L'iPad & Digital Magazines

Apple, you got me. I seriously want an iPad. For a long time I considered the iPad to be a large iPod Touch, which I own and am actually very happy with. So why do I want one now? Well obviously not because I want to spend long hours typing up emails and documents in iWorks on it. It's not a computer and I don't intend to use it like one. From what I've heard and have experienced so far, movies and photographs look pretty amazing on it but most of all it makes me read magazines the way I wanted to read magazines 10 years ago. These are simply things you can't really do well on an iPod Touch. I've found quite a few iPad apps for magazines that interest me so far, and they're really not as expensive as I though they would be, major plus. I can't wait to see what Conde Nast will come up with and what other, more niche and underground focussed magazines will do. Will I buy one now? I'm super tempted but I think I'm going to wait for the 2nd generation iPad. I don't really care about the highly anticipated camera everyone's banging on about, but I do want to be able to multitask and run flash on it. Also spending £429 on a mere 16 GB and NO 3G just isn't worth it.... or is it? Hmmm... Anyway, as for digital publications, digital magazine design is a whole different ballgame as opposed to printed magazine design. Typography, meta-data, photography, interactive elements; pretty much the whole lay-out needs to be reconsidered, it's simply a completely different way of story telling and I've recently come to the conclusion that digital magazine design&publication are fields I wouldn't mind working in either. In fact every time I find a new magazine/newsfeed related app my enthusiasm grows and makes me want to read more and more and more and etc. Am I turning my back on the good old running-to-the-bookshop-to-pick-up-THE-new-issue? Hell no, digital & print aren't comparing, in my opinion. But I'm a n00b and I only just jumped on the iPad fangirl bandwagon. I don't have the (technical) knowledge on it's possibilities, bugs and where this device fails to deliver (yet) and if there possibly is a product on the market that does a much better job but I'm learning and it's all very exciting. I've fallen in love. If you're interested in digital magazines (on/and) the iPad but can't be bothered to spend hours geeking out online doing research, then these clips might be of use to you: x    

Pentagram: 5 Ways the iPad Will Change Magazine Design

"This conceptual video is a corporate collaborative research project initiated by Bonnier R&D into the experience of reading magazines on handheld digital devices. It illustrates one possible vision for digital magazines in the near future, presented by our design partners at BERG (London)."

iPad magazine artdirection.


Digital magazine creation with Woodwing software.


The Guardian's Eyewitnessapp does a lovely job showing daily news photography. (And it's free.)


The Guardian's Eyewitnessapp explained.


Wired Magazine for iPad. I kinda fell in love with the iPad when I read this magazine on it.


Wired Magazine for iPad. Official trailer. Yumyum


iPad App Review - Zinio - Magazine reader


Time magazine for iPad.


Interview Magazine for iPad. Yay! Big fan of the printed version.


Letter to Jane Magazine for iPad. Hadn't heard of this magazine before, but it's looking sexy.

BNZLDN 100th post!! Whatever. Here's some more magazine stuff.

To those who know me well it's no secret. I love the 90's. I've always wanted to be 18 in 1994, when Hip Hop was still alive and Drum 'n Bass still pure, wobble free. Alas, I was 10. Not too young to notice what was going on out there, but not old enough to get infused with its flourishing rave culture and shellshocked by its changing cultural landscape either. The 90's imprinted its mark on me and pretty much shaped my creative interests into what they are today. Halfway through my teens I became a fervent magazine buyer. A habit which for some reason I picked up again in my early twenties. I remember still getting pocketmoney and spending it on zines on a monthly basis. My mum considered this a total waste of money and I always felt a little bad after she gave me the 'for god's sake child, save your money' lecture. But I kept buying them and (in this case) I'm happy I didn't really really listen to her. It's not like I was scoring crack, mother. So yesterday I found a box filled with magazines in a corridor. Awesome. What's even more awesome is that they're DazedConfused issues from the 90's. Yay! I would've been over the moon to get my hands on these back then but I didn't nearly have enough money to buy every magazine I wanted. But I'm equally chuffed now that I have them and probably appreciate them even more now that I look at them, filled with nostalgia.

DazedAndConfused 60
November 1999
Back cover
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Supplement ft. Gilles Peterson 


    

   

Dazed&Confused 35
October 1997
Special music issue.


Artists in first 3 images:


1. Goldie
2. Autechre, Aphex Twin, Nightmares on Wax, 
Squarepusher, Roni Size, Krust, Suu, Die, 
3. Adam F, Majic, Justice, Technical Itch, DJ Hype, DJ Zinc, Intense, DJ Pulse, Blame, Optical, Nico, Underwolves, Dom&Roland, Rob Playford, Aquasky, Dillinja, DJ Ron, Boymerang, Lemon D, Flytronix, Matrix.


HEART x INFINITE.

DazedAndConfused 61
November/December 1999/2000
End of the millennium / century issue

An editorial/graphic design internship in the heart of Amsterdam during the summer?

Sorted. 
x


(p.s. Yup, due to volcanic panic I'm still stuck in the motherland, I should be back next week. Thanks everyone for making my extended holiday in the Netherlands so much fun and eyeopening :)

Surprise! The subject of my dissertation will be the color black.

Love, actually. In a magazine.

Some time last year I got a msg from a friend who told me her friend Donald Milne needed an assistant for a London couples shoot. It was a last minute job and I'd never worked with him. With the wrong photographer / models a photoshoot can turn into a downright pain. But I decided to tag along anyway which I have absolutely no regrets about. It was funnest photo-assistant job evar so far which included learning some new tricks, getting fuckloads of free crisps and meeting some really nice people. Also being in the presence of these people and seeing them being genuinely fun, gentle and loving towards eachother - in the presence of others - without being sickeningly gross about it was quite a lovely happening in itself. :) I kinda forgot about this shoot untill yesterday, when someone mentioned how great the photos came out in the 'By The Way I Think That I Am in Love With You' article in this month's i-D's 'The Lovers of Life' issue. And to my surprise I was mentioned in there as the official photography assitent! (Yup, not assistent but 'assitent.') Ahw, I feel like someone just gave me a lovely little present, like a homemade heartshaped cupcake with my name written on it in cherryblossom pink glazing haha. :) x

Homework.

The lovely art direction brief is over, time a for a break. BNZL wishes Andreas Christie Ryalen all the best for his future projects! x

A selection of spreads from our little magazine project.

The September Issue.

An impressive documentary following editor-in-chief Anna Wintour & her team as they struggle to write Vogue's largest and heaviest number of all times (840 pages and almost 5 pounds). The viewer observes the complicated process through which everyone goes through while working for a fashion magazine. Viewers can also admire Grace Coddington, a former model that became a creative director after a car accident, while she passionately helps the magazine evolve and even stands up to some of Anna Wintour's ideas. Written by 'Anonymous' on www.imdb.com

I am not a fashion victim but I have always had a secret little crush on Anna Wintour. If you're an editorial (design) freak, definitely go/see/buy/download/rip this documentary.

Remedies.

So. Uni has started again and it's been timeconsuming and brainwrecking in the best way possible. Decision, decisions! I'm exhausted to the bone and like a lot of you I've had to overcome the horrendous autumn flu. These are some of the niceries that helped me get through it:

- Lots of glasses of hot water with slices of lemon, raw ginger and a scandalous fat chunk of set honey. The best immune system boosting and throat soothing elixir imo.

- Ofcourse oranges and punnets galore of whatever was on sale.
- 2 tubes of Bonjela.
- Lovely txts, BBM chats and e-cards.
- Definitely NOT running in skimpy trackshorts. *ahemstupid*

Audio/visual sexyness (click on images for more information)

- A stack of media including: 2 Lovers, Atonement, Brideshead Revisited, Perfume and new Dexter episodes.

- The new autumn&winter 2009 issues of:

The prospect of going to the highly anticipated ADE with friends: (oh come come come along if you can)

Jiggy Dje's:

Lucious feelgood London vibe supporting tunes like these:

Redlight - Feel So Good


Gracious K - Migraine Skank

Yann Arthus-Bertand's amazing Home Project
(watch it on the biggest screen you can find)

Thoughts of white beaches, clear seas, roots and this itinerary :)

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