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This morning via FedEx I received something that could be significant – a special edition of the new issue of Clear, created for Design Miami. And it’s 100% Tree Free.
It feels and looks like a normal print magazine, but it’s not made from paper at all. This is the world’s first pulpless printed magazine, produced on premium synthetic paper by YUPO – a kind of polypropylene plastic already used for detergent labels, maps and menus.
How is it? Mighty strange.
Interesting new development from the HP labs: Tabbloid, a free way of creating regular PDFs from your favourite RSS feeds. The basic template isn’t bad, all things considered – a clear two-column grid that reproduces both the images and all of the text (depending on your feed), unlike the vaguely unsatisfying Print Screen Print demo featured on Boicozine recently.
I’m not sure if it comes from the same HP limb as its POD magazine service MagCloud, but there’s definitely potential for a crossover there.
Speaking of grids, here’s a bonus link of designy usefulness via the wise words of Mark Porter.
