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• Commented on Cool Nerds Go Negative
  Thanks Grant. Check out the WIRED ipad post, just updated with background from Scott Dadich....
• Posted Dueling Covers on the iPad to Grids
  No matter how you tilt the iPad, as publication designers, the workload has increased. When it comes to covers, back in the old days (8 months ago) you "only" had to ship a newsstand and subscriber cover. Nowadays, add a...
• Commented on The New York Times Hits a Grand Slam with Flex
  And for the Shark Week geeks out there: You cant beat slow motion sharks jumping in the air: http://tinyurl.com/26txp53...
• Commented on ASME announces best magazine cover contest finalists!
  And sadly, these two TRUE BLOOD covers will have to wait it out till next year: http://www.spd.org/2010/08/face-off-true-blood-covers.php...
• Commented on Typomag: A design library must-have
  Well, this post just cost me $17.96. Great find!...
• Commented on Face-Off: "True Blood" Covers
  Someone had fun with Photoshop.... http://coverawards.com/2010/08/19/rolling-stone-true-blood-cover-pre-photoshop/...
• Commented on Web Fonts Take The Next Step
  Their FontFonter tool where you can do a live font-switch on any web site is amazing! Adding to the above list. Thanks for the link....
• Posted Web Fonts Take The Next Step to Grids
  The Roger Black empire grows by one more company: going live today is Webtype--a partnership with The Font Bureau, Ascender, Petr van Blokland, and DevBridge.This new company's goal is to provide quality typography for websites. In the past, for live, searchable,...
• Commented on Face-Off: "True Blood" Covers
  C'mon...! where's the blood!!! Seriously, nice covers....
• Favorited Mark Seliger: He Always Gets His Picture on Grids
• Posted Face-Off: "True Blood" Covers to Grids
  The buzz-worthy HBO series "True Blood" covers this week's issue of Rolling Stone along with a recent issue of Entertainment Weekly. Which gets it bloody better?...
• Commented on New York magazine vs. The Social Network: An 'Inspired' Poster?
  Keller has done some nice work, and based on their DVD cover for "The Man Who Fell To Earth", nice big image and type are in their wheel house. Not saying Hollywood does not make great posters—The American is pretty...
• Commented on New York magazine vs. The Social Network: An 'Inspired' Poster?
  When was the last time Hollywood has been accused of being ORIGINAL? Hell, I'm impressed anytime they crank out a movie poster that doesn't feature Trajan! http://www.flickr.com/groups/trajanfilmposter/pool/...
• Commented on Arthur Hochstein's 15 Favorite Time Magazine Covers
  Great collection! Now I want to see the 5 covers that makes Arthur cringe--and why!...
• Commented on George Clooney, Anton Corbijn and 'The American'
  Updated with a new video: Anton Corbijn and others talk about 'The American. Plus a few of his photos from making the movie....
• Commented on 10 Essential iPad Apps for Publication Designers
  About fonts: Talk to your developer. The good news is that mobile Safari (iPhone and iPad) allow for web fonts, the bad news is they only allow for "SVG" versions, which I hear are a large download. With these web...
• Commented on Runner's World
  Runner's World introduces its digital edition for the iPad... http://tinyurl.com/runnersworldforipad...
• Posted Covering Google to Grids
  Fortune magazine hits newsstands and debuts on the iPad with a bold question: Is Google Over? If so, what a wild ride its been since Stanford computer science grad students Larry Page and Sergey Brin began collaborating on a search engine in...
• Commented on Another "Inspiration?" Cover
  Wow! I want to know sales data on "Cheap Eats" vs "Eat Cheap"...
• Commented on 10 Essential iPad Apps for Publication Designers
  Flipboard is a MUST DOWNLOAD for the iPad. Its an amazing aggregator of content with great social media integration. This is the app to look at when a print pub is ready to forgo re-formatting print pages (Wired, TIME, SI,...
• Posted Saturday 7/24: Get Out Your Videocamera to Grids
  Time to bust out your flip cams! Tomorrow, Saturday July 24th an amazing documentary film experiment will take place and ultimately premiere at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival. Here is an excerpt from LIFE IN A DAY:Life In A Day...
• Commented on NY Mag's Eat Cheap 2010: Splitsville
  GQ went with multi-cover for their "134th Annual" Comedy Issue. Covers all around for Tracey Morgan, Paul Rudd and Zach Galifianakis... http://tinyurl.com/GQ-comedy...
• Commented on Sports Illustrated "Appreciates" a Time cover
  Never knew there were that many fans of 1981's "The Incredible Shrinking Woman" http://tinyurl.com/shrinkingwoman...
• Commented on Inspiration, or.....???
  Ouch!...
• Posted Obama Reqested Signed Copy of New Yorker Cover to Grids
  David Remnick, editor of The New Yorker, is reporting that the White House asked for a signed copy of the February 1, 2010 cover showing a Barry Blitt illustration of President Obama walking on water--and then falling in.There was no...
• Commented on Mag App: Gourmet Live
  I definitely like the notion of keeping multiple issues in one app vs downloading a new app each week/month....
• Posted Mag App: Gourmet Live to Grids
  Gourmet is getting a new lease on life with Gourmet Live--a highly interactive app for all the foodies out there. This app looks like its coming in on the "reinvention" side of the reformat vs. reinvent question. They also have a...
• Posted George Clooney, Anton Corbijn and 'The American' to Grids
  While the 2010 summer movie season has been shaky at best, here's something to look forward to in the Fall: The American. Photographer Anton Corbijn get in the directors seat for this thriller set in Italy. Watch the trailer after the...
• Posted It's Beach Season! to Grids
  Time to hit the beach or the gym? Enjoy the weekend!...
• Posted Mag App: TIME Magazine v2.0 to Grids
  Min online is reporting on TIME magazine's upcoming update to their current fairly straightforward print-to-tablet reformat iPad app. Min's post is worth a read, and after the jump watch an updated SPD-exclusive video demo of their new app which is to...