bye bye create online
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- thosethat0
i hear the magazine closed because they spent too much money on spot varnish on the covers...
um...
- paulsmith0
The novelty value of CreateOnline wore after about three issues of my subscription. I eventually dropped my subscription when they stopped having cover discs. please take note future publishing: NOT EVERYONE HAS BROADBAND.
- unknown0
I think it also showed how throw away some web stuff can be... and doesn't warrant cutting down a tree for.
- paulsmith0
Well Said Engage.
- timA0
I did used to look forward to that shiny cover every month though.... Now I'm getting nostalgic.
And the cover disc should never have gone...
Did anyone else have the joys of cancelling their subscription:
"This is your final final final final final final final final final final final final final final chance to resubscribe to Create Online"
I almost caved...
- unknown0
sniff sniff!!!! Oh well... back to 'Big Ones Monthly' I guess!
- modulate0
I'm glad create online tanked. I thought it was a poorly done magazine.
was approaching web design as this cool rockstar thing.
the design didn't really impress. all eye candy.
- ahutch0
anybody rate creative review?
- timA0
Creative Review makes Create Online look like very good value for money.
- ahutch0
does anyone recommend any other titles that are worth the money?
- timA0
I guess all these mags are pretty specialist so demand a pretty high price tag... Create Online did have some content at times...some of the others are just ads.
- unknown0
Graphics international create online are my mags of choice...
and razzle of course
- exador0
in its heyday, i thought createonline was a kickass magazine...
sure, it was a tad pricey here in canada, but it had what i thought was perfect content for us..
and actually, i think i liked it for all the same reasons that modulate (see above me in this thread) hated it...
i thought it was kind of cool to see the rock-star mentality applied to web-designers....
much in the same way that wired magazine made coders and tech's into 'geek-cool'...
i enjoyed the eyecandy for what it was, and liked reading the opinions of some of the creatives they interviewed....and besides...
the firs issue i ever bought had a screen capture for some concert in the UK, and it had the 'virtuetv' logo i created...
which i thought was pretty cool...
- timA0
That's the thing exador... If I'd have been in it too, I think I'd want it to stay...as would most of us I reckon.
It didn't kind of glorify web design's beautiful people though didn't it.
- timA0
I meant it did kind of glorify web design's beautiful people.
- exador0
hahah..
cheers timAi was hardly 'in' it...much as would have loved to be...
a friend of mine is pretty highly placed at virtuetv (virtuecast in canada-now startcast) anyhow, over a beer one night he asked if i'd have a go at their logos, and icons...
so, for the price of a few beers i redesigned the logo..
and it ended up getting printed in createonline...
not to showcase me or anthing..more to showcase the site of the band that was haveing a concert on the web...and there was my logo,
which, since it was a UK magazine, and here i am in canada...well...i thought it was pretty cool...but, sadly...no create online interview, no scads of press at my door asking how it felt to be part of the design elete...
no call from toke and mschmidt to see if i wanted to come down to san-fran and hang out...
:(ahh well....
- timA0
That's a cool story Exador... But I'd still say you were famous in your own way... You can hold onto that moment for the rest of your life...
I remember the 1st ever issue of it had a girl who used to be on my course at uni featured...as the 1st ever featured person I think from Deepend... Back when they published real rockstar type photos that were massive.
I was SO jealous, in a lame and embarrassing way...
Grr....
- mitsu0
my reason for liking create online: it was the only friggin design mag my barnes and noble carried... now i have none!
bastiges!
- exador0
cheers man...
:)atleast you're in the UK tho...
which means there was always a chance you'd get in....every month i'd look at that map they'd print and think..
WTF?
do they think theres nothing going on in toronto?you'd see stuff about one or two of the top guys...but thats about it..
they seemed to just avoid toronto like the plague...and regarding that girl from the 1st issue..
i feel it man...i would've felt the same way...
1st you think..'hey..i know her!'
then 2nd is 'hey..what the hell, why is it her on the cover, and not me...im a better designer...'
totally natural...
i ran into this one dude from college back in my 1st year in design...
never liked the guy...too high on himself..
but it had been a year since i'd seen him and we were catching up, and he asked what i was up to, and i told him i'd finally gotten a gig at a small ad agency...
oh...thats nice he says..
he then told me he'd gotten a job right out of college at this prestigious design firm..for a second, i just had this uncontrollable urge to hit him in the face..
;)i mean..cool...he got a gig..
but damn..
i worked my ass off, and this pretty boy just seemed to get things handed to him on a silver platter..oh well..
'he' never got in createonline...
;)
- matt250
it cost to much - It was about $20 here in canada and most of the stuff in it you could find on the web for free