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Candy-Colored News

Candy-Colored News

Marumushi's Newsmap is a visual stunner that seems, on first look, like the answer for any over-worked, time- and attention-deficient person headed out to a cocktail party: stories from Google's News Aggregator, laid out in blocks of color, treemap fashion, with boxes or bands varying in both size and shade as the story itself waxes and wanes. An easy wrap on the world in just moments.

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"I've Retreated to a Safer Place"

Whenever I'm in Universal (on Broadway) I get kind of panicky. It's all too good... there is too much of it. The goodness I mean. Even pets have good magazines now. Foil and fluorescent, matte stock and UV--there is so little to distinguish the good from the bad. And where is the ugly? The mediocre? The crap? That by which we behold the awesome! The foil for the foil?
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"I Raved About It To My Magazine Store Clerk."

I hate to say it but I have been ogling the latest issue of Bon Appétit. It was the cover that got me! I wanted to eat up that ice cream cone right there in the magazine store. I raved about it to my local magazine store clerk. Asking him how many people have bought it? Who is buying it? Does he like the cover? (Magazine clerks know their covers!) Bon Appétit has exquisite typography, the structure is inviting and the photography is slick and tangible.

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