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You may have already seen a digital magazine. Most are ported from print, although some (like our sister publication, InDesign Magazine) live only in the digital realm. While they can and do have some interactivity, reading these digital magazines isn't far removed from reading print magazines.
But in the last month, videos have circulated that show a wildly different "magazine" experience, with sound, video, and social media components as key players and, most radically, with the ability for readers to completely reconfigure a publication's content. Although they're still in the concept stage, these publications present intriguing opportunities for readers and, of course, for designers.
This is the original demo video (created by The Wonderfactory) of a digital Sports Illustrated:
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Free For All: Great Resources On the House
Pariah Burke has found free snowy Photoshop brushes, colorful Twitter themes, InDesign data merge help, outdoor photo shoot help, design critiques, and an icon converter, all free.
Just looking at this Photoshop brush makes me chilly:
Related Reading: Here's a free training resource that's constantly growing.
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Three Big Reasons to Never Compete on Price
It's a tight market for freelance print and Web designers, and you may be tempted to slash your prices just so you can land a job. Jeanna Pool says you should think twice.
Related Reading: Eric Adams has something to say about this topic, too.
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Scanning Around With Gene: Groovy Graphic Design from 1967
The other day, Gene Gable bought a 1967 publication of the Art Directors Club of Los Angeles. This was just one of the many award-winning entries he scanned for you:
Related Reading: I bet the graphic designers highlighted in this publication liked to drive around in one of these cars.
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TypeTalk: Hidden Secrets of InDesign’s Find/Change
There's no need to manually run multiple Find/Change searches to replace things like double word spaces and dumb quotes. Instead, let InDesign do it for you automatically! Ilene Strizver shows you how replacing straight quotes, for example, can be as simple as making a menu choice.
Related Reading: Do you use QuarkXPress, not InDesign? There's plenty for you here.
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Free For All: 100+ Free Fonts!
This installment of Pariah Burke's "Free for All" is actually a re-run. But unlike re-runs of, say, "The Facts of Life," you'll actually want to experience this again because it's all about free fonts.
Here's one of the typefaces in the article:
Related Reading: Download away! Just keep this in mind.
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Pantone Unveils Color of the Year for 2010
Blatner Tools 1.0 InDesign Plug-ins Released
New Telephoto Optics from Nikon
Update to Free Web Photo Gallery Creator
This week's podcast: The second installment of Jay Nelson's and Jeff Gamet's holiday gift guide
CreativePro.com Poll: If life were like "The Breakfast Club," how would you describe your high-school self?
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Bagels and Möbius strips have way more in common than you thought. Here's the proof.
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