There’s been lots and lots of press about the iPad and what it will or won’t do for the publishing industry. But in the first installment of his new “Interaction” column for Print, debuting in the magazine’s June issue, NYTimes.com design director Khoi Vinh looks at Apple’s highly hyped tablet from a different angle: what this new platform will mean for publication designers.
“While Apple is rightly famous for bringing an uncompromising level of design detail to their devices and platforms, the company has provided the iPad with surprisingly few typographic tools for designers and developers,” Vinh writes in his debut column, titled “Jobs Saves? If the iPad manages to save publishing, that doesn’t mean it’s going to save publishing design.”
“For all its revolution and magic, it still doesn’t offer basic hyphenation or professional-quality justification controls, to say nothing of truly empowering tools for rich typography and layout. As a device for reading content, it will suffice; as a tool for delivering great graphic design, well, it’s not quite the future many designers had hoped for.”
Vinh, who also has his own blog (Subtraction), is a strong, reasoned writer. It’s worth going here to read his column in full.
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NYTimes.com design director on the iPad and publication designers
There’s been lots and lots of press about the iPad and what it will or won’t do for the publishing industry. But in the first installment of his new “Interaction” column for Print, debuting in the magazine’s June issue, NYTimes.com design director Khoi Vinh looks at Apple’s highly hyped tablet from a different angle: what this new platform will mean for publication designers.
“While Apple is rightly famous for bringing an uncompromising level of design detail to their devices and platforms, the company has provided the iPad with surprisingly few typographic tools for designers and developers,” Vinh writes in his debut column, titled “Jobs Saves? If the iPad manages to save publishing, that doesn’t mean it’s going to save publishing design.”
“For all its revolution and magic, it still doesn’t offer basic hyphenation or professional-quality justification controls, to say nothing of truly empowering tools for rich typography and layout. As a device for reading content, it will suffice; as a tool for delivering great graphic design, well, it’s not quite the future many designers had hoped for.”
Vinh, who also has his own blog (Subtraction), is a strong, reasoned writer. It’s worth going here to read his column in full.
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.
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