Mark Porter

Last night the EDO and BSME collaborated on a panel discussion about digital publishing platforms, and – inevitably – the ipad in particular. Read the rest of this entry »

…an interesting response to the app here. This is touching on something I’ve been thinking about a lot lately; high-resolution screens and touch-screen interfaces are starting to open up a new way of engaing with content which is not the same as web or print, but might — just might — give us the best of both worlds one day.

New website from New Statesman, to go with Esterson Associates’ recent redesign of the magazine. Use of grid and vertical column of picture trails (or pixies as we call them at Guardian Towers) on the front is very guardianesque, I think

While I was in Italy putting Internazionale to bed, the Tages Anzeiger (the other main Zurich paper) launched their redesign, hot on the heels of their main rivals, the NZZ. Read the rest of this entry »

Still struggling with broken limbs but hope to be posting more again over the next few weeks.

In the meantime, someone’s put a lot of work into this spoof of the FT website for theG20 summit. Theres also a print edition (you can download a PDF here). And there’s more coverage here.

(Thanks John-Henry)

An interesting new development on the NYT site; probably best to read Khoi Vinh’s explanation before diving in. Read the rest of this entry »

After the recent print relaunch under editor directors Glenn O’Brien and Fabien Baron, Interview magazine got a new website earlier this week. Read the rest of this entry »

I’m loving this special issue from French Elle designed by Non-Format. I think there may have been others but this is the first I’ve seen. The digital version is plagued by several things I really hate (turn-the-page online magazine format, over-the-top flash, etc etc etc), but I can’t help finding it pretty cool against my better judgement…

(Update: more info about this project on the Creative Review blog).

Not before time, the FT website is being redesigned:

Do I detect a Guardian influence here too? Or am I just seeing that everywhere now?

Tina Brown’s new endeavour The Daily Beast is now up. It’s basically a news aggregator, but with a strong editorial slant (or as TB puts it, “sensibility, darling”). It’s also the first web product from one of the most distinguished magazine editors around. Read the rest of this entry »