I know! It’s an advertisement, I don’t care :) I still think it’s great!
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i believe
Apologies for the flash, but I just had to share this illustration I found on odosketch, a website that allows you to create and save sketches, and also view the ‘making of’ sketches from others.
Watching how someone else has created an illustration, the different style and techniques, is something else. It’s hypnotic, adictive, take a look!
1 000 fps
I think this is extraordinary! It feels hypnotic and relaxing.
So much of movement is invisible to the human eye. Sure, our eyes can see a cymbal move when struck by a drum stick. But it’s what our eyes can’t see that is most captivating. Metal rippling as if it were fabric fluttering in the wind, droplets of water bouncing and hovering just above the surface of a puddle; the beauty and science of movement is in the details. And the details are often the result of vibrations. -Fluke
disappointment forgotten!
You might remember how irritated I was when the Vogue Knitting Magazine app for the iPad was released but was only available to US residents (however failed to mention this in their email announcement)?
I’m very pleased that after receiving another email announcing the app last week I checked again and woo! available to all! I’m even more pleased that they have done a decent job in digitising the magazine (it hasn’t been redesigned specifically for digital viewing), the quality of the pages are very good.
It is a pity that the 360° views are loaded from the Vogue website, they’re helpful and a necessary addition to a digital edition of a magazine. For wifi only iPad users such as myself viewing this away from known networks it was a bit disappointing – I’ve given up hope that QLD Rail will ever install their often talked about wifi network.
There is also no option to print a pattern from the magazine, so I will need to take screen shots and print the pattern pages. I don’t know about you, but I scribble and make notes all over knitting patterns :)
Now for some pretty screen shots!
Again I have to say, what makes this digital magazine release an absolute winner for me is that they have created their own application to easily download and organise magazines. I know many companies aren’t doing this because they take issue with the Apple iTunes system and the method of approving apps etc… but it’s my preference and if a magazine is offering their editions this way I’ll download them.
Do you have an iPad? If you tried any magazine apps that you’d recommend, or even just read about one, drop me a line I’d love to hear about some new ones!
future of magazines
This post was going to be more about house hunting and my new style board over at Pinterest, but really I think I want to share how much I love the direction digital magazine publishing is taking – mainly thanks to tablet devices such as the iPad.
Martha Stewart Living is a perfect example of publishers and designers harnessing the potential of digital issues of their magazine – it’s full of interactive features, video, sound, panoramic images and external links. What grabbed me right away is not only the great quality of images but the structure of the pages: scroll down through a story, flick to the right to the next article, jump to the bottom of a story for this recipe and then easily return to the point of the story you were up to. It’s very well done :)
I’m just testing an app that offers many magazines through it’s service, Zinio, I’m off to a rocky start with it due to a special National Geographic price download offer that was rejected at the final checkout due to the fact it is only valid for US subscribers – but it certainly has a large variety of magazines on offer.
I like that the Martha Stewart Living app is focussed just on their magazine and the experience is tailored just for them, already downloading the next issue :)
