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• It’s Presentation Day: Stand Up, Deliver with Pride—and Smile.

  

  Many of those who choose design as a career don’t know it, but they should take a couple of courses in the art of presentation, not necessarily a theater course... Read more

  Posted on 23 October 2014 MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• Montreal Gazette: New Look, New Strategy Across Four Platforms

  

  The Montreal Gazette is the second of eight Postmedia newspapers of Canada to introduce a new look and visual identity. It is also a total rethinking of how new... Read more

  Posted on 22 October 2014 MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• Thumbs up and on the Screen for the New iPhone 6 Plus

  

  It is not enough to just keep the finger happy when it comes to those bigger iPhone screens that are now a reality. We must make sure that the design is fit fo... Read more

  Posted on 21 October 2014 MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• De Telegraaf: One Week Later, the Taming of a Lion

  

  It's been one week and two weekends for the team of De Telegraaf to get used to its new tabloid format and all the design/storytelling challenges that come... Read more

  Posted on 20 October 2014 MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• Vox Sentences: the Short of It All—-in the Evenings.

  

  It is a new entry into the curated world of at a glance journalism that aims at making us become addicted to a briefing—this one, in the evenings! Read more

  Posted on 17 October 2014 MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• The New Meaning of Audience Loyalty

  

  Notions of loyalty and frequency have dramatically changed for everyone in the newsroom. How we approach them could make the difference. Read more

  Posted on 16 October 2014 MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• Millenials: How to Attract Them

  We in the media have always spent considerable time figuring out how to attract the young. It is a sort of pastime in executive rooms everywhere. Today's... Read more

  Posted on 15 October 2014 MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• What’s State of Tablet Editions Today?

  

  It is my turn to speak at the WAN IFRA Tablet Summit 2014 in Amsterdam today: preparing for this presentation allowed me to review the short, but fast evolving... Read more

  Posted on 14 October 2014 MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• Three News Tems We Like to Share

  

  Three items in the media news agenda give us reasons to celebrate: The Wall Street Journal's WSJ magazine starts publishing in Spanish and Portuguese. At The... Read more

  Posted on 13 October 2014 MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• De Telegraaf Goes Tabloid: Second Day Pages

  

  It's the second day of the iconic Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf in its new tabloid format. Readers reactions have been overwhelmingly positive. Each day the tea... Read more

  Posted on 11 October 2014 MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• De Telegraaf: It’s a New Tabloid Look Where Legacy Meets the Future

  

  It's happened: the Netherland's most read daily newspaper, De Telegraaf, has introduced its new tabloid format concept today. It took months of rethinking,... Read more

  Posted on 10 October 2014 MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• Here is How the Competition Would Redesign De Telegraaf as Tabloid

  

  As the Netherlands' leading newspaper prepares to publish its first ever tabloid edition Friday, Oct. 10, a competition newspaper in Amsterdam, Het Parool,... Read more

  Posted on 09 October 2014 MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• De Telegraaf: The Road to Tabloid, Part 3

  

  It’s the day before D-Day, which in this case translates to Oct. 10 when Holland’s most revered and most widely read daily, De Telegraaf, switches from a big... Read more

  Posted on 09 October 2014 MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• De Telegraaf: The Road to Tabloid, Part 2

  

  When De Telegraaf premieres its new, more compact look Oct. 10, it will be the 23rd conversion of a newspaper to tabloid in which we at Garcia Media... Read more

  Posted on 08 October 2014 MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• De Telegraaf: The Road to Tabloid, Part 1

  

  On October 10, De Telegraaf, Holland’s best read daily newspaper, will undergo one of its most major transformations ever: going from broadsheet to tabloid. Al... Read more

  Posted on 07 October 2014 MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• The Washington Post’s Native Ad in Print: the Message of Things to Come

  

  When The Washington Post published a Shell ad on page A13 of its print edition last week, it signaled perhaps a new era for the synergy of editorial and... Read more

  Posted on 06 October 2014 MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• El Pais: New Website Design is Efficient but Visually Disappointing

  

  Spain’s El Pais introduced a new look for its website Wednesday: it is clean and efficient, but don’t expect it to show you any new visual presentation tips. Read more

  Posted on 03 October 2014 MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• Gulf News’ Batman Project: the Digital Versions

  

  Batman fans, and those who love great illustrations, you are in for a treat with this celebration of the iconic character, first published in print, now... Read more

  Posted on 02 October 2014 MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• What’s in a Folio Line?

  

  Folio lines are always present, on every page of every newspaper, magazine and book. If it is printed, chances are folios are a part of it. Why are they... Read more

  Posted on 01 October 2014 MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• A Conversation About Typography for Al Jazeera

  Last week I taped an interview that will be part of the Al Jazeera’s program The Listening Post. The topic: typography and its impact in how we get... Read more

  Posted on 01 October 2014 MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH