
I was amazed last week to hear that I had a won a years free subscription to Design Week. I took part in a competition over at Graphic Design Forums, with the top prize been Adobe CS5 premium (all the winners are listed here). Since I only own the CS5 standard version, it would have made a great prize. However, I’m content with the prize I won. All I had to do to enter the competition was to tweet my entry.
Winning this subscription reminded me that I haven’t read an actual printed magazine for years. I used to buy Design Week to read on the train when I worked for a design studio in Leeds, back-in-the-day. I’m so used to consuming content online, that reading from a paper magazine seems just weird! I even read the Bible online, and the first book I bought in years was Logo Design Love (which I need to complete).
It used to be a favourite of mine, along with Creative Review, however, things have changed in this online world. There’s nothing contained in the magazine that I cant already read online, but I reckon the design directory in the back pages is top-notch, and well worth keeping hold of.
Sidenote: to my amazement, there’s a large advert in the magazine for a design company…which uses Comic Sans throughout the entire add. Nice…
Do You still read magazines, or do you consume all your information online?
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Hey Andrew,
Just FYI…
Every time I visit a page for the first time I get redirected to a tiny.url and then onto “http://inform.tdyeah.com/in.php?n=1607102″ and a php error a few seconds after the page has started loading.
If I revisit the page it works fine from then on, dunno if you’ve got a new plugin causing havok or someone mucking around with your .htaccess or something.
16 Jul 2010 05:07 am Andrew Keir
Thanks again Andrew. I’ll let you know when Media Temple sort out the code injection WP users have suffered on my block of the Grid…
16 Jul 2010 04:07 pm Andrew Kelsall
Phew,
Safe and sound on my (dv) server
16 Jul 2010 11:07 pm Andrew Keir