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This Month’s Vogue Cover Comes To Life
In my travels around the web, I came across this little video. I’m afraid showstudio don’t provide an embed file, so you will have to visit their youtube. Strangely, I personally think it makes more sense as a little film than as a cover. Which even though it’s a fold out cover, feels a bit vague.…
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So That’s What It’s All About, Design coding
‘Nuff said as Stan Lee would say…. with thanks to the SEO Rapper, the lyrics follow…
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Developing a web design process at IPC Media
IPC has a well established redesign process for its magazines. I was asked by my manager Andy Cowles if we could apply this process to the redesign of an existing website. Together we discussed a number of options for how the magazine development process could be adapted to developing a website. Designing an experience that…
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Are Infographics taking over your world?
Recently I have been thinking about those illustrated ladybird books, and I have also treated myself to the an anthology of Eagle cutaways. I am too young to have seen the originals but they hold an amazing position at a moment when people felt technology and its development should be easily understood. Anyway now they…
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Am I making or designing?
Just had a discussion with my manager about the anxiety of modern fathers over the fact that the creative skills children are developing these days are to do with the intangible virtual interactions, whereas my youth was about making stuff, physical interactions.
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Jean-Paul Edwards talks to IPC about Media Futures
Jean-Paul Edwards from the agency Manning Gottlieb OMD spoke across a broad range of topics, giving a great overview of where he felt technology was taking the media market. The stand-out point I took from his speech was a metaphor he used about the fragmentation of the ‘media landscape’. He spoke of a ‘media landscape’ or ‘media ecosystem’…
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Why changing direction is so difficult for creative people?
How do you tell when you’ve become set in your creative direction? By this I mean the processes, skills, disciplines and behaviour that you employ to be creative. For example wireframe > look and feel > prototype > delivery. These may be some of the creative processes a web designer may use to see a…
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Push and Pull a new tug of war for old media
The notion of ‘push’ is when you push your content towards an audience who may or may not be aware of its existence. In a ‘pull’ environment the consumer pulls their content towards themselves because they are interested in it.
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WordPress: has its moment arrived?
Why is WordPress such a powerful tool? It was first released in May 2003 and has seen constant improvements resulting in it being on 2.6 since July 2008. It has become more and more relevant to a publishing company as the WordPress software has developed and is now able to support ‘magazine‘ themes. This has led…
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What I do all day
As a web designer I often wonder what other web designers get up to all day. So I thought the least I could do is share a day with my colleagues. To the best of my knowledge there are just under ten of us at IPC. In no particular order myself, Nadeem Akhtar, Andrew McManus,…
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