Articles by Chris St.Cyr
Chris St.Cyr is a partner at the design firm 2COMMUNIQUÉ and full-time faculty at the College of Saint Rose. His work has won numerous design awards and he lectures regularly on design and design education. Chris has an MFA from the Digital Media Institute at Massachusetts College of Art and Design.
The 48 Hour Experiment
The first issue of 48HR magazine is out. If you’re not familiar with this new publication, it’s a magazine experiment that takes advantage of the immediacy of digital technology in order to write, design, produce and print a publication in …
Comic Book Covers as Other Publications
One of the design aspects of magazines from the past that I miss is the minimal treatment of the cover. The work of George Lois for Esquire is a clear example. The covers communicated a clear message with a well-directed …
The Wired iPad
Since it first starting publishing in January 1993, Wired magazine has been breaking ground with regards to the design of the publication. I remember picking up the latest issue at Nini’s corner in Harvard Square — I couldn’t wait to …
Bonnier’s Digital Magazine
This concept video for the digital magazine of the future makes me wish the future was here. I hope we don’t see many more magazines die (R.I.P I.D.) before this kind of publication is available. The video, Mag+, is a …
Sports Illustrated Gets Ready for NextGen E-Readers
Time, Inc. released this video of a prototype e-reader scenario for their Sports Illustrated publication. There are the usual kinds of interactions of flipping to move through the pages and pinching to resize images. I particularly like the book-map interface …
