August 2011
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July 2011
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“Personally I like the concept of having a magazine of content created by someone...”
– I couldn’t agree more… check the full article in The future of iPad/digital magazines – the six big questions
April 2011
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eMarketer Projections says online revenues won't... →
It isn’t news that magazines are seeing their print advertising revenue disappear before their eyes; the real story is in whether they can replace that lost cash with online revenue. New data from eMarketer answers this in the negative, projecting that total US magazine ad revenue will fall from $17 billion in 2010 to less than $15 billion by 2015.
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“(…) Oz for digital publishing is still a very long digital brick road.”
– Rudebare in Comments for A Race Between Digital and Print Magazines
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TABLET PC COMPARISON →
Check out the iPad competence in the tablet market…
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This I Want To See!!!
I’m downloading May Issue of WIRED Magazine for the iPad that is free, and promising the inclusion of the following tools that I’m interested to see…
In this issue, WIRED extends reader engagement even further, including:
Social sharing that allow readers to post articles via Twitter, Facebook or share via email
Functionality that allows readers to tap on a “Buy Now” button...
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“(…) Very few people write blogs or produce any type of media these days, people...”
– Something to think about… The Demise Of Social Media And The Return Of Mass Media by Tom Foremski via Flipping Pages
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WatchBonnier created one of the first creative concepts for a tablet magazine before the iPad come to existence. Now they developed NEWS+, a digital daily newspaper concept…
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“We think tablet technology will create a new group of tablet-only publishers. It...”
– Mike Basso from Tablet Ad Network interviewed Digital Magazine Publishing
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Arquitetura & Construção
Just found today in Talking New Media that Arquitetura & Construção launched their title for the iPad using the Woodwing platform. Being an architect and developing myself a title for the iPad, I downloaded the App and made a test run…
First of all, the contents were a positive surprise. I stopped reading Arquitectura & Construção (their portuguese sibling from Grupo Impresa) because I...
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Inspiration from Print Design
Something that I’ve been trying on my site is bringing that influence of print design online, heavily inspired by a magazine…Where I might have a very simple system for layout, some very common page elements—things like the date, the title and the navigation. And that can stay intact. But when the story calls for it…the visual design can adapt around that. Things can change.
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How Deep Are Digital Magazines?
Secrets and Happiness of Digital Publishing is one of the great blogs I currently follow due to our interest in iPad publishing. This post analyzes in a graphical way the rhythm of the magazines, posting a Spark type of graphic that allow us to analyse the trends for each title. It is worth the reading…
read the full article in digitalpublishing
March 2011
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“We throw content on a twenty centimeter screen without knowing how it actually...”
– German type designer Erik Spiekermann about apps for the iPad in Horizont (December 2, 2010)
November 2010
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“So why build an app when you could more easily build a website that works on...”
– Full Article @ Joe Zeff Design
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October 2010
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Digital Magazine Publishing Tools
The first set of tools to publish on the iPad are now available to the public as BETA program. We have been part of the Pre Release Program and I have to say that these tools are quite impressive…
The Adobe® Digital Publishing Suite is a turnkey set of hosted services and viewer technology
that tightly integrates with Adobe Creative Suite® 5 products. Using the Digital Publishing Suite,...
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From The Hip: Bundle Diving In The WIRED iPad App. →
I finally got around to downloading the WIRED iPad App today. My first observation was it was taking forever to download, initially I thought my internet connection had dropped out. A quick check of the App Store showed the download weighed in at a whopping 527MB! Surely there’s not that much content in the app? Adobe were charged with bringing WIRED to the iPad, so I was curious to delve into...
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The Cost of Building an iPad App
Most people have no idea of the costs involved in building an App for the iPad or the iPhone, but as it involves many people and countless hours of work, the numbers can get astronomical and the most times the expected revenues are not enough to pay up for all bills.
Check this article on PADGADGET.COM showing examples of Twitterific, FLUD and Cut the Rope.
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Turning A Print Magazine Into A Friendly IPad...
Check out the critique on Dazed and Confused on Design Notes, one of the blogs I follow regularly because of the interesting links and views on contemporary design.
More Info @App Store or Read Full Article in designnotes.com
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WatchUP! is the magazine of the TAP Air Portugal, the Portuguese air carrier. Although very well designed by +2Designers with special attention to cover shoots and showing really interesting contents —I fly as much as I can with TAP and it’s a pleasure to read it— their iPad version is the perfect example of how not to do a Digital Magazine.
The approach of quickly transforming the existing...
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September 2010
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“Publishing companies always claim to be in the content business, but if the...”
– Read Full Article @PRIVATEFRASER
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“The easiest way to stop digital magazines sucking is to avoid publishing...”
– Read Full Article @FLIPPINGPAGES
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Since the launch of the Apple iPad six months ago…
This article by BERG presented a few ideas in ICON MAGAZINE about publishing on the iPad and the challenges publishers are having on it, from cover design to promotion strategies…
We are in a world of search rather than browse – which perhaps in turn leads to a change in the role of cover design, from “buy me, look what’s inside” to “you know what’s inside, but here is an incredible, evocative...
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The IAgency: How the IPad Will Change the...
Phil Johnson writes about the challenges for Ad Agencies in the iPad world, saying that they should learn about the dying print industry…
All these developments raise the creative bar for agencies. At a minimum, if you’re in the business of creating any kind of publication, you will need to master this new medium if you expect to get the attention of consumers. There’s also a...
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Interview with Matthew Cokeley, Art Director of...
Popular Science is one of the most interesting magazines translated to the iPad. On the SND Society for News Design website we found an interesting interview by SND Mike Rice with its Art Director Mathew Cokeley.
Silent mode Magazines are a luxury that readers can lose themselves in. Mag+ has fewer distractions than the Web. It allows readers to lean back, away from the browser, and just focus...
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Look for continuities and convergence before...
”(…) The conventional wisdom in the magazine industry is that digital magazines need to be radically different from what has gone before. There is a marked difference between magazine publishers and book publishers in this respect. Since book publishers assume that digital books, or ebooks, are really very much the books that publishers have always published. Book publishers assume that...
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WatchReimagining The Magazine Cover For The iPad
But what should a magazine cover look like on the iPad? After all, the cover is still the gateway to the magazine. Theoretically, it will still be the first page people see, giving them hints of what’s inside and enticing them to dive into the issue. One way these covers could change is that instead of simply repurposing the static photographs from the...
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“What many publishers and developers are failing to grasp is one simple rule:...”
– Full Article @TalkingNewMedia
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WatchThis is one of the best magazines I’ve seen for the iPad with a positive mix of multimedia, photos and text, giving coherence to a good editorial work. This video clearly shows the design character of the application, the intuitive user interface and the quality of the included media, either video or photos. We asked a few questions to Ninan Kurien from Edition29…
Your background seems to...
August 2010
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Zinio's iPad @ talkingnewmedia.com
A review of the ZINIO’s iPad Reader App. I dislike the easy way to get print magazines on the new media devices such as Zinio or Issuu mainly because their page flip metaphor and the lack of interactivity, but this one is doing a good job…
As found in the talkingnewmedia.com website…
Let’s be honest: I do not like flip books — at least flip books on the web. It is not...
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WatchFour interactive infographics designed and built by Applied Works for The Times. Read more about these graphics on appliedworks.co.uk website…
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HOW THE "THE TIMES" IPAD APP WAS DESIGNED…
And how does the iPad graphics differ from those you might find online? Primarily the difference is in designing for touch navigation in place of mouse, and to a lesser extent the advantages of designing to two fixed aspect ratios (portrait and landscape) rather than the multitude of different monitor sizes you have to cater for with the desktop web.
Read Full article here…
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Popular Science+
”(…) we don’t love magazines because they’re interactive. We love them because they’re inspiring, surprising, and provocative. They help us in our everyday life. We can read them from the first page to the last and then save them. The problem was we couldn’t deliver that kind of experience to our readers through the web on a computer screen. But on a handheld Multi-Touch screen like iPad,...
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IPAD USER EXPERIENCE GUIDELINES →
Apple’s Human Interface Guidelines for the iPad outline how to create user interfaces optimized for the iPad device. According to Apple, the best iPad applications: downplay application UI so that the focus is on content; present content in beautiful, often realistic ways; and take full advantage of device capabilities to enable enhanced interaction.
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The Savior of Condé Nast: Scott Dadich Is The New...
designcircus (via mypad)
Meet Scott Dadich, the savior of Conde Nast and the man of the hour for the magazine world.
Someday, when they tell the story of how digital magazines saved Conde Nast, it will begin in San Francisco’s Caffé Centro sometime in May 2009.
It was there that Wired creative director Scott Dadich asked Wired editor Chris Anderson to meet him to discuss the creation of a...
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WatchWe are preparing a review of this iPad app, and a small interview with the producers. Check our blog during the week…
(via myphoneviews)
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WatchOne of the most expected tools by the industry is the promising Digital Publishing Platform from ADOBE. It compiles InDesign CS5 files into the new .ISSUE iPad format proposed by Adobe as an answer to Apple FLASH-FREE publishing requirements.
This tool was develop in conjunction with the WIRED mag team for their June issue, but it was at the same time revolutionary and disappointing because of...
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Brian O’ Connor, Creative Director of The Iconist
Mário Garcia, one of the most valuable Newspaper Gurus of today, asks a couple questions to Brian O’ Connor, the creative director of the Iconist, the new culture and lifestyle magazine from Axel Springer.
This magazine is speccially made for the iPad, exploring this new digital media to deliver a rich experience on the subjects it cover…
Mario What were the design challenges that you...
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The Iconist
More Info at iTunes Store
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iPad at Work: Architect
Architecture and iPad are two themes hat interest me, as I understand the potencial of tablets for our profession, being presentation instruments, working gadgets or reference tools. ARCHITACTILE is working on a ”trying to develop super cool architecture applications for iPad, we think there’s all kinds of other useful stuff architects can use iPads for in addition to running our...
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“(…) an iPad edition of your publication is NOT print, and it is NOT online,...”
– Mário Garcia. iPad app planning: start with information architecture.