Overmatter 30.01.13
Andy Cowles looks at the highs and lows of using a hashtag on your front cover.
Mario Garcia gets Flipboarding.
The PPA is 100 years old this year and will be celebrating by with a Front Cover of the Century vote. That’s a single cover from a hundred years of covers. Gulp.
Which types of magazine are publishing apps and for which platforms? According to Thea Selby, iPad business titles lead the way.
Julia have posted a portfolio of their work for Elephant magazine. Worth it for this New York spread alone.
Creative Review February 2013
My latest Creative Review column looks at the new generation of magazine apps coming to the iPhone, apps sharing simple navigation and finite content. The column is only available online to subscribers, but projects mentioned include Marco Arment’s The Magazine and The Awl & V as in Victor (both by 29th Street Publishing). All recommended.
You can read interviews with 29th Street’s creative director Tim Moore (who also makes the Letter to Jane magazine app) on the SPD blog and Verge. Craig Mod’s thoughts on Sub-compact Publishing, referred to in my column, can be read here.
Overmatter 21.01.13
Anikibo is a new peer-to-peer online magazine store. Think Etsy for mags.
Weekly advertising news mag Campaign cuts cost by dropping large format.
American Society of Magazine Editors squabbling over awards category changes.
Digital world turns against skeuomorphism. Hurrah!
Overmatter 18.01.13
SPD celebrate the imminent arrival of a US edition of Anorak.
Fashion mag does fashion story based on natural disaster. Zzzzz.
An archive of French Vogue covers, via the kings of the archive front cover, Newmanology.
Following initial scorn, Rolling Stone succumbs to the iPad app.
How to solve the problem of magazine subscriptions – compete at service with Amazon and John Lewis, not other publishers.
Coming soon: Letter to Jane #4
Tim at Letter to Jane has just released this video teaser of the photo gallery he has developed for the Kickstarter-funded fourth edition of his bespoke iPad magazine. Working with his new colleagues at 29st Publishing, the issue is looking great.
There’s a typically open explanation of progress to date on the project here.
Overmatter 11.01.13
The first issue of US Wired returns as an iPad app, while The Gourmet app, launched to keep the ex-print brand alive, is killed off by Condé Nast.
From last weeks Observer, the ‘digital flip flop’.
Dirk Barnett is interviewed about his role as creative director of The New Republic.
The Paris Review takes a look back at Berlin’s sensationalist Berliner Abendblätte.
US magazine makers are invited to the Media Consortium’s annual conference, February 4-6 in Baltimore (link updated).
While in London the annual Publishing Expo is set for the end of February.
UK Cosmopolitan editor Louise Court interviewed, discusses the ‘F’ word.
Overmatter 07.12.12
On tomorrows edition of Moncole24’s The Stack: Charlie Porter from The Guardian, Elliot Jay Stocks from Page 8 magazine, plus a report about the American Reader.
The Economist sees better times ahead for paywalls.
Is it that time again already? The SPD Awards are open for entries.
Next week in Rome – the 3rd Belvedere independent magazine festival.
The Daily may be dead but Joe Zeff presents the case for tablet publishing.
Overmatter 03.12.12
News Corp finally closes their iPad-only ‘newspaper’ The Daily; last issue December 15. Cue ‘the end of digital’ stories. See what I wrote on its launch.
UPDATE: An insider’s story.
This is how The Economist is dealing with digital: charging separately for it.
A look back at M magazine, published in the eighties for ‘The Civilized Man’.
Don’t forget this weeks New York meeting of the Little Magazine Coalition.
And if you’re in Cyprus later this month, MagDossier is a must-see.
Overmatter 30.11.12
Grazia launches an iPad app with built in ecommerce linked to various online stores. Created using Pugpig.
Condé Nast magazines feature an odd cover addition promoting Windows 8; each one customised to refer to the carrying magazine but apparently not a paid-for arrangement. Rather nasty on my issue of The New Yorker.
See the work of New York Times Magazine art director Gail Bichler.
Eye is disappointed by Wet magazine retrospective.
Monocle are holding their Christmas Market at their Marylebone offices this weekend.
