Packaging Inspiration: Al Qaeda’s Digital Magazine \u3cem\u3eInspire\u3c/em\u3e in the Self-Radicalization Process

Al Qaeda is today a fragmented organization, and its strategic communication efforts now focus largely on recruiting individuals in the West to carry out “individual jihad” in their home countries. One Al Qaeda–affiliated publication, Inspire, represents an unusual use of the digital magazine format and content for recruitment. This study examines the content and design of Inspire to determine how the magazine may advance the self-radicalization that it seeks to induce in its readers. This analysis finds that the magazine weaves together jihadist ideology, a narrow interpretation of Islam, and appropriations of Western popular culture to maximize the publication’s potential for motivating readers toward violence

Pinpoint Magazine: A Student’s Guide to Preparing for a Career in Design

Pinpoint magazine’s purpose is to inspire and educate design students in their path toward a design career. Pinpoint is a magazine that features articles filled with insight and practical advice about entering the design industry. The information gathered is presented in a printed magazine format that will help college students pursuing degrees in art and design become informed about how to best pursue their career, how to navigate the world of design, and how to develop their design skills effectively. By reading a magazine filled with practical information on how to become a professional designer, design students will have a more informed and well-rounded view of their chosen career

Design and Development of a User Specific Dynamic E-Magazine

Internet and electronic media gaining more popularity due to ease and speed, the count of Internet users has increased tremendously. The world is moving faster each day with several events taking place at once and the Internet is flooded with information in every field. There are categories of information ranging from most relevant to user, to the information totally irrelevant or less relevant to specific users. In such a scenario getting the information which is most relevant to the user is indispensable to save time. The motivation of our solution is based on the idea of optimizing the search for information automatically. This information is delivered to user in the form of an interactive GUI. The optimization of the contents or information served to him is based on his social networking profiles and on his reading habits on the proposed solution. The aim is to get the user's profile information based on his social networking profile considering that almost every Internet user has one. This helps us personalize the contents delivered to the user in order to produce what is most relevant to him, in the form of a personalized e-magazine. Further the proposed solution learns user's reading habits for example the news he saves or clicks the most and makes a decision to provide him with the best contents.Comment: 19 pages, 6 figure

Opportunities and Constraints for Independent Digital Magazine Publishing

Optimists have long hoped that digital communication would diversify media, but the realization of this dream is far from certain today. This study investigates the emerging opportunities available to independent magazine publishers through digital publishing methods, such as distributing their magazines through the Apple Newsstand. These publishing methods have the potential to diversify magazine publishing beyond the currently dominant offerings of major multinational magazine publishers. However, at the same time, a variety of limitations — software and design expertise, public awareness and interest, and technology companies’ constraints on publishers — may have already limited the ways these independent publishers can reach audiences. Through in-depth interviews with independent digital magazine publishers, this study illuminates the effects of these factors on these publishers’ efforts to offer varied new perspectives to the public within the digital magazine medium

The influence of the visual elements of cover design on the appeal of art and cultural magazines: case study is book fare in Oulu

Design of magazines - a complex and time-consuming process, often requiring custom solutions. Developers need to know what impact on the visual component of information influence on the audience. The purpose of this case is to gain an understanding of what kind of visual elements of paper media influence on the choice of viewer. As a particular type of magazine were chosen art and cultural magazine with a reason to narrow research and to get depth knowledge about this topic. The study is structured that in the first chapter the information about purpose and research questions is provided. Second chapter describes research materials and methodology that were used to collect data. The third chapter gives the literature review that focus subjects of the study. In the chapters four, the results of the research is analysed and conclusions are made. After all chapters made generalised conclusion using data from the literature review and data collected from the interviews

FLEXIBEL PACKAGING PADA MAJALAH CONCEPT EDISI KE 18: PERSPEKTIF KAJIAN SENI

In general, using the magazine as plastic packaging. Different with the magazine concept edition-18, which uses flexible packaging. Flexible packaging commonly used in various fields such as food and beverage, pet food, pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, health, beauty, anbd other consumer. Flexible packaging is an innovation of the latest packaging industry. Based on the function, categorized as primary packaging, the packaging directly in contact with the contents of the product and directly related to the consumer, it is very importat to note the visualization. Visualization is commonly associated with forms, aesthetics, function and meaning. Flexible packaging the magazine concept edition of 18 despite having a modern look but still did not leave the local cultural elements are implemented through the elements of visual communication design. Elements of visual communication design contained in flexible packaging, such as illustrations, colors, text and typography. Interestingly, the flexible packaging in the magazine concept edition of 18, applying the symbols on the outside of thought in general. This is the main attraction for examination. The research method used was qualitative research methods. The purpose to understand the form, aesthetics, function and meaning contained in the flexible packaging magazine concept edition of 18

Gardner-Webb, The Magazine 2014, Spring (Volume 49 No. 1)

Gardner-Webb, The Magazine, previously titled The Webb Magazine, focuses on alumni news and campus events from Gardner-Webb College; now Gardner-Webb University. This issue of the magazine won the Collegiate Advertising Awards (CAA) and Gold Award for single magazine publication and the Merit Award for cover graphic design. This dual achievement has only been attained by five schools in the nation. Merit Award for cover graphic design, this award recognizes excellence across the board, including writing, graphic design, photography and production. Criteria for the award included creativity, layout and design, functionality, message effectiveness, production quality, and overall appeal. GWU’s entry earned the highest marks for single magazine publication among institutions with 2,000 to 5,000 students. This issue was also awarded the Gold Award of Excellence in cover design and the Silver Award of Distinction in educational institutional magazines by the Communicator Awards presented by the Academy of Interactive and Visual Arts (AIVA).https://digitalcommons.gardner-webb.edu/gwmagazine/1007/thumbnail.jp

KARAKTERISTIK TIPOGRAFI PADA DESAIN IKLAN KOMERSIAL MAJALAH MAKASSAR TERKINI EDISI JANUARI – DESEMBER 2014

This research aim to know type of tipogarfi any kind of most often and most used at commercial advertisement in Magazine Makassar Terkini, thereby can be found typography characteristic becoming tendency at commercial advertisement design magazine of Makassar Terkini. Result of research show usage highest of type sans serif in May reach 87% while lowest June edition only 45%, usage most lower seems not yet can reach by usage of type of dekoratif or of serif highest in so many edition. Total poin usage of sans serif is 674, representing highest of usage of letter type of anyting, even if all collected other letter type poin not yet can compete with to the number of poin exploiting of type of sans serif. Of height of poin and percentage of usage of letter type of sans serif at 10 magazine edition of Makassar Terkini year 2014, hence can be concluded that typography characteristic design commercial advertisement magazine of Makassar Terkini year 2014 is sans serif or letter which do not use barb at the end of its letter. this Typography type have storey;level of legibility better clarity function and of other typography type. Keywords: Typographi, Design, Advertisement, Magazin