Go On, Make Something Beautiful
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When the world looks strange and weird, we can choose to look at things a bit differently, looking for beauty and grace. That’s why we love this week’s free fonts. First is Visually, a creative and casually gorgeous font from...
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Indie Publishers Rally around their Booksellers
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When life gets turned on its head, we face our fears and adapt the best we can. And, in our better moments, we reach out to do what we can to help others. So it is in the indie publishing...
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Serious Office Envy in Age of Remote Working
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The working world is scrambling to set up serviceable workspaces from home, repurposing corners of the kitchen table, sharing coffee table space with roommates (or cats), taking over the breakfast bar. The lucky ones have home office space already, or...
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Real Estate Title Hits the Fabulous Forties
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When RISMedia created the National Relocation & Real Estate Magazine in 1985, it aimed to connect and educate industry pros in the relocation niche. “For a bargain $2.25, National Relocation & Real Estate, then a quarterly periodical, gave our readers...
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A Perfect Pairing for Food & Wine from Meredith
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Need more proof that magazine publishers are once again investing in the lean-back experience of magazines? Look no further. “As many magazine publishers continue to look for ways to cut costs by scaling back frequency, thinning their books, and reducing...
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Two Awesome Free Fonts with Pretty Weird Names
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These fonts are terrific … even if their names have us a little confused. First up is Baksoda from the folks at Wacaksara Co in Indonesia. Use this creative and modern hand-lettered calligraphy font to design greeting cards, wedding invitations,...
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The Perfection of the Magazine Experience Remains
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Magazines? Perfect. The magazine industry? Hmmm, not so much. That’s the opinion from Cable Neuhaus, aka The Modern Magazinist, a figure at FOLIO: since 2015. Back then, he launched his column with a plea: “Those of us who still obsess...
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The Secret Life of Your Mailbox
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Back in the ‘70s it used to be called “junk mail” – the reams of unsolicited paper in your mailbox, sent by well-meaning but data-limited businesses trying to cover a broad swath. Never mind that yours was a vegetarian household;...
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Heck Yes We Want Paper in the Office
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Productivity apps, voice memos, PDF readers, Slack, Trello, MS Teams, IM … all these are seemingly indispensable to life in the office as we know it. Yet a new survey shows that workers turn back to basics when they need...
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Publishers Investing in the Sought After Lean Back Experience of Magazines
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Higher quality paper… larger trim sizes… more ambitious long-form content… creative partnerships with important events… higher prices… These are just some of the hallmarks of the modern consumer magazine, geared less toward the general public and more toward a passionate...
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