Mon 28 Mar
2011
An Illustration for Stack America
Stack America is a neat service in which subscribers get a curated bundle of independent magazines sent to them every other month. The titles change with each delivery, but all are selected by editor Andrew Losowsky from among the best of the many eclectic, hard-to-find titles produced by the independent press.
The subscription also includes bi-monthly installments from what Stack America calls “The Designers Series”: graphic prints created exclusively for Stack America by invited designers. Andrew asked me last year to create something for this series, but I was reluctant to say yes for lack of a good idea.
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Then in February I wrote a blog post called “Unnecessary Explanations,” citing the preponderance of explanatory screens for iPad magazines and other iPad apps as a sign of poorly executed user experience design. Andrew suggested to me I could parody the concept of instructional screens altogether by creating an illustration of an instructional screen for a print magazine, and after the two of us riffed on this idea over email for a while, we came up with this.
Prints shipped with the March installment of Stack America, but anyone who subscribes this week through this subscription form will get a copy of my print with the next delivery in May. Even better, you’ll also get a print from that month’s designer, Emigre co-founder and a longtime hero of mine Rudy Vanderlans.
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I’d love to subscribe but those links don’t appear to be working..unless they are overloaded!
And of course it worked now, subscription complete. Thanks for the tip!
29 Mar 2011, 04:37 pm
Sold! I love it, just the incentive (and reminder) I needed to subscribe to this great service.
For sure! Most insightful and truth-telling infographic I’ve seen to date! lol
Uhm, you’re a few centuries too late - the Norwegian helpdesk already covered this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQHX-SjgQvQ