29 Jun 2011 11 am eastern

Print in Digital Clothing

The iPad was supposed to be the saviour of magazines, but so far, most magazine apps have been “same same, but digital.” Sparksheet Creative Director Charles Lim argues it’s time for designers to shed their print shackles and think digital first.

via Print in Digital Clothing: The Problem with Magazine Apps | Sparksheet.

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7 Responses to “Print in Digital Clothing”

  1. Colin said on 29 June 2011 at 8:17 pm:

    I couldn’t agree more. I work at a place where people send emails office-wide to make meeting appointments! The receiver then copies the details and pastes them into his/her Outlook calendar.

  2. Michael Critz said on 30 June 2011 at 2:33 am:

    The magazine is the same. However, there are some really great apps that present information as a magazine better than any single publishing source could. Notably Flipboard and Zite.

  3. Evan Skuthorpe said on 30 June 2011 at 5:48 am:

    the print is dead! long live the print!

  4. Adam Fairhead said on 30 June 2011 at 5:53 pm:

    For magazines, print has gone from essential to novelty. Web has gone from novelty to essential.

    The sooner these print designers refine their trade the better. Flipboard is a shining example. I’m excited to see this trend evolve!

  5. J David Eisenberg said on 4 July 2011 at 1:50 am:

    Agreed. Just did a trial subscription to National Geographic Traveler on my color nook. It simply does not permit itself to be read. No search function that I can see, and if you use “article view” you just get the raw, unformatted text.

    Implementing magazines on tablets correctly would require the design instincts of someone like, say, Jeffrey Zeldman.

  6. maja thomas said on 5 July 2011 at 12:46 pm:

    Points well taken, but I feel like I read a version of this everyday: “this is what you are doing wrong” and “I don’t have any concrete examples of doing it right.”

    Wired, The Daily, The New Yorker–all Fail. But what can we look at that gets it right?

  7. Onyx Solution said on 2 August 2011 at 6:05 pm:

    As a Web Designer I do a lot more reading now on my ipad, but I still read more on paper, I hope one day the ipad would be as easy to read as the kendle…

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