A Dozen Examples of Great Magazine Illustration
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One of the things I love about print magazines is the way they provide a perfect platform for creative and compelling illustration. As Grace Wang in Stack explains, illustrations play a huge part in “defining a magazine’s visual identity, giving...
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Amazon is Printing a Toy Catalog – and I Can’t Wait for Christmas
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Amazon – the largest face of online retail today – is making a bold move in print for the upcoming holiday season. “In a drive to win the business up for grabs after the demise of Toys ‘R’ Us Inc.,...
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New Print Magazine About People and the Good They Do
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Where is all the good news? It’s a question I ask myself a lot when I scan the news lately. And I’m not alone.  A new magazine called For has just launched, and it offers a collection of stories from...
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Celebrity Brands Thriving in the New Magazine Model
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You bring the fan base; we’ll provide the expertise. That’s the basis promise of several recent high-profile celebrity brand print publications, like Chip and Joanne Gaine’s Magnolia Journal and Ree Drummond’s Pioneer Woman. And according to Greg Dool in Folio:,...
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Silver Alert! Is Your Print Missing?
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Dr. Steve Green, EVP of Charisma Media Group, likes to picture Mark Twain rocking away on the banks of the Mississippi, putting in his two cents about today’s media landscape.  “Well, of course, print is not dead nor is it...
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Facebook’s Print Magazine or Whatever It is
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Just last week we shared the news that Facebook has launched a print magazine. It’s true. Facebook – the behemoth of all things digital –announced the premier issue of Grow, according to Piet van Niekerk in FIPP. The magazine – a...
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Print Magazines and the #DataHarvestingSafeZone
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  Wallpaper*, the iconic design magazine that continues to break new ground, made news last year when it turned 20 and published its beefiest issue yet. This summer, they are making a statement yet again. “We’ve always championed the multisensory...
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The Weird Conundrum about Recent Ad Data
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This still has me scratching my head.According to a survey by Clutch, the most trustworthy advertising today is on television, followed by print, and then radio. At the bottom of the heap are online and social media ads.Not only that,...
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Some Common Sense from Mr. Magazine
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Common sense – seems it’s sorely lacking in many quarters today. But in the publishing business, common sense is alive and well.  A handful of common sense approaches ring especially true to Samir “Mr. Magazine” Husni, who recently shared “Common...
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Why Smaller Magazine Brands are So Darn Positive These Days
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When Linda Thomas Brooks, President and CEO of the Association of Magazine Media (MPA), opened the 2018 IMAG conference earlier this month in Boston, she had one piece of advice for the brands represented there.“When people accuse you of being...
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