Tag Archive for 'magazine'

Will Apple ban newspaper iPhone apps for nudity?

CAIRO: Will Apple ban popular newspaper apps from the iPhone App store?

UPDATE: of the Las Vegas Sun tells me that he is worried about his news app being banned. (full quote further down)

Update No. 2. that “The International Federation of the Periodical Press (FIPP) is considering making a complaint to Apple over the computer firm’s request that German publisher Axel Springer censor the naked girls on one of its iPhone apps.”

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How a magazine spread is designed and the handwriting of type designers

Two things: A video that shows how a magazine article is laid out and samples of the handwriting of influential type designers - A “two-fer for Tuesday” as some DJ’s used to say in radio . . . you remember radio? Radio when it was programmed by human DJ’s in real-time don’t you?

The “hot single” is this fun time-lapse video that documents a designer’s work shaping up a magazine spread.
I found this on Swiss designer Tina Roth Eisenberg’s blog.

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Super-thin e-reader could deliver next edition of your newspaper, book or musical score

Demo of Plastic Logic e-reading device.

I first saw German-based startup, Plastic Logic, demo their remarkable flexible screen technology in Seoul in 2005 at the World Newspaper Congress. They had a small booth and small flexi-screen sample back then. And, I last updated Visual Editors in August of 2006 with a video round up of the latest e-readers. Today, my friends at SportsDesigner posted up a notice of a film clip they spotted.

Here is a demo video with Richard Archuleta, the CEO Plastic Logic, demonstrating the world’s first electronic reader aimed specifically for business users.

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