COP Practical- Research into websites and creative app's

“Producers of successful  indie magazines don’t try and beat digital at it’s game; they focus on things only print can do. And they do them very, very well. They reveal the physically of the magazine. They play with the format. They mix paper stocks. They publish long, luxurious articles and photo-essays that takes month to research and hours to read and absorb. They lovingly craft issues that are beautiful, collectible and timeless objects.” Print is Dead. Long Live Print, Ruth Jamieson pg.8 

• Turn something completely digital into print. 

• To show off all of the techniques that print can do and express the quality of print. Research into creative websites/ apps that have no physical existence. 

• With digital something is there one minute and then gone the next, print makes everything more permanent. 

Websites

Designspration

Designspiration is a way to discover and share your design, architecture, photography and fashion inspiration.  

Designspiration would benefit from having a printed publication maybe as a monthly magazine, for the consumer to buy as inspiration and then maybe build up a collection.

Pintrest 

Pinterest is a visual discovery tool that you can use to find ideas for all of your projects and interests. 

Pintrest could have a printed interactive catalogue much like their gridded layout to their website, the user would interact in different ways.

Tumblr

Post anything (from anywhere!), customize everything, and find and follow what you love. 

Tumblr is a large visual social networking site where each user can edit their personal page to look like a website, I could illustrate a printed publication where the user build up there own print portfolio.

Design Taxi

All about Design, Art, Photography, Advertising, Architecture, Style, Culture, Technology, and Social Media. 

Design taxi is a website for creatives with the latest articles about what is going on in the design world, the website would benefit from having a printed publication almost like a magazine.

Creative app's 

An app being turned into a printed publication could be quite interactive, showing how the interactive elements of the app can be transfered into print, a publication to complement the app. 

Instagram 

Instagram is a social media that allows you to connect with friends and famous people

Instagram is one of the largest social media sites that is download-able as an app, the app works well as it is visual which makes it different from any other app. Instagram is now owed my Facebook.

Adobe Kuler

Create color schemes with the color wheel or browse thousands of color combinations from the Kuler community.

Adobe Kuler is a colour helper, putting images into a colour generator, this app/ website would benefit from having a printed publication as it could be a colour catalogue dis- playing which colours complement each other most.

Trend Generator 

Generate trendy posters quickly at high quality for print.

Trend generator is an app that helps people create trendy graphic design with the use of squiggles, lines and layers. This could work well as a publication as it would display peoples work from the app.

Glithe Lab

Glitch - a sudden, usually temporary malfunction or fault of equipment.

Glitche is an app that turns your own photographs into computer glitches. A glitche happens from a form of technology going wrong, so this publication could display how the digital world does have its implications.