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Tabbloid news

December 2, 2008 in Clever ideas, technology | 1 comment

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.

The wisdom of clouds

June 22, 2008 in Clever ideas | 7 comments

UPDATE: There’s an interview with MagCloud’s creators here.

Paper is a strange beast. Environmentally suspect, over time it yellows, turns brittle, starts to smell a bit musty. The colours never shine as well as they do on the screen, it tears, it creases, it’s heavy to store and rapidly decreases in value. And it’s still a vital part of our culture.

One of the reasons that paper endures, despite the naysaying of digivangelists, is that printing technology has continued to evolve alongside the rise of the virtual. Most of these changes aren’t noticeable to the majority of end consumers – glossier recycled paper, soft proofing, better colour management. Others are quite clearly advances that I can explain to my mother in one sentence, and she’ll understand why that’s clever.

Such as: “Anyone can make their own magazines for free.” Enter MagCloud, a new print-on-demand website dedicated to magazines. Read the rest of this entry »