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Apple and Collective Consciousness
With this circle construction, Apple is creating an environment suitable to build community as the elementary form of the “modern” religious life. It all started with a slogan – “Think Different”. Brainwash technique, throughout the years, gathered people that ‘found’ themselves in that old Apple’s “Think Different” slogan. Finally, they are creating a form of … Continue reading
FORMULA 1 UNVEILS NEW IDENTITY BY WIEDEN + KENNEDY LONDON
The new identity cements a year of change for F1 as it hopes to re-engage its global fanbase. We talk to W+K’s Richard Turley, who headed up the project, about the new logo and suite of typefaces that look to the heritage of the sport while aiming to drive it forward By Mark Sinclair Formula … Continue reading
“I saw the news on Facebook”
Brand attribution when accessing news from distributed environments More consumers are incidentally exposed to content via feeds or recommendation engines. What are the implications for publishers? This shift towards distributed media has been widely documented in Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2017, with the majority of access to websites and apps is now via side-door routes the … Continue reading
The Guardian: Newspapers face up to the ad crunch in print and digital
The summer of 2015 will be remembered as the moment a perfect storm hit national newspapers. The print advertising market, which still remains the lifeblood of income for most publishers on the path to digital sustainability, has been down unprecedented levels of as much as 30% in some weeks over the past six months. Most … Continue reading
State of the News Industry 2014
In many ways, 2013 and early 2014 brought a level of energy to the news industry not seen for a long time. Even as challenges of the past several years continue and new ones emerge, the activities this year have created a new sense of optimism – or perhaps hope – for the future … Continue reading
Developers, media specialists ‘Hack the Future of Journalism’
Tool incentivizing quality reporting wins top prize Nearly 80 programmers, news executives and community activists teamed up May 31 and June 1 at San Francisco’s KQED Public Media to hack products designed to improve journalism. Incentivizr, which lets paid digital media subscribers allocate a bit of that money directly to the producers of their … Continue reading
Why American Express Wants to Kill Credit Cards
Leslie Berland has a curious job. She’s paid to think about all the ways to make her company’s flagship product obsolete. Berland leads digital partnerships and development at American Express, the company that pioneered the notion that a piece of colored plastic could not only buy stuff but raise your social status. In the … Continue reading
RJI Study: Newspapers growing revenue in non-traditional ways
Although the overall amounts are small, a handful of alternative revenue streams pursued by daily newspapers are throwing off double-digit profits. And while monetizing digital operations remains a challenge, daily newspaper publishers expect digital revenue to represent a significantly greater share of their revenue stream in the coming three years. Interviews with 416 publishers in … Continue reading
Newspaper publishers remain optimistic about future of their industry
Despite sharp revenue declines over the last five years, publishers of U.S. daily newspapers remain optimistic about the future of their industry. After a year marked by solid growth in mobile products and a proliferation of paid content models, an overwhelming majority of publishers in a recent survey — 69 percent — expressed optimism about … Continue reading
News Corp snaps up ‘social news agency’ Storyful for $25M
While most online video and other social media content is junk, there are hidden gems in there — and they can be exceptionally valuable to news agencies. Storyful combs through that content, aggregating stories from sites like YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter, and verifying the sources in the process. And now it’s part of News Corp., Rupert … Continue reading
Aston Martin DB10
Production will be strictly limited to 10 of the bespoke sports cars, developed and built by the designers, engineers and highly skilled craftspeople at Aston Martin’s Gaydon headquarters.
Architect Oscar Niemeyer
"My work is not about form follows function, but form follows beauty or, even better, form follows feminine."
BACK to BASICS: Portraits
Portraits of people are one of the first elements of the photography used in newspapers.
Typography: x-heigh
In typography, x-heigh refers to the heigh of lower case letters without upper or lower parts when compared to capital letters...
Designer George Lois
“I always knew I was the most talented kid in the school, ” says George Lois of his time at Music and Art. “I was lucky to be exposed to the city’s best art education"...
BODY COPY
Newspaper typefaces require a higher legibility then typefaces used for other printed products. Newspaper are printed on a paper of lesser quality under high speed.
How to redesign 1
Good redesign is driven by a deep understanding of the editorial mission of the publication.
Headline on photographs
The eternal dilemma! Dilemma of all editors on the planet Earth – to put or not put the headline or any kind of type in the photo.
Design Facts
Three elements that will greatly help you to understand how readers are observing you.
Typeface: NY Times Magazine
Sunday Magazine is an expansive family of fonts for information in tiny spaces and headlines at large sizes.
Infographics
When, why and whether to use infographic. The basic fact is that infographic refresh the publication, and it contributes to originality of your product.
A well-designed publication
Everything that a well-designed publication must have...
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