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Posted Life at Hollywoodlife.com to Grids
Coverage of this weekend's Oscars will generate a multitude of digital media. Bonnie Fuller's Holllywoodlife.com is a newcomer to online celebrity news , launched November 2009. They will be generating their own fair share of buzz. After the jump Wilbert Gutierrez, the Creative...
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Posted 5 Questions for The Wonderfactory on the Apple Tablet to Grids
Next week it is almost certain that Apple will announce the iTablet (or iPad, product name TK). This Kindle size device could be a game-changer for the magazine industry by enabling and launching new and innovative paid digital content products. Sports Illustrated has...
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Posted NYT: Magazines Get Ready For Tablets to Grids
Magazines are taking the initiative in developing prototypes for the inevitable release of the Apple tablet.
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Posted Nypost.com: A User-friendly Redesign to Grids
The New York Post's website, nypost.com, re-launched in September with new features and a new design. Here's an interview with Nick Gould, CEO of Catalyst Group, the design group behind the new look & feel.
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Posted Spotlight on 'The Big Picture' from Boston.com to Grids
MediaShift has done a profile of both The Big Picture and Alan Taylor, the web developer behind it, in Big Pictures Help Tell Big Stories at Boston.com.It's worth a read and The Big Picture is definitely worth a look, especially...
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Posted The Daily Beast: A Q&A to Grids
Tina Brown's much talked about -- and visited -- online launch The Daily Beast is now two months old. Self described as not just another news aggregate, but as a site that "sifts, sorts and curates"..."We're as much about what's...
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Posted Designing 'The Knot' to Grids
If you've gotten engaged in the last ten years, then you've probably heard of The Knot -- one of the leading wedding brands online, also in print and video. As an online destination, TheKnot.com is a place where engaged couples...
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Posted Digital Paper: Closer than You Think to Grids
Wired has posted an article, "Flexible Displays Closer to Reality", that reports on how quickly the technology for thin flexible (paper-like) digital displays is progressing, possibly available as soon as 2010! The surprise news to me is that this speed-to-market...
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Posted Two BBC Video Shorts on the 'Paperless Paper' to Grids
The BBC has posted a short video interview with Dean Baker, manager at Plastic Logic. They're the maker of a super-thin electronic reader due out early next year. The video gives you a good sense of how the (still unnamed)...
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Posted The Atlantic's Redesign to Grids
The Atlantic has had eight redesigns in its 151 years. James Bennet writes in his editor's note, that the November issue's new design is, "...the eighth effort to harmonize The Atlantic's style with its substance and the timbre of the...
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Posted Luke Hayman on the Best and Worst Magazine Design Trends to Grids
Pentagram's Luke Hayman, one of the magazine industry's most respected and prolific designers, was filmed at "FOLIO:Show 2008" discussing the best and worst trends of 2008.Watch the video after the jump....
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Posted Time.com's Redesign: A Q&A to Grids
TIME.com recently launched a new home page design. Soon after it went live, I got in touch with the site's design director Sean Villafranca and Shivani York, their director of product development. Sean and Shivani are both former colleagues who...
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Posted CS4 Video Tutorial Site to Grids
Adobe released CS4 this week and their how-to magazine site, Layersmagazine.com, also launched the Adobe Creative Suite 4 Learning Center with forty video tutorials. ...
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Posted A (Live) Infograph Worth a Thousand Words to Grids
Noticed that at the nytimes.com all morning they were featuring a live streaming infograph of the Dow Jones Industrial Average in a prominent spot usually reserved for journalistic photography. As an image alone, I think it might just capture a...
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Posted Nothing Like the First Time to Grids
The Premiere Issues Project is a site dedicated to magazine covers of first issues. Click on a cover and get stats like name, dimensions, publisher and -- most importantly -- art direction and design....
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Posted "New E-Newspaper Reader Echoes Look of the Paper" to Grids
There is a notable piece in the NYtimes today about a new electronic newspaper reader from Plastic Logic due out next year. It seems to be similar in many ways to the Kindle, but larger in size and looks to...
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Posted AC/DC's Elegant Form to What Are You Looking At?
Here's what a composition from AC/DC's "Back in Black" looks like at The Shape of Song. Visit the site to view a selection of songs or add your own MIDI file to the repertoire to see its musical form.I'm thinking...
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Posted Dwell Redesign Interview with Kyle Blue to Grids
This week Chad Kloepfer from the Walker Art Center published an interview with Dwell Design Director Kyle Blue on their design blog. Chad talks with Kyle about the guiding principles, rejected covers, font choices and more that went into the...
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Posted Olympic Typography Skills (in 1968) to What Are You Looking At?
I don't know about you, but I've caught this Olympic fever; the more I watch, the more I find myself picking out the ubiquitous "Beijing 2008" Olympic logo on everything (I mean everything). I can't help but think to myself,...
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