The web version of a print magazine is more likely to make money if it is managed by a web editor rather than being left in the hands of the publication’s editor-in-chief, according to a recent survey.
From among the magazine websites that do not make a profit, the survey found that it was nearly [...]
Web heads better at turning profits online than print editors
Posted by John Lampard on Thursday, 11 March, 2010 to the comment subset
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Imagine a magazine that is an interactive tablet
Posted by John Lampard on Monday, 21 December, 2009 to the technology subset
Combining magazines with e-readers to produce Mag+… is this the digital future of magazines?
The articles run in scrolls, not pages, and are placed side-to-side in kind of mountain range (as we call it internally). Magazines still arrive in issues: people like the sense of completion at the end of each. You flip [...]
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The intersection of art and science, rockets and guns
Posted by John Lampard on Wednesday, 2 December, 2009 to the design and art subset
Art and Technology in the Early Space Race: documenting the influence of the space race, cold war, plus rocket and arms technology, on the design and illustration of monthly and weekly periodicals last century.
Within the realm of monthly and weekly periodicals, trade publications aimed at working professionals within industry are less examined than their [...]
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Some of the hardest hitting magazine covers ever published
Posted by John Lampard on Tuesday, 13 October, 2009 to the design and art subset
A collection of controversial magazine covers, including Time Magazine’s April 1966 “Is God Dead?” cover and article by then editor John T. Elson, who incidentally died just last month.
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Internet most trusted information source, magazines least
Posted by John Lampard on Wednesday, 11 March, 2009 to the comment subset
One in four Australians are comfortable with the information they obtain online:
25% of the population list the Internet as their must trusted source of information. This is followed by newspapers at 20%, TV at around 17%, and radio at about 13%. Among the minority who are not online, radio is the most trusted medium. Only [...]
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Digital Web Magazine has closed
Posted by John Lampard on Tuesday, 10 March, 2009 to the comment subset
This is sad news, Digital Web Magazine has decided to cease publishing.
It doesn’t make sense to take what we have here and try to change it into something it is not. It makes more sense to simply start something else that is new. For this reason I feel that Digital Web Magazine will always be [...]
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Way2Go: adventure and a little red wine
Posted by John Lampard on Friday, 6 February, 2009 to the events subset
Last night I went along to the launch of Way2Go, a new website and bimonthly magazine, at Mezzaluna in Sydney’s King Cross district.
The event had all the ingredients of a great launch: food, wine, a funky band, a visit from the police (no, I know nothing about the crushed tea light candle on the stairs, [...]
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Magazine eye candy
Posted by John Lampard on Wednesday, 16 July, 2008 to the design and art subset
Veerle goes looking for magazines that conform to her layout and design ideals and presents her findings. Wow…
Some magazines really scream because of all the content. I don’t know where to look first with those. I am more a fan of the less is more approach. These kind of lay-outs makes it easier to read [...]
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One Leg Leads to Another
Posted by John Lampard on Thursday, 22 May, 2008 to the design and art subset
One Leg Leads to Another
A collection of book and magazine covers, and movie posters, featuring the use of the “A-Frame” spread-leg stance.
The human leg has evolved continually over many eons, adapting from an underwater propeller to its current form. But on book covers and on film and theater posters, the leg has evolved very little. [...]
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BLANK Magazine
Posted by John Lampard on Wednesday, 16 January, 2008 to the design and art subset
BLANK Magazine.
Produced by Australian art director Marcus Piper.
BLANK is a web based magazine with no content. It is a magazine with no images, no words and no advertising. BLANK is a contents page for the internet, a global springboard curated through the work and experiences of art director Marcus Piper. BLANK will be released seasonally [...]
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