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The Moral of This Story — Free Fonts are Good
22 June 2018|design
We don’t mean to be didactic – or maybe we do. The moral of the story is that this week’s free fonts are a great addition to any designer’s tool kit. First off is Modum by The Northern Block, a UK-based...
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Can a New Partnership between Social and Traditional Media Regain Our Trust?
22 June 2018|Digital, Editorial, Print
As a gatekeeper of the news, Facebook has done a remarkably bad job. So it’s not surprising that social media is in freefall in the trust department. Yet according to Jennifer Risi, Worldwide Chief Communications Officer Managing Director for Ogilvy...
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Facebook (Really!) Launches a Print Magazine
20 June 2018|Magazine, Print, Social Media
What’s new in publishing, you ask? How about this for a mind blower: Facebook has launched a print magazine. You read that right. Facebook – the behemoth of all things digital – just announced the premier issue of Grow, according...
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Yankee Magazine – the Little Regional that Went National
19 June 2018|Magazine, Print
Three year ago, we congratulated Yankee Magazine on their 80th anniversary in print. At the time, Sydney Ember in The New York Times compared the magazine to a hardy New Englander. “Yankee has stuck it out, in much the same...
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Print & Digital – Happily So Far Together
19 June 2018|Digital, Print
“Both sides were wrong.” That’s the blanket statement recently issued by pseudonymous industry insider D. Eadward Tree. As he explains in a recent Publishing Executive post, the “print is dead” camp and the “digital will never work” side are both...
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Get Two Distinct Personalities with this Week’s Free Fonts
15 June 2018|design
Font designer Tom Chalky created Brixton as his first ever (and one of his best-selling) font families. He redesigned it in 2015, and it’s now available in three weights. Brixton features a distinctive, decorative style with a hand-drawn feel and...
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New Trend Had Designers Breaking a Cardinal Rule of Type
14 June 2018|design
Is it ever okay to alter a designer’s typography? According to some, the sliced text trend is one instance where it’s perfectly okay. “The nifty effect makes type elements look like they’ve been cut with a precision tool and can...
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The Bliss of Taking a Summer Digital Detox
14 June 2018|Magazine, Print
Travel guide company AFAR has a suggestion for all of us traveling this summer. “Buy a camera. Buy a book. And where you get to where you’re going, talk to people.”  Earlier this spring, AFAR launched their #travelunplugged initiative, in...
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Would You Pay for an Ad-Free Facebook?
13 June 2018|Social Media
Imagine a social platform where you could connect with the people and the information that’s important to you, minus the spam, the sleaze, and the intrusive advertising. Sounds great, right?  Now imagine paying that service around $7.63 a month. That’s...
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Uber Drives Forward with its Own Print Magazine
12 June 2018|Magazine, Print
Uber, that poster child of paradigm-disrupting digital commerce, has officially launched a beautiful print magazine. “The ride-sharing tech company is launching a magazine in several major cities for drivers and riders titled Vehicle,” writes Maxwell Tani in The Daily Beast....
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