Secrets & Happiness of Digital Publishing

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The New Yorker is now on iPad and iPhone

It’s not the first DPS magazine appearing on the iPhone, but it is the biggest title and one of the best DPS magazines out there.

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The team at Condé Nast around Scott Dadich made a great job transferring the longform experience to that smaller screen. NewYorker’s content adapts greatly to the new formfactor, and has all the features and more:

They introduced persistent objects that don’t move on screen and a drawer that appears on the bottom of the screen that you can tap-open and share your article from.

This is possible because The New Yorker is using HTML for most it’s articles, instead of creating them in InDesign originally.

They even made a great introduction video featuring Lena Dunham and Alex Kaporvsky. This short clip was written by Dunham and Produced by Dadich.

If you want to hear the New Yorker story in the corporate marketing voice of Adobe, watch this video.

Showcase: See how far you can get with a page turner and great design ideas

The people from Katachi Magazine made a great page turning magazine — but they have taken a serious step forward: offering new design principles and interaction ideas, the built a beautiful magazine, wich has live text and looks beautifully sharp on the new iPad.

Katachi Magazine is created exclusively for the iPad. There’s no print siblings to hold it back, no foster parents to relate to; only the tablet and the magazine.

They built the magazine using their own Origami Engine, wich might be available soon as a desktop application.

Definetly worth checking out: Katachi for iPad on the iTunes App Store

—Johannes

What Adobe wanted and planned for a digital magazine [historic]

You may have heard that Adobe was planning the DPS based on AIR (and comming from Flash) early in 2010, just between the announcement and the availability of the Apple iPad. (later Adobe had to drop the Air/Flash workflow and developed what we now know as the Digital Publishing Suite for InDesign).

In an old blog post and a video with Condé Nat from 2010 they demonstrated features they had planned for an iPad publishing system (screengrab above).

Particular interesting are the list of features Scott Dadich (executive editor of digital magazine development) and Jeremy Clark (Adobe Experience Design) are talking about after 1:55 minutes in the video:

— A more detailed scrubber

— Roch Social Features: Share articles with their friends, store them in their favourite’s bin, tweet about an article that you liked

In the viewer, there is a typical aA-button for changing text size and a search button.

You see some very interesting interaction models inside the articles, intelligent use of touch devices.

This video shows a prototype of what I very much like to see to be possible in magazines (and there are a few hints).

—Johannes

showcase: Keith Gilbert is talking about the U university of Daytona app →

This magazine app combines the DPS tools with nice design.

See Keith’s Post for the complete showcase.

Showcase Friday: persönlich — 75 Jahre WIRZ

The swiss communication magazine persönlich made a special issue for the 75th anniversary of corporate publishing and advertising agency WIRZ. Now, WIRZ corporate turned the special issue into an iPad edition.

WIRZ decided to make the portrait orientation focused on text and content and the landscape orientation more entertaining with fullscreen photography and videos.

The magazine is available in the app store.

Nice way to unlock a magazine: Audi Magazine Unlock (by AlmapBBDO)

via swipestudio

STROKE magazine

See what graphic designer Filipe Soares got out of the Adobe Digital Publishing Suite with a great visual style and navigation concept in his concept magazine STROKE.

He made this magazine as a conclusion project for college. Thumbs up, Filipe!

—Johannes

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by accident, I found out about the front end designer working on the Adobe Content Viewer: Aaron Shekey. He is an interactive designer and front end developer. His work is clear and straight — lovely!

—Johannes

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DONE available now for iPad and Android — for free!

my graduation project DONE — Explorations in Art, Crafts and Science is now available in the App Store for iPad and Android Market.

View 29 projects I did in during studying Applied Art and Design at FH Düsseldorf, between 2008 and 2011. You can pan through panoramas, cycle through time lapses with your finger, paint on the page and experience many other interactive elements throughout the magazine.

All projects can be commented and shared via Facebook, twitter and eMail. 

My magazine DONE is 2011 Max Awards Finalist in the category digital publishing. You can vote for it the week after Sept 27. Give me your voice to get a chance to win this award against Martha Stewart Living and Morris Lessmore. Will post details soon.

Watch a video or read more: www.donemag.cc
Become a fan on Facebook: facebook.com/DONEmag

Download it now for your iPad or Android Tablet for free and let me know what you think — or give it a review in the App Store!

Thank you.