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01.18.12
Our company publishes a few local titles in a small market North of Orlando. It may sound trite, but we believe what we lack in budget and staff, we make up for with heart. And while we throw our hearts into every single story, some stories truly just have a lot of heart all by themselves. Such is the case with Nick Vujicic.… MORE
12.01.11
Katachi was born out of Texan BBQ. When the iPad launched in 2010 Ken Olling and Axel Haugan, founders of the company, were at SXSW, when the iPad was hailed as the saviour of all things publishing. It soon became clear that big publishers were looking to republish print content on the iPad, and that thinking was and still is completely wrong to us. Unhindered by any print skeletons we set out to create a truly interactive magazine but soon learned that the tools available just didn't cut it. So what started out as creating an interactive iPad-magazine grew into creating a state of the art publishing tool. We've made everything ourselves; the app, the design tool, the typeface, the content, the design.… MORE
We bring a lot of inspiration, respect and experience from print and web into publishing for the iPad. And as much as we love the two you simply can't translate either one to the tablet and expect it to work. One of the great things about creating our own tools is that it allows us to dream up completely new ways of doing editorials. We often discuss new stories and end up saying 'can we do that?'. Sometimes we can, sometimes we can't. But our developers implements features on the fly, allowing us to constantly push our ideas forward. The launch issue is content-heavy and explores loads of various ways of doing publishing on the iPad. Some, of course, works better than others. All our focus in the following issues is on creating engaging, iPad-specific content.
11.16.11
? We know. Inked's Creative Director Todd Weinberger, always ahead of the curve, tells us about the fashion shoot with Zombie Boy in their November issue:Normally I would not have profiled Zombie Boy were it not for his recent jump into the high fashion world, starring in Lady Gaga's "Born This Way" video and walking in Thierry Mugler's show this past winter. We're technically a "tattoo magazine" but I think of us more as a lifestyle magazine for people with tattoos. I decided that in honor of Halloween it would be very cool to shoot Zombie Boy and since our deadline coincided with fashion week, I knew he would be coming to NYC which would be easy on our limited production budget.Read how it all came together, and see the full-fashion zombified shoot, after the jump...
09.22.11
The theme for this year's annual "Masters of Design" issue was to focus on American Design, and one of the ideas was to commission select graphic designers to execute a Fast Company cover, with the subject and coverline being "The United States of Design". The only criteria for selecting the designers was that they weren't currently working at a magazine. You don't often get a chance to reach out to people like Paula Scher, Gail Anderson, and Carin Goldberg, but this seemed like a perfect project for three Hall of Fame designers. But we then also wanted at least one more of an alternative selection, someone who was not a designer. I've always been a huge fan of the commix work of Jayr Pulga. He's one of the original RAW Commix contributors, and wildly under-appreciated in my humble opinion. Jayr's beautiful drawing was a perfect compliment to the wonderful (and very different) designs that Carin, Gail and Paula did, and I hope people enjoy all four of them.See all four covers after the jump...
08.03.11
You've had their iconic yellow and black book on our shelves for years. Now it's available on your iPad. FontBook, from FontShop, contains over 620,000 typeface specimens from 110 type foundries. Use the FontBook app to look up and view fonts by name, style category, typographical subclassification, designer name, foundry name, year of publication, or by similarity of design. Compile your own list of favorite fonts, and use the "compare" tool to test-drive fonts.
05.23.11
Our plan for the redesign was to break away from iconographic photography and take a less-produced approach to the shoots. In the past, we deliberately planned shoots with a single rider and low, flat vistas, with loads of blue sky. The cyclist's speed was controlled so that lighting was optimized and blur was virtually non-existent.With the redesign, we want to embrace the motion and the environment. Foul weather, high tree lines or low sunlight won't necessarily disqualify a shoot from being worthy and therefore attempted. Additional lighting, if any, will be a challenge in that our goal is to have the appearance of only natural light but our hope is that result will be a more "outdoorsy" feel to the cover and interior photos.
04.19.11
You get an email saying that Fred Woodward would like to show you the new GQ iPad app that's about to launch. What do you do other than say "I'll be up there faster that you can spell "Galifianakis"?
