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- andreasm
Judging design rather than content, what's amazing out there?
- Grid systems
- Typography
- Navigation
- Photography
- CSS / Javascript / jQuery goodiesI'm interested in the whole span from design blogs/mags (ie Thinking for a living) to full-on magazine gone online (ie Dazed and confused).
All/any links much appreciated.
- pillhead0
They all seem to be crap, I never did get the Try and make a Magazine experiance but online.
- moniker0
- or is this not the sort of thing you mean?moniker
- I think he meant more like online design journals that feel like mags.Continuity
- zaq0
- ThePublics0
you think Dazed and confused has a good design???
- Glitterati_Duane0
Not quite amazing yet. But definitely on their way
http://madburyclub.com/
- gramme0
Magazines online = nightmare. Slow loading, ham-fisted page-flipping effects, poor rendering, clunky.
Magazines thoughtfully designed for iPad (Wired, etc.) = the only way.Otherwise, just go with the blog format like TFAL.
It betrays a huge misunderstanding of the on-screen medium when publishers try to merely shoehorn their print magazine into a web browser. Makes me wonder how on earth Zinio is still in business.
- andreasm0
Ideally I'd like to find sites where there is a decent balance between graphic design and screen design. I do like some iPad magazines but in many ways they are merely "pdf viewers" in the sense that a lot of the interactive elements from the web are missing. They're not really solving any problems in my opinion.
I guess this is the challenge in the process; staying true to the brand whilst creating good (interactive) graphic design for online outputs. It has to look good on a big ass screen as well as an iPad or iPod or whatever.
I'm gathering some research right now, perhaps I can share some more direct ideas later. We did a lot of research for Vogue Italia, which I designed earlier this year (www.vogue.it). Conceptually I'm very happy with it, but when the system is taken over by the editorial team you automatically loose all control of the layout, and all "flaws" to the system become evident. Scary.
The fact that no one can mention an excellent site might be evidence enough that some work has to be done in this field :-)
And don't get me started on advertising....