Last night I chaired another Clever Boxer event at Soho House. This one was on the 'Future of Books', and we were privileged to have two excellent speakers. Max Whitby is CEO of Touch Press, who are leading the field in ...Read More
The magazine circulation figures were out yesterday. Fairly gloomy for lots of publishers, but one new addition this time is the audited figures for tablet editions. Journalism.co.uk has a round-up of figures for the second half of 2011 here. It's the first ...Read More
As Clever Boxer, we're running a series of events at the V&A around different aspects of the creative industries, all spinning off their excellent Power of Making exhibition. The first event was entitled 'Dead Wood: The Future of Magazines', and as ...Read More
The results are out for the Digital Magazine Awards 2011, and Condé Nast's iPad apps had an excellent showing. WIRED picked up Magazine of the Year for it's iPad edition. Having worked on WIRED from the launch of its first edition last ...Read More
The December edition of British Vogue has arrived on the iPad. Vogue had released two previous apps (both bespoke coded), but this is their first using the Adobe Digital Publishing Suite. It's packed with beautifully shot videos, interactive photos, and clever moving ...Read More
I've written a piece for the latest issue of Lost in London magazine on green roofs and the entertaining and passionate campaigner Dusty Gedge. Lost in London is a beautifully designed and print quarterly print mag, and I was grateful for ...Read More
The Condé Nast iPad roll-out continues. WIRED, GQ and Vanity Fair are all now producing monthly iPad editions. The good news is that we also rebuilt our apps in time to be included in Apple's Newsstand on launch day. Newsstand is good ...Read More
On the weekend of 13-14th August, as part of the Power and Production weekend at the Southbank Centre, a group of writers, editors, designers, photographers and illustrators got together to produce an entire magazine in 48 hours. I went along ...Read More
As part of our ongoing Trashed project, I've spent the last three weeks helping to deliver the Devcamp app-building courses at Rich Mix. The impetus for the courses came from Joe Cohen, CEO of Seatwave, and they ran as part of ...Read More
The rollout of Condé Nast UK's tablet editions continues – I'm iPad Projects Manager for the new titles. WIRED is now monthly, Vanity Fair and GQ are imminently monthly, and Vogue is in the pipeline. All the digital editions are being produced ...Read More