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Drake and the Million Dollar Pop
23 August 2017|Magazine, Print
“We’re in a weird time. Life is almost this ongoing forum. People can get so lost in these words displayed on the screen.” Those words are spoken by Canadian rapper Drake as part of the “Drake – Obey Your Thirst”...
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Discovering Truth in the Magazine Racks
23 August 2017|Magazine, Print
Huh. It’s happening just like we thought it might. Late last year, I noted that consumers about had it with the unreliability of the “news” they found on digital and the never-ending rabbit hole of the non-stop news feed. They...
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“Fake News” is a Boon to WSJ Magazine
22 August 2017|News
This country’s current sociopolitical climate is having an unexpected and welcome effect on the newspaper magazine industry.According to Chantal Fernandez in Business of Fashion, it’s “proven to be a subscription boon for many of the nation’s largest newspapers, including the...
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Have Publishers Really Gone “Boutique”?
22 August 2017|Magazine, Print
Niche titles – some look at them and see “trend,” a current title-du-jour that hopes to engage a passing fancy or current rage. Others look at this increasingly popular style of the magazine and see an important part of the...
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This Week, a Free transmogrified Font
18 August 2017|design
Who doesn’t love a great transmogrification? Especially when it results in a beautiful new typeface. Newslab was created by combining three typefaces — Andes, Sánchez and Roble – into one stunning new iteration. Whether in black, extra-bold, light or thin,...
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Some Collectors are Paying Serious Bucks for Back Issues of Print Magazines
18 August 2017|Magazine, Print
An eBay listing for "Vogue"'s July 1998 issue, featuring Claire Danes. Photo: Screenshot Before you recycle those old stacks of fashion mags in your mom’s attic, you might want to check eBay. According to Tyler McCall in Fashionista, they could...
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Indie Mag Printed Pages Earns it Spot in the Niche Market
17 August 2017|Magazine, Print
Finding stuff they like and sharing it; that’s the basic premise behind the site It’s Nice That. Favorite books, happy animations and an upbeat look at tech advances adorn the current home page (no political angst or social drama, which...
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How’s Your Color Wardrobe? Pantone’s Fashion Color Report is In
17 August 2017|design
Care for a little Grenadine with your Tawny Port woolies? It’s that time of year when the Pantone Color Institute evaluates the colors on display from top designers during New York Fashion Week. According to Leatrice Eiseman of the Pantone...
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Why “Meaningfully Different” is the New Brand Goal
16 August 2017|Magazine, Print
If there’s one thing we are learning this year, it’s how fragile our brands really are. In this low-barrier world we live in, it’s incredibly easy to spread disinformation, and many brands are just one bad ad placement away from...
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Outside the Echo Chamber; What They’re Really Saying About Print
15 August 2017|Magazine, Print
In any industry, we tend to spend a lot of time in our own world – big or little as it may be. We read a lot of opinions from industry experts, published in industry journals, full of industry-based studies....
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