(Climate) Change in the Magazine Industry
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Photo: Rishabh Malik/courtesy Atmos “We want everyone to be collaborating on this and speaking about it.” The “it” is climate change, and the speaker is Jake Sargent, fashion brand head turned publisher of Atmos magazine. As Adele Peters explains in...
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The Ad-Free Magazine Renaissance Continues
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Magazines and ads … the two go together like peas in a pod, and the ad-funded model has been a staple of the magazine industry for decades. Yet with the drop in print ad budgets over the past 10 years,...
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Kind of a Boy Meets Girl Thing for This Week’s Free Fonts
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It’s only April, but we are feeling a summer vibe this Friday with our free fonts. First we have Summer Hearts, an all-caps brush typeface from the prolific team at Hustle Supply. Unlike some of the brush scripts we’ve seen,...
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Playing Favorites … The Dangerous Game FB’s Been Playing with Our Data
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Let’s start this post with a clarifying statement – I completely support the right of any company to collect and use its customer data as agreed to in the terms of service. Data-driven business insights are the backbone of the...
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Publishers Slammed by Latest Google Update
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Traditional publishers are feeling a chill from Google since the middle of last month, according to D. Eadward Tree in Publishing Executive. “Google’s long love affair with traditional, respected publishers may have come to an abrupt end last month,” Tree...
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Why Print Will Always Have a Place
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M. DYKSTRA / SHUTTERSTOCK / THE ATLANTIC “A screen is many things all at once or in quick succession: The New York Times, Netflix, an auction house, a video of last summer’s vacation, a box of recipes, a text from...
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Netflix Launches a Print Mag to Go After Hollywood Gold
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They started in physical media – as a DVD-by-mail company – then evolved to become a massive online streaming service and, most recently, media content producer. Now, Netflix is looking to physical media again as they attempt to earn kudos...
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Print’s Resurgence … Blip or Renaissance?
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While we’ve been rolling our eyes (hard) for a few years now whenever anyone utters the “print is dead” saw, we know we’ve been ahead of the curve understanding print’s future. Now, more support that the digital bubble has burst,...
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Readability and Great Style – the Free Font Holy Grail
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#DesignerProbs: Trying to give your work a unique edge while playing it safe with readability. Now you don’t have to choose between delivery and design. This week’s Free Friday fonts pack a lot of personality without compromising their clean-cut look....
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The Loss of Memorabilia in the Digital Age
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Does anyone collect old emails? That’s the question Peter Funt asks in the New York Times, as he writes about the rapid disappearance of our physical mementos – everything from playbills to baseball tickets to shoe boxes full of photos....
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