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Some magazine publishers hoped that this year would see marketers shake off their exuberance for digital media. Perhaps, amid a sober reassessment of the actual results from so much digital experimentation, print could even recapture some of the ad spending lost to the internet.
Fat chance.
Instead, a combination of forces led by the broad economic slump [...]

Check out this video of Paula Scher from Pentagram (here). I love when she talks about how ideas come to her very quickly and clients like to buy process so if the problem is solved in 1 second then they feel like they’re not getting their moneys worth. She explains “it’s done in a second, [...]

Do you like honesty? Robert Wright has your dose from the Photo Fest (here). Always a good read.

Keith J. Kelly has the story (here). Could this signal the beginning of the end for the high profits and consumer appetite of tabloid journalism?
We can only hope.

Andrew Hetherington has coverage of last nights PDN party in NYC (here).

and law making in general over at Photo Business News and Forum (here).

Patry Copyright Blog points us to this 67 1/2 page treatise on The Happy Birthday Song:
“‘Happy Birthday to You’ is the best-known and most frequently sung song in the world. …However, it is almost certainly no longer under copyright, due to a lack of evidence about who wrote the words; defective copyright notice; and a [...]

Steve Frye. In a sidebar in the current issue of Publishing Executive titled The State of the Printing Industry Frye drops this bomb:
I think we need to change our philosophy of what a magazine is. We are no longer a cheap means of dispensing information, and that’s what we were until [...]

Heather Morton made a cool video about a photography project Derek Shapton is working on (here).

The American Society of Picture Professionals (ASPP) New York Chapter presents
PHOTOGRAPHY MEETS BOOK COVER DESIGN
Prominent book designers Ann Twomey and Henry Sene Yee discussing the role photography plays in their work.
Wednesday, May 7, 2008 from 6:00 pm -8:30 pm
Laura Parsons Pratt Conference Center
281 Park Ave South at 22nd Street
Space is limited. Please RSVP by May [...]

“Many of Mr. Lois’s covers were controversial, not so say irreverent or deliberately provocative. The Liston cover cost the magazine $750,000 in dropped advertising. But they were immensely successful at drawing attention, on the newsstand especially.”
“What was remarkable then — and seems even more so now, when virtually every magazine cover is a thicket of [...]

Mikhail Prokhorov — whose wealth is estimated at around $22 billion — plans to spend $150 million setting up a magazine, website and television station called Snob, the general director of the new venture told Reuters on Wednesday.
“It’s for people who are successful and those who want to be successful,” said Andrei
Shmarov, who will run [...]

Advertising is on a self destructive path where you need more louder ads to break through the clutter which in turn creates more clutter. Referral from trusted sources will soon become the way most people find things.
Asking another photo editor has always been one of the best ways to find a photographer.
Read all about it [...]