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Magazine Industry Realizing  “The Print Effect”
10 April 2017|Uncategorized
It must be “good news for print” month. As the Internet gets uglier and digital ad scandals continue, news continues to come out about print’s effectiveness in moving the metrics that matter. The positive vibe continues with “The Print Effect,”...
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Just One Word about this Week’s Free Fonts…
07 April 2017|design
Our free font Friday series continues. And this week? One word: FANCY.   Dita Sweet is a nice compromise between delicate and bold. Its unique features clearly set it apart from other fonts without completely distracting the viewer. Pair it...
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Ciao, Bella – IL Magazine Writes the Book on Visual Design
07 April 2017|design, Magazine
When does design elevate from the ordinary to the sublime?For us, it’s when the design itself is able to convey the meaning of the content without even needing words. We posted a great example of this yesterday with April’s “Water”...
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The Sketchy Birth of a Cover Design
06 April 2017|design, Magazine, Print
The mandate was clear – “No glasses of water!” That was the primary instruction from the editorial team at Popular Science to the photography team who would eventually shoot the photos for the recent issue on the global water crisis....
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Bob Love on the Value of Trust
06 April 2017|Magazine, Print
“Read like your enemies will.” That’s the massively good bit of advice from the talented brain of Bob Love, AARP’s magazine editor. Love gave the keynote address at last month’s Association Media Summit, as quoted in Folio. Love started the...
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The Ugly Truth About Internet Behavior
05 April 2017|Social Media
It’s getting ugly out there on the Internet. And it looks like it’s only going to get worse. “A new report by the Pew Research Center and Elon University’s Imagining the Internet Center suggests that technologists widely agree: The bad...
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Fake News Alert: Dial I For Irony
05 April 2017|content, News
Irony alert – from where we sit, a lot of native advertising and sponsored content is just a hair’s breadth away from fake news. In fact, the fake news uproar has just about killed off native advertising as a viable...
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Screen, Paper, Ink and the Modern College Student 
04 April 2017|Paper, Print
Do today’s university students shun paper in favor of digital devices for their studies? Not according to this global study. They grew up with digital devices as part of their everyday lives -- long after the age of rotary phones...
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National Law Journal Debuts Monthly Print Magazine
04 April 2017|Digital, Magazine, Print, Social Media
The National Law Journal (NLJ) has long been a staple of information for law professionals and legal teams. And now, they are launching a glossy print monthly, to replace the former weekly tabloid. “As part of ALM’s response to the...
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Why Food Titles are Everywhere Now
04 April 2017|Magazine, Print
Lucky Peach—the much loved and highly irreverent food magazine – is shutting down. And there goes the niche? Well, hardly. Rather, the food niche seems to be having a bit of a boom, judging by the number of titles that...
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