free brush script from Jeremy Vessey.  This font is a little more...
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Oops, We Saw Your Passwords
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Did you know that Facebook employees could, up until recently, read user passwords on millions of accounts? According to a Bloomberg News item in AdAge, a security review in January revealed that passwords were stored in a format that made...
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GQ’s New Role in the Era of the Niche Lifestyle Title
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To hear Will Welch tell it, the age of the general interest, mass-market title is gone. In its place is the age of niche. Welch spoke to Samir “Mr. Magazine” Husni about his vision for the GQ brand under his...
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Meredith Aims for the Pet Market with Happy Paws
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Well, this is just adorable. Meredith Corp., the publishers behind the wildly successful Magnolia Journal that has taken over the lifestyle market, is now setting its sights on pet owners. According to Greg Dool in Folio:, the company’s latest launch...
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Two Magazines, One Brand – a Look at 1843
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The Economist is one of the fixtures in the magazine industry; they’ve been around in one format or another since 1843. So it was fitting that they named their spin-off title 1843 when it launched in 2016. At the time,...
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PuIizzi to Print Panners: Bite Your Tongue
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“Bite your tongue.” That’s the basic reply from Content Marketing Institute’s Joe Pulizzi when people tell him that print magazines are irrelevant. “No content distribution type ever really dies,” Pulizzi wrote in LinkedIn last week. “It only changes. Vinyl albums...
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Hit the Road to Adventure with our Free Friday Fonts
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However you use these two fonts, you’ll bring a fresh spirit of high adventure to your design.First up is Westfalia. This gorgeous hand-painted brush font from the design shop Rambler Creative lends a hand-drawn feel that’s just unstructured enough to...
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Fresh Data on Direct Mail to Help Make the Sale
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As print’s place in the multi-channel marketing strategy evolves, so do the questions our sales teams and our customers have. Earlier this week I shared my thoughts on D. Eadward Tree’s excellent post “8 Ways Media Sales Reps Can Increase...
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When It’s Time to Stop Scrolling
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“Is there a more precious commodity than time?” asks Jacqueline Handman writing in Tiny Buddha. “It’s the currency of life; the most basic finite resource, and we have a responsibility to spend it wisely. It’s up to us each individually...
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If a Like is So Valuable, Why are They So Cheap?
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There’s a video making the rounds that making a lot of online marketers and the brands who hire them uncomfortable. “Like,” posted by Field of Vision, is an 8-minute long video with a powerful message for marketers (see below). Directed...
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