The managing editor of the news publication I'm interning for sent out an e-mail with a link to a site for a company that converts magazines into an electronic form. The resulting product allows people to "flip" pages by clicking on the corner of a page.
I'm not too fond of it. I think it's awkward. It works great for page designs that focus on graphics-heavy layouts but in order to read text, you have to zoom in and out. Not good at all for newspapers or text-heavy magazines. It just feels like a lot of eye and hand work. But the concept is pretty cool to play with.
Check it out and let me know what you think.
2 comments:
Interesting. I like how they're trying to simulate the pages of a real magazine with the "page turning." The internet is taking over isn't it?
This reminds me of a scene from the movie "Minority Report." I"m fascinated with the possibilities of the online medium when it comes to story telling abilities, but this seems a little bit extreme to me.
Who knows, it might be the next wave of going green.
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