Influx

Author Jonathan Franzen (The Corrections, Freedom) does not appear to have many positive things to say about technology, in fact, he’s something of a Luddite. In a recent talk given at the Hay Festival in Columbia, Franzen argues that e-books are bad for both the reader and the writer,...

Nick Carr has a great response to the buzz and attention surrounding Amazon’s new e-reader launches and points out a fact about the changed reading experience they want to bring about. “The video is something of a Rorschach test. A person of the web may see X-Ray as a glorious advance....

The two charts above show some interesting snapshots- the first looks at when users of Read It Later "save" their articles and the second shows when their iPad user base are reading the articles. While many might think reading is going the way of the Dodo, some recent data suggests that tablets and...

Traditional magazine art directors seem to love the iPad because it respects the classic rules of the grid and pagination. When we see examples of future concepts for tablets, most of the time they reference the physical magazine and just build interactivity around it. This is because the tablet is...

Great work from BERG (a UK design consultancy) that investigates the potential future for magazines. I like the way they acknowledge an understanding of the two forms of "reading"; one that's more visual and the other that's true reading. Mag+ from Bonnier on Vimeo.Posted by Ed Cotton

Most of the time creative competitions follow the typical blue sky approach to issuing a challenge; they don't tend to define parameters or any kind of real brief. Creatives then have the huge task of narrowing their thinking down to something meaningful and strategic. You see this a lot with...