10 Zen Tips for Mastering User Interfaces
How to Quickly Adjust to Navigation Changes in a Cloud-based Program by Sandy Hubbard, Print Futurist Does this sound familiar? You log into your social media platform, web-to-print portal, contact management system, or any subscription-based cloud service, and — ack! — nothing looks the same. Where there used to be words, there are icons. Everything is smaller and […]
HP Powers Up Publishing!
I started sharing a link to HP’s new publishing focused site the other day because I LOVE when companies get aboard the “let’s find new ways to help you grow your biz, and keep the presses pumping” train. This is the first time I had come across a focus specifically for publishers, who have been […]
The First-Ever 3D-Printed Book Cover Has Arrived
Ok, perhaps there IS a commercial use for PRINT and 3D Printers after all! Thanks to Gary Jones from PIA for sharing this in my LinkedIn Group! Check It Out: The First-Ever 3D-Printed Book Cover The limited edition of ‘On Such a Full Sea’ brings publishing into the future (or, rather, one possible future) By Lily Rothman @lilyrothman […]
The Five Stages of Grief: Print Edition
If you have never taken any psych 101 courses, or seen the movie “All That Jazz,” you might not be aware that there are five stages of grief proposed by Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross in her 1969 book “On Death and Dying.” The hypothesis states that when a person is faced with the reality of impending […]
Paper Generators Create A New Level Of Interactive Print
I don’t have a degree in electrical engineering, so Im not sure how this is something “new” and not within the known world of printed electronics (the video actually shows electronics being printed)… but if Disney can help kids read, and keep them reading cool interactive printed books… who cares! Disney info and press release […]
PRINT 13 Garners Upbeat Reviews
Graphic Communications Industry Event of the Year Draws Positive Feedback from Exhibitors and Attendees Reston, VA – PRINT 13, together with first time co-located CPP EXPO, wrapped up its run at McCormick Place in Chicago on September 12, 2013 with a feeling of optimism for the future. “Two common themes seemed to be repeated by […]
Riding The Wave Of Killer Catalog Design
By Katherine Tattersfield, Print Geek I love catalogs. Ever since I got my hands on a JC Penny Christmas catalog when I was about 5 years old, I’ve been hooked on these print marketing tools. I remember impatiently waiting for holiday catalogs to arrive so I could make my list for Santa. My mother still recalls the day […]
This Labor Day Thank Canada and PRINT For Your Day Off!
I resurrect this post every year… enjoy! This Labor Day while you are grilling away and sipping on a nice cold refreshing cocktail, don’t forget to take a moment to thank Canada and PRINT for your day off. In what is now Toronto on March 25 1872, the Typographical Society (Printer’s Union) went on strike […]
Will 2014 Be The Year Of The MSP?
As Print 13 gets closer, one thing that’s perfectly clear is that Print, isn’t just a Print show anymore. Take a look at the exhibitors and their focus, take a look at the co-located events, and take a look at the seminars and sessions being offered. I see evolution, and more important, I see revolution. That’s right […]
World's First Print-on-Demand Newsstand Being Tested In Sweden
This is the coolest thing I’ve seen in a while that is purely PRINTtastic! Step up to the machine, pick your pub, push print, and viola’ – within two minutes your freshly printed magazine drops into the pick-up slot! Genius! I am totally a buy a magazine and a pack of gum before getting on […]
Thank Print For Superman's Red Underware
Quora, if you are unaware, is a question and answer user-based site. There is a lot of cool information being exchanged, and in many ways this site is the ultimate Nirvana for Geeks. All of those crazy hypotheticals argued over endless hours of dungeons and dragons are now intellectual fodder for some amazing exchanges. And […]
Screw 3D – How About A Catalog That Flies!
Shout out to Jamie McLennan for sharing this via Twitter! While projects like these aren’t in everyone’s price range, when you are lucky enough to be marketing airplanes, you have to spend big to win big! This is a solid example of creativity, and the possibilities of what can be achieved when print is your […]
