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Magazine 2.0? Can the iPad replace printed magazines

Shell — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 18:20:52 +0000

There’s no doubt that the iPad is a superb delivery device for magazines, books, and browsing the net. Magazines in particular work really well in this new format. The large uncluttered screen allows for well designed magazine layouts, without limitation in typography or illustration, and introduces a whole new dimension of interactivity.

However, there is a downside to this. As yet, there is no common, more efficient delivery method. Unlike books, which can be purchased and downloaded through either Apples’ iBooks app or Amazons’ Kindle, each magazine packages their own downloader — and those downloads can be huge. There are only so many 500Mb issues of Wired that you can fit even on the largest iPad.

We’re almost there, and this is definitely the device to take us there!

Cost of the device – iPads are clearly prohibitively expensive for the majority of folks, limiting the market
Only a handful of truly interactive Magazines, such as Wired
Delivery format: current crop of interactive magazines are very large in size, filling up a lot of space on the iPad

BiteSizedJapan Holiday Preview!

Shell — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 20:13:56 +0000

I’m still not totally happy with our Kameko designs, but there are so many distractions (especially at this time of year!). Sadly our Christmas card project became a bit of a rush-job at the end, but finally we have something online!

http://www.bitesizedjapan.com

Background

Shell — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 20:56:33 +0000

A couple of first-passes of place-holder backgrounds for the BiteSizedJapan twitter account (@bitesizedjapan). I’m not happy with these yet, but it’s better than nothing… Featuring, as ever, our hostess Kameko and some of the branding carried across from the layouts.

Creative Review & cutting out skills

Shell — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 13:29:30 +0000

Cutting out skills FTW… This months’ Creative Review has Christmas Tree packing that cuts out to make a decoration… well if you have any scissor skills…

Kameko preview

Shell — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:47:14 +0000

Another week, and Misa-misa (AKA Vixen) has modified Kameko for BiteSizedJapan. She’s looking cuter each version!

Christmas Branding

Shell — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:17:57 +0000

I’m not quite sure whoever decided this branding would be a good idea or not hadn’t been at the Christmas booze a bit early this year themselves:

Seriously?