10 Real Life Lessons for Designers
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“Fall in love with something that was designed." That was one of the 10 life lessons for designers shared by Paula Scher during her recent talk at the Royal Geographical Society’s lecture hall in London. The hall, according to Mark...
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Better Than Ever – the Modern Print Catalog
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The doorstop – that’s what we called the huge “wish books” that hung around our kitchen table every holiday season. We’d pour over those pages, dog-earing the good stuff and making our lists for Christmas. Those days of 1,000-page catalogs...
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7 Great Reasons to Launch a Customer Magazine
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The category is still fairly new, so you might be forgiven for not recognizing the term. But “customer magazines” represent a huge – and growing – portion of our industry. As this article in Print Power notes, customer or brand...
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SI Embraces Augmented Reality in a Big Way
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In a stunning example of the use of technology in a print publication, Sport’s Illustrated is unveiling its first augmented reality (AR) issue. “Sports Illustrated is trying to breach the gap between paper and digital with its first interactive issue,...
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The Tactile Argument for Photography Zines
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One photographer explains why digital marketing for photographers leaves a huge gap to fill. Photographer James Moreton has thousands of followers on Instagram and other digital channels to help market his work. Yet he still believes that print is the...
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ACT 7 Focuses on Getting Magazines Into the Hands Readers
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When Dr. Samir Husni spoke to the room at the recent ACT 7 Experience at the University of Mississippi’s Magazine Innovation Center, he was quick to point out one key bit of wisdom. “The problem is not the ink on...
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Meredith to print 1 Million Copies of the next Magnolia Journal
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When the launch was announced last fall, we had a feeling that The Magnolia Journal would be a big hit. The brand was perfectly poised to leverage their 4.7 million Instagram followers, 500,000 million Twitter followers, and a huge TV...
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The 100 Million Reasons by AMI Is Bullish on Magazines
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The sale of Us Weekly by Werner Media to American Media Inc. (AMI) has quickly become the biggest magazine media story of the year so far. As Caysey Welton in Min says about the deal, “The disclosed price tag of...
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Data Alchemy: How Airbnb and Hearst are Turning Data in Print
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You may remember that Airbnb launched Pineapple, their first print title, back in 2014. At the time they joined a growing number of digital-first companies launching in print. Then came hints of a possible partnership with Hearst a year later,...
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Curation and the Legacy Gap Created by Digital-Only Publishing
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“Why devote time and money to creating thoughtful long-form content when audiences tend to flock toward easier reads?” Paul Petrunia, founder of Archinect, an online publication for the architecture industry, says this is not a rhetorical question. “From a business...
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