How does a brand’s print media influence online consumer behavior?

Mapenvelope is a simple web application created by Beste Miray, a graphic designer based in Istanbul.

What should a modern newsroom look like?

Street Artist Posterchild and Jason Eppink have created “after parties” for print inside newspaper boxes.

Moofus is a twelve year old artist from Sydney. Too young to get a “real job”, Moofus began selling his prints for charity.

The other day, we highlighted some of the ways that magazines are diversifying their business models to remain both relevant and solvent as more and more of their audience moves online. We suspect (and hope) that print and by extension, traditional storytelling will always have its place, but there is clearly a shift towards multimedia narratives – combining video, audio and other interactive features – taking place as more publications bolster their reporting with additional content available online.
While this trend is most noticeable among print magazines that are attempting t0 adapt their product to the web, there are also a [...]

With the internet taking a significant amount of its readership and the recession impacting physical sales, running a profitable print publication these days is becoming even more of a daunting proposition. But despite these struggles, many magazines are finding new opportunities outside of the printed page, diversifying their business model with alternative revenue streams. Advertising Age recently surveyed five such publications, representing diverse cross-section of the entire industry  - Men’s Health, Make, The Atlantic, Complex and Fader – to find out what their outlook is going forward.
While advertising, both print and digital, remains an integral component of the revenue mix, [...]

Perhaps the most ironic newspaper death in recent memory, the business-cum-media experiment Printed Blog will go the way of so many of its peers after sixteen issues, shuttering permanently. The Printed Blog’s founder, Joshua Karp, hoped that tightly-localized content provided by neighborhood bloggers would draw advertisers hoping to reach specific demographics—mimicking the (relative) success of smaller papers in the wake of the general death throes of print journalism. In the end, the hope that people would turn out to pay for a physical copy of the same content they could get online for free failed to materialize, as did any [...]

Rob Matthews has created a hefty physical version of Wikipedia’s featured articles. The 2,559 digital articles have been transformed into a massive, 5,000 page hardbound book that looks to be around 2 feet tall. Though thoroughly impractical, the project beautifully illustrates the usefulness of digital information.
[via Spreading Jam]

Print  is no longer the default medium according to the latest edition  of the Modern Language Association’s handbook for academic citation.  The MLA’s style bible for research paper writers has incorporated many changes that point to the ongoing cultural shift away from the printed word.
This seventh edition says “that the medium of publication should be included in each works cited entry” rather than assuming it’s print.  The MLA has also decided to eliminate specific URLs in citations, claiming they often are session specific, or too long. Searching for titles or authors is suggested instead. Keeping with the web-centric view of [...]

For 3 days in May, Portugal will be the center of the post-digital world, playing host to the 8th annual OFFF Festival. The event celebrates new visual culture with its 2009 theme: “This isn’t flying, this is falling with style – fall gracefully @ OFFF”. The showcase of top digital artists, web, print and interactive designers, motion graphics studios, and musical acts offers insight into the newest media platforms and what’s yet to come.
In addition to a main stage with presentations from artists and collectives, the OFFF Festival will feature live electronic music performances, a showplace of immersive digital arts [...]

There is so much serious, snooty editorial about fashion, we always appreciate when Vice comes out with its Fashion issue. Their most recent is no different. From the interview which hails Kai Kühne as a renegade fashion star before getting him to admit that he doesn’t understand fashion, to the article which claims in all seriousness that epaulettes (those ornament-like shoulder accessories on army uniforms) are the future of fashion, to the amazing cover featuring a wild pig (see above), the whole thing is a breath of fresh air.
Vice Magazine: The Fashion Issue 2009

Even though newspapers are arguably more popular than ever before, instead of seeing higher profits, the reality is they’re earning less – a fact that is leading to industry wide buyouts, reductions in staff and in some cases, permanent closures.  The current model of how newspapers operate is clearly broken and the biggest contributing factor, might be us.
During the ongoing transition from print to online, we’ve come to expect the same amount and quality of content we’re accustomed to, only now we want it for free.  A bitter pill that traditional media outlets have been able to swallow in the [...]