Exact Editions Blog

Khoi Vinh a typographer/designer who works for the New York Times has recently delivered some fascinating comments on design for books and magazines and the iPad and the new iPhone. Here is a quote from yesterday’s blog:

Fred Wilson, a vc at ‘a vc‘, always has his finger on the pulse. But he may be missing something with his recent blog, I Prefer Safari to Content Apps On The iPad. Part of his message is that he would rather have free stuff through the web than pay for things through the app store, so you could say he has produced a non-shopping list. But we most of us do buy stuff from the app … Keep Reading

I recommend the WIRED Magazine app. If you have an iPad (it will not run on an iPhone) and have been a Wired reader do get the app ($4.99) to make up your own mind about it. These are some of the things I most like about it:

• Gorgeous graphics and ‘interesting’ design — we will get on to that.
• Excellent and pithy articles on topics that any iPad owner will find interesting (lots of stuff: eg Steven Levy on

Exact Editions began with the goal of delivering magazines, issue by issue, as subscription services for web browsers. For various reasons, some of which I may have forgotten and some of which are deeply ideological, we took the view that the service had to be a pure web service. Every page of every magazine should be rendered as a web page, so that it could both link and be linked to. This is still the underlying, database-driven, system that underpins … Keep Reading

We all know Google’s mission statement: “to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.” (Google: Company Overview). Amazon has a vision statement that you may have encountered: “Our vision is to be earth’s most customer centric company; to build a place where people can come to find and discover anything they might want to buy online.” (Amazon: Corporate FAQ’s). I bet you did not know that Apple has a ‘sort of’ mission statement on … Keep Reading