Why the name of your media brand really, really matters

It's 2019 and tech innovation is dead... because Apple killed it, writes Andy Pemberton

Get 10% off our brand-new pitch workshop at Idea London on January 31st

Interviewing Matt Kelly, the award-winning editor of The New European, onstage at the PPA Live.

Delivering a sharper edge to specialist management consultancies

Kicking the brand tyres and looking at audience opportunities for ITV's top rating Lorraine show

Speaking at this week's Art of Rolling Stone conference in New York. Excited!

The inside story of Rolling Stone's legendary design blueprint

The fight over the future of advertising has only just started...

The September issue

Honest Andy's Guide To The PPA Front Cover Of The Year Chase

Five good stories

Why the Big Issue remains the most important publication in the country

Five good links

Esquire spoofs the greatest magazine cover ever

Five good links

Small, but perfectly formed

Welcome to your new identity

You lookin' at me?

Rock n' roll meets corporate finance

The Big Issue wins PPA Cover of The Year with a stunning demonstration of editorial expertise

'The interface is the product'. Apple prove Steve Jobs' mantra yet again with the introduction of their new system font.

Five good links

The single reason why Proxima Nova is the world's best font

Five good links

How to make your subscriber cover really mean something

Fifteen hot links

How to produce pointless stories, devoid of meaningful value or engagement

Gavin Reeve-Daniels

Type size is your friend

Print that.

Seven Must-see, Must-read Links

Jane Bown

Stolleys Law. Works every time...

Possibly The Best Airline Magazine In The World

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‘Elitist, Narrow-minded, And With An Aesthetic Corridor No Wider Than My Middle Finger’

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OH NO! Who's taken the car!

Is Your Content Going Down The Toilet? Here Are Three Things You Can do About it

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Is this what Amazon is going to do to us all?

Five good links

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My interview with Wyatt Mitchell, the Creative Director of The New Yorker

Five good links

How Hearst's Town & Country will help give Putin some manners

How do you compete with a billion dollar logo?

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David Carson, and the layout that changed the way I work

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Brand or content, what should be seen first?

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On the radio, talking about George Lois and this cover

The colour of money: why does Hearst's hot new launch look so bland?

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Mergers, aquisitions and permanent beta. My media predictions for 2014.

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Emotional headlines that make you cry are the new SEO

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Gov.uk’s 10 design principles are simply a work of genius

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The Big Issue crowdsource their Christmas cover. Here's why it really works...

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This is just genius

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Newspapers are still taking our attention for granted. Here's how they can change that...

Why The Independent redesign does not go far enough

Surprising, delightful, emotional: Radio Times publishes it's own book of classic covers

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Miley Cyrus gets naked for Rolling Stone. But look who's taken the picture...

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Is this going to be the best bit of The New Yorker redesign?

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What the hell is going on with Oprah Magazine?

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Time magazine makes Church & State finally collapse!

An Englishman In New York

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'There aren’t many magazines that can truly claim to capture a moment. This one did.'

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Details: a perfect reference point

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For The Benefit Of Mr. Bob

Glamour. But at what price?

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Cover of the moment

Why the picture's not the problem

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Bloomberg: still hard

How newsstand pressure is bending even the biggest brands out of shape

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One wipes the royal arse

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Which all-type cover sold best?

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Why did Time Out win this year's PPA Cover Of The Year award?

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The PPA Cover Of the Year: why the smart money's on the Corgi

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Nuts is copied by Zoo EXACTLY!

Five must-see, must-read links

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Welcome to the weekly drama that is the cover of the NME

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Design of the Year's front cover

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Six reasons why the new Harper's Bazaar is so cool

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Meet the cover of the future

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Today's Pop Art

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Buzzfeed sees the light

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Dyslexic? This font can change your life

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The PPA announce the Cover Of The Century shortlist. But which one should REALLY win?

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Welcome to America

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Oh. My. God.

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Cover of the moment!

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How a successful #hashtag strategy can define your brand

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Cover of the moment!

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Shhhh! We're still playing...

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'Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts'

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One knows one's readers

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mark denton at IPC

Meet Mark Denton, the man behind the 'worst' magazine cover designs of all time

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New Yorker cover post newtown

How do you feel about sending your kids back to school today?

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Australian night sky

Starry, starry night

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Iron Maiden Classic rock

America votes Edward T Head as their Cover Of The Year!

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Time person of the year

Nadav Kander. A photographer for our times

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Here is what magazine covers of the future will look like

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Five hot links of the week. Plus a super-festive kerning fail

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radio and tv times covers

One picture or six? How to build a winning TV magazine cover

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russia allure

Blimey, that's cool!

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rihanna unapologetic

Rihanna. Showing us that the newsstand is the ideal place to turn on, tune in, and drop out

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people magazine channing tatum

It's Charming, Chiseled and...Green. But will it sell?

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john entwistle

'I, I, I, I made enquiries as to find out why what had happened on Twitter had happened because it seemed to me to be that the, the...' (cont. p. 94)

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Steve Jobs

What are the 18 secrets to giving a presentation like Steve Jobs?

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office worker

'The dark satanic mills of creative mass production'

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new york magazine

When Instagram really works. And when it doesn't.

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offensive cover

The Daily Mail couldn't make it up. So they got someone else to do it.

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Q magazine jimmy saville

'There are no skeletons in the closet, and I got knighted, so that proves it, doesn't it?'

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end of newsweek

The bullshit hype is over. Four big lessons to learn from the death of Newsweek

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if this is a blog...

Ad people talking bollocks

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migraine magazine cover

A cover archive so good, my head hurts

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time out cover

Bond. Alighting at Bond Street.

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marie claire cover

How to photograph the world's biggest pop star for your cover

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big issue magazine cover

With a brand like the Big Issue, the content's value is wrapped up in the transaction itself

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time out magazine

What makes you pick up a cover, even when the magazine is free?

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charming-baker

Charming Baker: officially one of Britain's best artists

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New USA Today logo

America's only national newspaper redesigns. What does this mean, and why the hell should we care?

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adbusters spread

Adbusters magazine. Brilliant, absolutely bloody infuriating, required viewing.

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magazine shop

The Sartorialist. Proving that magazines are still in demand

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Which of these women is reading 'Erotic Fiction'?

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Is that a camera phone in your pocket, or are you just pleased to see me?

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Which book cover caught your eye first?

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oprah magazine transformation issue

How to make a monthly cover look both premium and popular at the same time

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What Vanity Fair's latest issue might look like, if it were weekly

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Kelly Brook on Look magazine

UK's biggest selling fashion magazine shows how you can still sell shedloads on newsstand

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Sue you! Sue me! Sue everybody!

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Gail porter on the houses of parliament

What happens when Mad Men go to work on a media brand?

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An infographic to explain the future of . . . infographics!

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People McConaughy Wedding cover

People is the biggest magazine in the world. Here are 5 ways it plans to stay that way

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PPA cover of the year 2012

Why did Sport magazine win the PPA Cover of The Year 2012?

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Professor Green calligraphy for Nuts magazine

Professor Green, Nuts magazine, Flipboard and our total addiction to mobile phones

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Facebook engagement drops 35%

Facebook engagement levels are down by 35%. Stick that in your inbox and smoke it!

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New Yorker cartoon all about Twitter

This just in: Esquire's Warhol cover, Travel & Leisure's redesign and making money out of mobile

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Stern Euros and and iphone

Europe's financial crisis solved! All you need is love, and the latest issue of Stern

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Would you breast feed your 4 year old?

Should magazine covers now be designed for social media instead of the newsstand?
Dave Grohl

The one reason Rolling Stone Italia's cover is now better than the American original

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'Your Madge, is it OK to use the royal crest on our cover?'