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Walter Allner noted designer, typographer and painter was trained at the Bauhaus under Josef Albers, Vasily Kandisky and Joost Schmidt. He also worked for a short time with Otto Neurath, inventor of the Isoype, at the Österreichisches Gesellschafts- und Wirtschaftsmuseum in Vienna. He also worked briefly with Piet Zwart, the influential Dutch typographer. He worked … Continue reading »

To successfully work with other people, you have to trust each other. A big part of this is trusting people to get their work done wherever they are, without supervision. It is the art of delegation, which has served Virgin and many other companies well over the years. We like to give people the freedom … Continue reading »

It’s all about touch. People were either intimately involved with the iPad screen while reading during recent eyetracking study — keeping nearly constant contact while touching, tapping, pinching and swiping to adjust their view — or they carefully arranged a full screen of text before physically detaching as they sat back to read. This intimate … Continue reading »

The Guardian asked for my take on the death of The Daily. Here it is (with links that fell out on the way to London): On Twitter, I’ve already been accused of schadenfreude over the death of News Corp.’s soon-to-die, pay-walled, tablet-only, once-a-day news venture called The Daily. Not so. I’d have loved to have … Continue reading »

  There was a story told by the mayor of the town of Niterói, across the bay from Rio de Janeiro, that expresses perfectly the epic stature of the Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer, who has died aged 104. In the spring of 1992, after Niemeyer’s first visit to the seafront site chosen for the town’s … Continue reading »

  If you’ve ever wondered how creating an app for the iPhone (3GS/4/4S/5) works, here is a free webinar for you! We will walk you through how to use our free tools to create your first pages and make your first app. Who should attend? All current users of Mag+ Anyone interested in digital publishing … Continue reading »

“No other time in the history of the world have we seen a 3-year-old and an 80-year-old use the same tool in the same way,” said Y&R Global CEO David Sable during his keynote presentation at the 2012 Digital Marketing Exposition & Conference. Sable’s presentation goes beyond the now-ubiquitous iPad swipe, and explores how Generation … Continue reading »

By Amy Mitchell & Tom Rosenstiel of PEJ, and Leah Christian of the Pew Research Center Perhaps no topic in technology attracted more attention in 2011 than the rise of social media and its potential impact on news. “If searching for news was the most important development of the last decade, sharing news may be … Continue reading »

Creating your digital magazine with Mag+ starts with InDesign, the most widely used platform in the publishing industry, so designers don’t have to learn any new software. A simple InDesign template takes advantage of built-in functionality like guides and layers to let you place material and transitions where you want. The Mag+ InDesign plug-in lets … Continue reading »

Results of all previous RJI tablet surveys can be found on the RJI website at: http://www.rjionline.org/news/rji-dpa-tablet-research-project. For more information, contact Roger Fidler at fidlerr@rjionline.org. According to Reynolds Journalism Institute findings, two-thirds of U.S. adults used at least one mobile media device in their daily lives during the first quarter of 2012. Smartphones and large media tablets … Continue reading »

  by Sara Dickenson Quinn Poynter’s “EyeTrack: Tablet” project, the latest in our long tradition of research to understand how readers view news, can now announce some early results: iPad users have an overwhelming instinct to swipe horizontally through a full screen photo gallery, regardless of portrait or landscape orientation. Our Poynter research team thought … Continue reading »

TOP GEAR – There are times in the day when you just need to stop what you’re doing, and take 15 minutes to relax and learn. This is one of those times. Turn your speakers/headphones up, click play on the video above, and learn about every inch of Pagani’s new hypercar, the Huayra. And prepare … Continue reading »

New York Times Magazine redesign Begin with a frank and comprehensive look at who your readers are. The answer will be the cornerstone of a successful redesign: -        Who are your readers? What else do they read, what do they watch, how do they spend their time? -        Why do they read you? What unique … Continue reading »

About Mag+ Today’s touchscreen tablets offer designers a gorgeous and powerful canvas to create a new generation of digital publications. And digital publishing should be fun. So we built the Magplus publishing system to be as easy-to-learn and flexible to use as possible. We’ve put the creatives, not the tech team, back in the driver’s … Continue reading »

Jeremy Clarkson about Riva’s passion and creation. 1842. Lake d’Iseo. A sudden storm wreaks what appears to be irreparable havoc: damaged boats, disheartened fishermen with no means with which to work. But a skilled young carpenter, newly arrived in the area from Laglio on Lake Como, accomplishes a miracle, managing to repair most of the … Continue reading »

I have read the column by David Bornsteins in New York Times today and I have to highlight one sentence: “Journalism is a feedback mechanism to help society self-correct.” You can read a column at: http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/20/why-solutions-journalism-matters-too/?ref=opinion I also read research by AP “A New Model for News”, actually I read in the last 8 years a … Continue reading »

Elefteros Tipos The first Greek daily news magazine. The circulation is up. The advertising is up. After many years of decline, ET is becoming a leading player again. The Greek market needed a new kind of newspaper. Different. Compelling. Attractive. Well-designed. And well-printed. The newsroom of Eleftheros Tipos is doing a first-class job. ET-K, the … Continue reading »

Big brands are using hipper, more sophisticated campaigns with Latin celebrities and parties to help connect with consumers.  When Western Union and Johnnie Walker designed their new nationwide marketing campaigns this year they chose to put Hispanic artists and Miami venues at the center of their efforts — a move that reveals that Hispanics are … Continue reading »

TV Guide Related Fonts: Sans Boomer, Boomer Serif, Quiosco  Designed by: Robert Newman, James Reyman, Kate Thompson and Katherine Dillon Boomer Sans Cyrus Highsmith designed Boomer Sans & Boomer Serif as one series to tie the design of AARP The Magazine to AARP The Bulletin and AARP Segunda Juventud. Together the Boomers illustrate the guiding … Continue reading »

Cover page, magazine Wired First and most important fact – cover pages are not to be studied, you need to respond on them.   The time that readers spend on the cover is shorter and shorter, and if your sale is based on  daily struggle for readers – then your cover page should be designed … Continue reading »

Poynter Institute is testing reader so publishers could understand them better. Link:http://eyetrack.poynter.org/ Please note the following, you’ll benefit from it: The reader enters the page through the largest image on a page – mostly photos. After this, most readers notice headlines. Caption under the picture is in third place where readers eye stops. These three … Continue reading »