When magazines innovate

John Wilpers, Innovation Media Consulting Group (UK) and editor from Innovation Media Consulting presents the latest innovations in the magazine media world @ the Digital Innovation Summit in Berlin

Tools to Revamp your Pics

A walk in Tervuren Park

Sometimes I'm frustrated by my lack of competences with tools like Photoshop. I'd love to be a creative or graphic skilled person. But I'm not. Definitely. I'm even struggling with Picasa (desktop) when adding effects to my pics. But picnik is a nice online alternative to resize images, add a frame or special effects. Most of these services are free of charges. Another tool I like for its simplicity, speed and user-friendliness is Rollip. Choose out of 40 filters to revamp your pics. And more important: get the result in less than two minutes. Just the kind of tool I like...  All the images in this post are clickable for a better view.

First Spring Pics

Don't get confused by the Belgian weather these days... It's still spring. Time to leave hibernation and to enjoy the revival of nature in the beautiful Park of Tervuren. I'd like to translate a tweet I've read yesterday in Dutch @kanhetnogkorter:

Everything is in bloom and enjoyable in 3D thanks to free software from (Mother) Nature

Beautiful colors

Family trip

Is there something wrong with the neck?

Into the woods to enjoy this most spectacular wild flower display

A carpet of Bluebells

Interactive Celebration with Magazines

When a creative is chosen to be part of the jury of the Applied Arts' 2010 Interactive Awards issue, it must be at the organizer's own risk ;-)


Ari Elkouby, Associative Creative Director at Proximity Canada took the unconventional way to celebrate his appointment as jury member. And share his ideas to make the special edition in a really 'special' augmented edition. With the hope to inspire peers and future creatives. And why don't combine print with interactivity? 

"The hope of the magazine is that this experience will inspire those reading the annual to question the conventional and inspire innovative thinking," said Elkouby.


I really like it when creatives play with magazines in an innovative way. Because I'm a heavy user of print, and iPad, and internet... Catch it?


Print Magazine Takes Users On Interactive Storytelling Ride (MediaPost Publication)

How Esquire brings pages to live

Esquire is really an innovator when it comes to test new things and enrich its magazine. Not a very recent example but one I like:

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