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I’m about to create my personal Wallpaper* front cover for the August issue. There’s still time for you to register too.
Love has an interesting new image-led website (thanks Marissa).
Coupe magazine announces its annual design competition. Closing date for entries June 16.
I’m not a fan of PDF page turner ‘magazines’, but the typography in this one caught my eye: The Great Wen.
A video preview of the new launch Industrie, ‘the first and only media title dedicated to presenting an independent, in-depth look at the fashion industry’. Remains to be seen how genuinely independent it is, but this quick glance leaves me wanting a closer look.
Things To Look At honours the New Yorker.
Ideas Illustrated & The Ride Journal
Every day is magazine day here at magCulture, but yesterday was particularly magazine-orientated. About half though a days’ slog of InDesign template preparation I heard my pre-ordered iPad had arrived at home, but before I could get back to play with it I had a couple of socials to attend.
Wired iPad demo
Turn up (down?) the volume. In case you missed it yesterday, here’s the Wired iPad demo.
It’s fast, noisy, looks a lot like the print magazine and in this video looks fabulous on the iPad screen. I’m still waiting for my iPad to arrive, so will reserve judgement til I see the App live. Watch this space.
Wired iPad App
The long-awaited Wired iPad App is almost with us now available at the Apps store. The 100MB App launches with the June issue and at $4.99 costs the same as the print edition.
The App was delayed by Apple’s fall-out with Adobe, but that hurdle appears resolved and the resulting App will be largely based on the Wired demo released earlier this year. The advantage for publishers (the software will be made available to other magazine publishers as well as Wired’s Condé Nast) is that although the resulting App is more media rich than others, the system is an add-on to InDesign. So, in theory, the same creative team can add the App creative to the end of the magazine workflow. More here.
UPDATE: UK cost £2.99
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A detail from the new Times website: about halfway down the home page there’s a clock featured as part of the engraving marking the ‘leading articles’ section. This engraving is a traditional part of the print edition, but here on the web the clock actually tells the real time. Nice!
While we’re on The Times, lots of coverage for the new websites: Eye points out its newspaper-like qualities in a positive fashion, while others question them for the same reason. And don’t even get people started on the paywall. Watch out for the next EDO event, featuring a close-up look at the soon-to-arrive iPad App from the same newspaper and design team. Perhaps that gives a clue to the new sites newspaper-like look?
The June issue of Creative Review includes my review of magazine iPad Apps to date.
It’s a tough life: footballer Christiano Ronaldo is apparently angry to have been Photoshopped together with rival Didier Drogba for the current Vanity Fair cover (see previous post).
The Preston is My Paris team have more publications out now, and have sorted PayPal for orders.
Jens has a close-up look at the latest issue of 032c.
Times previews paywall site
The Times and Sunday Times have launched previews of what their new paid-for websites will look like. And the answer appears to be – a newspaper. See the new Times site above, and the current one below. The new look is much more newspaper-like, with less of the listed headlines beloved of newspaper websites, a larger ‘front page’ lead image, a newsprint-style centred masthead, and subtler tabs.
The two sites live side by side for four weeks before the new one takes over and access is subject to payment. More here.
Out now: Aortica
I don’t know much about this new publication from Germany, but that cover sure looks lovely. You can order Aortica here.
Sports Illustrated digital magazine demo
This Sports Illustrated demo has been created by New York company The Wonderfactory using HTML5, meaning it can run video and animation without relying on Flash, and also run on a standard browser on a PC or Mac. It’s based on their earlier collaboration on an iPad demo, but this version isn’t ready to work on that device yet.
What’s interesting is that being HTML-based it’s searchable, but shares the iPad’s ability to use big images and specific fonts. Less interesting is the way it looks – still too much magazine mimicry.
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More on the non-death of print: first The Guardian: ‘the ephemeral nature (of the web) is no match for the tangibility of print’.
Meanwhile, in the US, magazine readership ‘remains stable’.
A gallery of the shortlists for this years Maggies Awards, iSubscribe’s public vote for front cover of the year. If you can find one to vote for, do so here.
48hr magazine falls foul of lawyers protecting TV show of same name, while Andrew reviews the magazine and finds flaws: ‘a slick-looking magazine that feels rushed’.
The London Zine Symposium 2010 takes place May 29-June 01 at the Rag Factory, E1. Loads of small magazines, events and workshops.
Adrian Shaughnessy unearths a 2004 piece he wrote about Francis Ford Coppola’s Zeotrope All-story magazine.
Girl With a Satchel writes an open letter to The Gentlewoman: ‘I guess what I’m saying is I think we can be friends, but our relationship has to be based on more than just good looks’.
