Figuring out how to navigate a city has been a challenge for nearly anyone who has departed suburbia’s haunts. With a smartphone, the old way of navigating cities with maps, printed guides and or totally winging it has become a thing of the past. While there are certainly a slew of ways to navigate cities, one of our favorite ways is with our Project Beacon partner MyCityWay.
An interesting tidbit from yesterday’s release of the WIRED Magazine on iPad: it was entirely laid out in Adobe InDesign CS5. Without going into the endless debate about Apple+Adobe+Flash, Wired’s staff has probably relied on InDesign for years to layout their paper editions while other web production tools were likely used to produce their digital content. It’s unlikely that this is the first time that a print production app was used to create a piece of digital content but Adobe’s blog post makes it clear that “the Digital Magazine Solution from Adobe” is their way of the future.
For years, Wired Magazine broke boundaries and published bold layouts with clever graphical design layouts that helped it win a National Magazine Award for design. But more recently, Wired demonstrated their layout chops at interpreting paper content into a touch screen reading experience. Fittingly at TED, the demo is an inspired piece of thinking.
