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Impact reports: to print or not to print?
Impact reports, sometimes called sustainability reports or social impact reports, are designed to communicate an organisation’s social, environmental, or community performance. Instead of focusing on financial performance, they look at these more mission-driven outcomes to show the impact the organisation has had on the world. For large companies in the UK (defined by a combination …
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Financial typesetting, and its role in the printing process
Typesetting is an important step in getting a document ready for print. Along with artworking and design, it’s one component of getting a document ready to be put in front of your readers. For shareholder and investor communications like IPO prospectuses, annual reports, and merger & acquisition, rights issues, and fund raising documents, typesetting has …
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How will AI change the indie publishing industry?
It’s hard to avoid conversations about AI in any industry at the moment, as creators and companies try to work out whether it’s a useful tool, an irrelevance, or a threat to the way they do business. So how will this emerging technology affect the publishers of independent magazines? While AIs are able to generate …
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8 independent sports magazines reaching new audiences
Sports has changed a lot in the last few years. While mainstream publications have been slow to adjust to the new audiences and areas of interest, indie mags saw their opportunity, picked up the ball and ran with it. From the introduction of skateboarding and breakdancing at the Olympics, to the unstoppable rise in popularity …
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Entering the print industry: careers at Park|Graphius
For many young people, the world of work can feel difficult to navigate after finishing school. University isn’t the right path for everyone, and practical, skills-based careers are often less visible despite offering long-term, rewarding opportunities. This is especially true within the print industry. As a specialist trade, print is something many people simply don’t …
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Print artworking explained – and whether you can DIY it
Print artworking is the process that bridges creative intent and physical manufacture. It ensures that imagery, colour, dimensions and layout translate accurately from screen to press. While design defines how something should look, artworking prepares it so it can be produced with precision. Nearly all print should probably be artworked, but for productions such as …
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7 pieces of brand print editorial we’ve been loving recently
While digital channels remain central to most marketing strategies, print has increasingly become a medium through which brands explore ideas, culture and storytelling in a more considered way. A well-produced publication allows brands to explore ideas in greater depth, present their work in a cultural context, and build relationships with readers that extend beyond transactional …
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From Zine to Art Book: An Independent Magazine Case Study
What is Lore? Lore is a community-driven, independent magazine led by editor-in-chief Isaac Nikolai Fox. Each issue is built around a central theme and brings together commissioned editorial photography and original writing that challenges ideas of culture, identity and belonging. Playful and deliberately unfiltered, Lore positions itself as a different kind of art publication. As …
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