Magazine covers of 2010 from The Hospital Club and magCulture.
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WIRED on iPad: Just like a Paper Tiger
I love reading about the obsessive detail that goes into magazine production - fonts, page navigation, column gutters, etc.
Deconstructing the Wired iPad app
Very interesting analysis of why the launch issue is 500Mb:
I mounted my jail broken iPad via AppleTalk and quickly tore into the app itself to see how it was constructed. Similar to the PopSci+ magazine application, each Wired issue is actually a bunch of XML files that lay out a bunch of images. And by “a bunch of images” I mean 4,109 images weighing in at 397MB.Each full page is a giant image - there are actually two images for each page: one for landscape and one for portrait mode.
No text, but instead two images for each page? Yikes.
Wired on iPad
Obviously a match made in heaven. Looks like the future.