This Week, a Tale of Two Uppercase Fonts
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This week, it’s a tale of two fonts that stand tall and command attention. First up is Kel by Keine Martins, a Brazilian designer and art director. It’s a clean, uppercase sans serif with unusual edge styling that takes a...
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Ditching Instant Articles? You’re Not Alone
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Question: What do Cosmopolitan, CBS News, The Onion, National Geographic, The New York Times, The Washington Post and the Weather Channel all have in common? Answer: They were all initial partners in Facebook’s Instant Articles when it launched in 2015,...
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In the Real Estate Industry, Print Gets a Great Review
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It’s estimated that 90-95% of property searches now start online, thanks in large part to major players like Zillow and Trulia in the U.S., and Rightmove and Zoopla in the U.K. Not only do most buyers start online, but most...
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Facebook Needs to Just Stop It
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Last week, Mark Zuckerberg recalled traveling across the nation listening to the common folk last year (yeah, I don’t remember that either; I must have missed his stop near us in Ohio). Along the way, he noticed “one theme people...
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The How-To Guide to Make Money in Magazine Media in 2018
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“I make money the old-fashioned way: I was very nice to a wealthy relative right before he died.” That famous quote from Malcolm Forbes kicks of FIPP’s 2017-2018 Innovation in Magazine Media World Report. While it’s meant to be cute,...
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Print … Designed for the 21st Digital Traveler 
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Travel industry insiders say printed collateral is still incredibly important … but in a new way. A page from Abercrombie & Kent’s 2018 Antarctica brochure, which is more of an editorial product than its 20th century predecessors. Within the last...
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Wired Editor in Chief on Why Print “Makes Stuff Better”
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It’s fairly easy to understand why a print publisher like Hoffman Media is still incredibly bullish on print. The publisher knows its audience and their demand for quality publications. And for the Alabama-based publisher of several Southern-themed magazines, that means...
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This Week’s Free Friday Fonts Were Made to Go Large
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Enjoy these two typefaces that aren’t afraid to go big … yet are still at home scaled way down. Need striking visuals at a large scale? Try Planer Regular, designed by the folks at The Northern Block. This modern sans...
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Three Years Later, the Answer to “Why Print” is Even More Compelling
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A shout out to Dave Yoho from Dave Yoho associates for reminding us of this great article by Molly Sloat from the AMA. As I started to reread the piece (available on the AMA’s site here), I wondered if the...
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Twitter and the Fake Bot Rabbit Hole
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The high cost of being popular; an incredible look inside social media’s black market. When a member of Britain’s House of Lords, who also happens to sit on the board at Twitter, has 25,000 purchased followers on her account, there’s...
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