This is a discussion I had over recent weeks with my colleague Dan Ichimoto of Heaps Magazine. A culture magazine made in New York and published on iPad for a Japanese audience. He wanted to know what was going on in London with publishing for digital mags.
It was very nice to see one of my projects up on stage at the EDO talk this week – Cyclist Magazine App. It was being used an example of how well considered design can create strong templates in HTML products. Or as Ant Miller of Clearleft said in his post: “It’s structure heavy, technically, but this is just a scaffold for some really beautiful design.” Thanks! That is what I want people to think when they see my products. (http://clearleft.com/thinks/pointstopixelsatedo/)
A fascinating and fun day at the Digital Magazine Awards (#dma13) and the “Un-conference” before hand. Spoke to all sorts of interesting people about what is going on in the industry.
Here are some of the things we saw or that came up:
No matter how new the medium we still tell stories using familiar principles, components & references: iOS7 is set in Helvetica Neu designed in 1983, the hierarchy of The Guardian app echoes that of the print, Instagram evokes a passed most of its users didn’t experience, a photo always has a crop and a colour, Responsive design uses movable type – you can’t get more heritage than Gutenberg. More on this at a later date.
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