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• Posted App Press Customer Success Manager to Job Board
  Are you passionate about improving customer experience and transforming business relationships? Do you constantly see ways to enhance communication and customer service? We are a growing company looking for the first member of our Customer Success team. Based in Indianapolis,...
• Commented on Farewell to an Icon: Steve Jobs (1955-2011)
  As a designer, entenpuener and Apple fan Steve was a huge inspiration. He will be missed. This 15 minute video sums it up: http://www.ted.com/talks/steve_jobs_how_to_live_before_you_die.html#.To1mH9542U9.facebook If you do anything today it should be watching this....
• Commented on These Guys Kick APPS: Q&A (Part 2)
  Michel and Jochem: Best advice is to ship it ASAP! - The truth Joe: The best approaches are often the simplest ones. Consider that design serves two fundamental roles here: branding and functionality. - The truth Thanks for this post...
• Commented on The Story of O Rocks the House!
  Also looking forward to the full recap!...
• Commented on SPD 45: The Design Annual For iPad
  Done and done. Great inspirational resource! Well played Mr. Klenert and Balance Software....
• Commented on "Above & Beyond" The Traditional iPad Publication App
  Great work Joe, just downloaded the app. Always love reading insight from one of the leaders in digital publishing....
• Commented on GQ iPad App v2.0
  The design looks very sharp and perfect for the iPad. Having designed a few apps myself I know the hard work that goes into these digital editions. Love how the design compliments the print version yet enhances the app version....
• Commented on First Look: The Newsweek Redesign
  I have been a huge fan of Dirk since his Maxim days. I admire his ability to combine the perfect font with the perfect layout. I plan on picking up the magazine today. Hats off to your team! This looks...
• Commented on Three Questions For Grant Glas, Principal, Invisions Technical Arts
  App Press & Invisions' co-founder Kevin Smith is the technical genius behind App Press. All the credit goes to him for building the tool. Visit the App Press site at http://www.myappress.com/...
• Commented on The Daily Launches
  Wow... did anyone notice The Daily super bowl ad? Mr.Murdoch is sparing no expense....
• Commented on 10 Essential iPad Apps for Publication Designers
  Rupert Murdoch's The Daily was released today and is definitely worth checking out (after the 20 minute download). Another gem I found, Design Scene. This app has real-time visual inspiration from 50+ sites and a text feed from 30+ sites....
• Commented on A Recipe for Hotcake-Selling Magazine Apps
  Thanks for the post Robert! Joe Zeff touches on a great point: "create something new instead of redesigning something old." We are doing exactly that at my company Invisions Technical Arts. My team is currently reformatting an entire magazine (Indianapolis...
• Commented on CMY Killa: Photoshop Tutorial Rap
  Josh this is beyond great! CMYKilla just went to my entire office....
• Commented on The Art Direction of Musician Magazine: John Korpics
  Awesome insight. Thank you for the article. I'm not ashamed to admit I did a lot of Korpics copying in my early days. A couple times a month I check out the new Fortune or his old EW work for...
• Commented on Mag App: Project magazine
  When downloading Project they fail to ever label how big the actual issue file is... Most magazine apps are 150 - 200 MB which means at least a 15 minute download time and the possibility for errors... Is this really...
• Commented on Bloomberg Businessweek
  Mission accomplished Richard. This work is excellent. Love the "Shredding the Dream" layout!...
• Commented on The Infamous Graffiti Magazine
  Shaun - great work! Love the top spread...
• Commented on A Tale of Two Free Magazine Apps
  Jeremy, excellent observations. Apps that don't work in landscape mode I believe is a trend that will only increase. The SI app recently went without the landscape view... Time's Josh Quittner, who's been guest editing the iPad edition of SI,...
• Commented on Joe Zeff: A Paper to Pixels Postscript
  CNBC reports that the iPad has become the most quickly adopted non-phone consumer electronics product in history, topping the DVD player, which shifted only 350,000 units in its first year on the market. Apple sold over 300,000 iPads in its...
• Commented on Mag App: Gourmet Live
  Josh, I'm 100% on board with your comment. My first thought was "really Gourmet, really?!?" It is free so I didn't get to worked up... It was nice to see something outside the Woodwing template that Conde Nast has made...
• Commented on Paper to Pixels v2: Favorite Apps
  Apple doesn't want to hand out valuable subscriber info willy nilly; publishers don't want to give a third of subscription revenue to Apple in perpetuity, as current App Store guidelines would dictate. So there've been no subscriptions. Until now, maybe......
• Commented on Paper to Pixels v2: Favorite Apps
  Fortune is put together nicely... but when you got Korpics that's pretty much a lock. For me the best "design" goes to Wired. I know it's the obvious choice... The design is so good probably because they are using a...
• Commented on Typomag: A design library must-have
  I agree with Nathalie, spread two gave me font goose bumps....
• Commented on Cool Nerds Go Negative
  Jeremy and Josh your two posts have the new Wired issue as overlapping shout-outs. I'd like to say how incredibly brilliant the new Wired issue is. Design and content are first-class. I thought the cover story was excellent along with...
• Commented on The New York Times Hits a Grand Slam with Flex
  These photos and videos are insane! The videos are a must... Love the Serena clip....
• Commented on Behind the Scenes: <i>Fortune</i> Goes to the iPad
  Great stuff from Korpics and his team. Always a big fan of his work. Too bad it's getting so many negative reviews based on the price... the app from a design (awesome) and function stand point is top notch....
• Commented on 10 Essential iPad Apps for Publication Designers
  Josh is right Flipboard is a great app! (I finally was able to sync my FB account) Flipboard was founded by Mike McCue, former CEO of Tellme and Evan Doll, a former senior iPhone engineer at Apple. So needless to...
• Commented on 10 Essential iPad Apps for Publication Designers
  I read The New York Times will launch Press Engine in the fourth quarter of 2010. Press Engine is a technology and design solution that allows publishers and media organizations to deliver their content across new platforms starting with iPhone...
• Commented on Mag App: Popular Mechanics (Beta Edition)
  100% agree with the observation: "As a reader it was pretty nice being guided through the issue by editorial decision making" Every element (i.e. data visualization / graphics ) added to the editorial content but didn't distract from it. Top...
• Commented on Mag App: Gourmet Live
  Anyone download the Sports Illustrated app yet? I'm really enjoying it! $4.99 an issue......