12.10.12
posted by Robert Newman
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.
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Illustration by Lorenzo Petrantoni
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lllustration by Charis Tsevis
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Photograph by Dan Saelinger
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Illustration by Brian Stauffer
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Illustration by Eddie Guy
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Illustration by Noma Bar
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Illustration by Si Scott
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Illustration by Jeffrey Decoster
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Illustration by Oliver Munday
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Illustration by Ward Sutton
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Photograph by Dan Winters
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Photograph by Stacy Kranitz
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Photograph by Diego Riviera
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Illustration by Joe Ciardiello
The Huffington. visual team:Creative director:
Josh KlenertArt director:
Andrea NascaPhotography director:
Anna DicksonDesigners:
Martin Gee, Troy Dunham, Eve Binder, Susana SoaresAssociate photo editor:
Wendy GeorgeProduction director:
Peter NicebergThe Huffington. iPad app is available free
here.