The Huffington iPad Magazine

The Huffington iPad Magazine Don't sleep on the Huffington iPad magazine! That's my message to everyone for the holiday season. Huffington just marked their six-month anniversary of publication, and the now-free weekly app has become a powerful example of original tablet publishing. I've been doing a bunch of iPad consulting lately, and Huffington is always the first app I point to as something that is smart, original, engaging, and fully utilizing the power of the platform. Creative director Josh Klenert and his ace team have been creating some brilliant imagery and design, tapping a stellar crew of illustrators, photographers, and infographic-makers. It's been fun to watch the Huffington design morph and mature, especially since it's not based on an existing print publication format.

The app's cover design fuses the sensibility of gonzo altweeklies with the cool, modern, restrained look of the Dirk Barnett-era Newsweek, plus a dash of Arthur Hochstein's pop-Photoshop Time magazine covers. And the cover imagery swings from illustration to photograph to photo-illustration, with a constantly revolving collection of artists and photographers. In an era when newsweeklies are dropping like flies, it's inspiring to see someone still experimenting with the format, especially as a tablet-only app. I have no sense of the long-term viability of Huffington as a business proposition, but as a project it's on the cutting-edge of tablet content creation.

  • Illustration by Lorenzo Petrantoni
    Illustration by Lorenzo Petrantoni
  • lllustration by Charis Tsevis
    lllustration by Charis Tsevis
  • Photograph by Dan Saelinger
    Photograph by Dan Saelinger
  • Illustration by Brian Stauffer
    Illustration by Brian Stauffer
  • Illustration by Eddie Guy
    Illustration by Eddie Guy
  • Illustration by Noma Bar
    Illustration by Noma Bar
  • Illustration by Si Scott
    Illustration by Si Scott
  • Illustration by Jeffrey Decoster
    Illustration by Jeffrey Decoster
  • Illustration by Oliver Munday
    Illustration by Oliver Munday
  • Illustration by Ward Sutton
    Illustration by Ward Sutton
  • Photograph by Dan Winters
    Photograph by Dan Winters
  • Photograph by Stacy Kranitz
    Photograph by Stacy Kranitz
  • Photograph by Diego Riviera
    Photograph by Diego Riviera
  • Illustration by Joe Ciardiello
    Illustration by Joe Ciardiello


The Huffington. visual team:

Creative director: Josh Klenert
Art director: Andrea Nasca
Photography director: Anna Dickson
Designers: Martin Gee, Troy Dunham, Eve Binder, Susana Soares
Associate photo editor: Wendy George
Production director: Peter Niceberg

The Huffington. iPad app is available free here.
  • Jonathan Hoefler

    Hey, who vangoghed my lowercase g?

  • Josh Klenert

    Our little devil ears are showing!

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