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Big Up Cover Illustration by Saad Moosajee

abduzeedo — Mon, 14 May 2012 04:50:07 +0000

Monday is our tutorial day. We try to post tutorials every Monday showing how to create some nice effects or compositions we like. Today is not different, but instead of a tutorial we have a really nice case study by Saad Moosajee. It is an image created for the cover of the Big Up magazine.

Saad is a great contributor to the blog, always sharing beautiful wallpaper with us. Now we will be able to see how he created the beautiful Big Up Cover Magazine

Big Up Cover Magazine

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For more information visit http://saadart.com/

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Retro Mag Covers by OMNI Magazine

AoiroStudio — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 17:51:10 +0000

The world of Science of Fiction is a universe that will never cease to inspire and feed my creativity. Let me share with you guys this retro collection of magazine covers, from the 1980s to the mid 1990s, of the science and science fiction magazine named OMNI.

OMNI was launched by Kathy Keeton, long-time companion and later wife of Penthouse magazine publisher Bob Guccione, who described the magazine in its first issue as "an original if not controversial mixture of science fact, fiction, fantasy and the paranormal". OMNI (Magazine) on Wikipedia

For more information about the OMNI magazine, you can visit their website at OmniMagOnline.com.

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My name's François Hoang and my alias's Aoiro Studio. I am a self-taught freelance graphic designer from Montreal, Canada. I've been designing for the last 4 years and really have a huge passion for creative work that makes a difference in our world. If you wanna requests some posts; I can be found on Twitter or feel free to contact me.

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UI Design: Aside Magazine

PauloGabriel — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 13:24:39 +0000

I don't see these posts about UI Design as a regular series, but much more like the possibility to share some amazing design pieces whenever we run into them, just like the Aside Magazine.

This magazine was done entirely using HTML5, which is pretty awesome. I'd love to see some other apps / magazines made just like this one. If you know any, share with us! The Aside Magazine was made by designers Nico Engelhardt and Johannes Ippen. To check a cool video about this, check out the Behance page and don't forget to visit their portfolios. I hope you enjoy this! Cheers. ;)

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Hello, everyone! I'm Paulo Gabriel, designer from Porto Alegre, Brazil, born in 1984. I have worked as a webdesigner since 2006, but websites and blogs have been a hobby for me since 1999. Here in Abduzeedo, I try to bring only the hot stuff for you... and hope that all of you enjoy my posts! For more cool stuff, you may also follow me on Twitter.

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80 Retro Jauna Gaita Magazine Covers

amanda — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 12:49:11 +0000

I came across the awesome covers of Jauna Gaita magazine the other day. There was a post here on Abduzeedo about it a year ago to celebrate the Latvian magazine's 53 year anniversary. Today I wanted to show you a more extensive collection of the covers.

The covers span from the 1950s to present and it's amazing to me how they've managed to stay true to the same retro style today as they did 50 years ago. I found these on Mikus Vanags' Flickr, I'm not sure if he's the original artist or not, but either way, check out Jauna Gaita's site and let me know what you think via twitter or facebook!

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Amanda Macedo is a designer and blogger by passion and profession. Living and working out of her backpack, she can now be found in San Francisco, CA, biking, writing, dancing, and tweeting .

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Designers Must-Know: Emigre magazine

abduzeedo — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 13:37:09 +0000

One of the greatest influences on Desktop Publishing was without doubt the Emigre Magazine. It was first published back in the 80's, more precisely in 1984, in the very beginning of computers, and lasted for over 2 decades, having its last issue in 2005. The primary goal of the magazine was to promote the typefaces created by Zuzana Licko, but ended up being a sort of icon to modern typography and desktop publishing because it was one of the first publications to use Machintosh computers.. I remember back in college how admired the Emigre Magazine was.

Emigre magazine was published between 1984 and 2005. A total of 69 issues were produced, sometimes on a quarterly basis, but more often irregularly. Issues #1 through #63 were published and distributed by Emigre, Inc. Issues #64 through #69 were co-published and distributed by Princeton Architectural Press, New York.

Collections

Emigre magazine is in the permanent design collections of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York, the Design Museum in London, and the Denver Art Museum.

Emigre Website

It's really cool to see how the DTP has changed over the years, even though we've been living a transition seeing the end of important magazines and newspapers, it's very important to know and learn from great examples, and the Emigre was one of the greatest.

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The future of magazines

Francisco — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 18:41:19 +0000

Some of you may have already seen the news about the new issue of Esquire magazine containing E-ink on the cover. Computer Love posted something about it. I saw it on the news this morning. I'm definitely going to run to the newsstands today after work to check it out in person. (video of the Esquire cover at the very bottom of this post)

This got me thinking about the future of magazines. I've often heard that eventually print will be "dead." I don't believe that, but I do think mass marketed items like newspapers and magazines will definitely change in the near future. Personally I think that E-ink is awesome and will just get better and better. If you've ever seen the movie Minority Report then you might remember how the newspapers people were reading had moving type and pictures all over it. I think that could be close to what our future print will look like.

Here's one product that will be available in the Fall of 2009 that is one step closer to "the future". It's basically a bigger e-book reader to replace magazines. Since it's E-ink based it's probably only black & white. I can't wait for color E-ink. It's two biggest selling points (for me) is that it is the size and thickness of a magazine, and that it is flexible. All it needs is for the E-ink technology to get better and I might just buy one.

Here's the next generation of e-reader, taking the same E Ink tech used in the Amazon Kindle and Sony Reader to the next level. Made by Plastic Logic, this flexible (but not foldable) electronic newspaper is the size of a regular 8.5x11" sheet of copier paper, making it 2.5 times larger than a Kindle, but weighs a mere two ounces more and is a third as thick. It'll have a wireless connection for quick updating, a gestural interface compatible with Microsoft Office and Adobe PDF documents, and a battery whose life will last "days, not hours," according to its creators.

(via DVICE)

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53 Years of Jauna Gaita Magazine

PauloGabriel — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 14:44:06 +0000

This is probably greatest source of vintage inspiration in the web. If you never heard about it before, listen up! It's the Jauna Gaita magazine.

In 2008, the Latvian magazine, Jauna Gaita (which literally means The New Course), is turning 53 Years old and it's great to see how an old magazine managed to stay fresh and young for such a long time! Iso50 also recommends it!