A lucky few got physical copies of her album as a printed book. Check out the winners on Billboard then read the digital version of it for yourself below.
Allure goes in depth on the most important issue: aka Solange’s amazing hair on the album cover. Check out the full article here.
Today we announced a new, elevated, redesigned issuu reading experience. Any tech company will tell you that redesigns are really hard, and there were many reasons why we wanted to deliver a better way to read and discover issuu content from any device. One (massive) piece of inspiration kept the team focused over the course of this giant, company-wide effort — the diverse ecosystem of creative publishers of issuu.
With more than three million publishers across 30 million publications from all over the globe, issuu is the curator of creativity. These creators choose issuu because it’s the center of digital publishing creativity.
Along with introducing the new issuu to the world, we’re proud to highlight a few standout voices in the issuu ecosystem:
Upward Magazine
Upward Magazine is more than just your standard travel magazine. Bringing global content to the culture conscious globe trotter, Upward has turned into a small business that packs a punch. The young powerhouse team has gotten creative to serve their impassioned audience with authentic content they crave. And with their success, they’ve been able to grow their business exponentially along the way.
It’s hard to believe but ONE Magazine was started as a simple personal project by Nicole Gavrilles while still in school. Combining her two passions of fashion and design, Nicole was able to create a career around what she loves. More importantly, she’s been able to share it. ONE has grown to be a popular women’s wear magazine, surfacing new names and previously unheard of talent in every issue. ONE Magazine is bringing their fresh perspective on editorial fashion to broader audiences every day.
When Mindy Seegal Abovitz of Tom Tom Magazine couldn’t find media that addressed the struggles of being a female drummer in a male-dominated industry, she simply created her own. Now Tom Tom has grown to be more than just a rad feminist music mag — it’s a full-on business with show production and curation, giving female drummers the chance to shine outside the pages of Tom Tom.
Part of the Stella & Dot social selling empire, Keep Collective is a fast-growing phenomenon that empowers everyday women to take leading roles in this beautiful jewelry and keepsake business. Keep Collective is a billion-dollar brand in the making, which uses innovation in digital media to reach anyone who wants to take part in their story of empowerment and success.
Mohawk Fine Paper comes up with the perfect solution to show proof of product to their designer customers – a high- end, beautiful and innovative magazine printed on all their best paper. The magazine has now evolved into even more: it’s got a cult following and really pushes the boundaries of print publishing, so we’re thrilled to have them join the issuu family and apply the same innovative thinking to the digital space.
Norwegian chef, crafter, stylist and all-around creative mastermind, Paul Lowe, includes his unique take on DIY, homemade baked goods and photography in each issue of Sweet Paul Magazine. The “anti-Martha Stewarts” of the world love the simple steps and touching stories to go with each project, and have helped turn Paul’s passion project into a thriving Brooklyn-based business. With huge events, online content and copies of Sweet Paul being sold in stores like Anthropologie, the brand is growing exponentially into a massive movement of those who enjoy the “sweet” things in life.
From the musings of a couple of young creators to newsstands across the world, Atlas Magazine is proof that with some persistence, creativity and innovative thinking, anything is possible. Atlas is redefining the role of traditional media in the fashion industry with their home-grown approach to world wide success, providing the next generation of fashion creatives an opportunity and a platform to show their talents.
Based in Chicago, Guerrero Howe is a business-to-business custom media company dedicated to recognizing, promoting, and developing great executives throughout North America.
Each of the seven brands including, Advantage, American Builders Quarterly, American Healthcare Leader, Hispanic Executive, Modern Counsel, Profile, and Sync, provides insights from executives about their career, team, organization, current projects, and leadership philosophy. Through magazines, custom content, events, and a professional network, Guerrero Howe forges a true partnership with featured executives.
While working with issuu, Guerrero Howe has grown the audience for these unique publications and continues to lead the way in the executive media marketplace.
Today we rolled out a new and elevated reading experience on issuu.com for all browsers and devices.
What’s New
The new issuu is a perfect mix of beauty and brains. It’s a beautiful new look and interface on top of a re-engineered platform for increased responsiveness and speed.
Easier to read with an updated, clean page layout, crystal-clear text and vibrant images.
More prominent and tailored suggestions to help you discover great new content.
Superb on any screen size and from any browser because it’s all built in HTML5.
Twice as fast and no more Flash plugin problems — again, thanks HTML5.
Note that we decided to share the new issuu with you now rather than later, even though it means temporarily disabling old features like searching inside a publication and reader Clips. Learn more here.
Inspired by 360° of Imagination
More than three million publishers use issuu as their home for digital publishing, which means more than 20,000 new publications are uploaded *daily* on issuu. Our team dug deep to deliver a brand new issuu worthy of these extraordinary publishers and their readers. Whether it’s a billion dollar brand in the making, a start-up music magazine, creators of any age, or family-run business thriving in a changing industry, publishers from all over the globe choose issuu because it’s the center of digital publishing creativity. Check out some of the standout issuu publishers in our ecosystem.
Crafted With Love
We went through months of research, testing and coding (and coffee!) to craft improvements that will really matter to our publishers and readers. From crystal-clear, vibrant text and images, to an updated page flip animation to mobile-responsive embeds, these thoughtful details will make you feel at ease when you read and engage in the new and improved issuu. There’s so much more in the new issuu, we thought we’d make our own magazine to share it all with you. Meta alert: This publication about the new issuu experience is embedded below using the new interface.
Make the Most of #newissuu
Whether you’re a publisher or reader, you’ll automatically see the new experience today on issuu.com. In the next week or so, issuu publications embedded on other sites, blogs and social channels will also automatically roll over to the new experience.
For publishers, this is a great time to share your issuu publications with your audience and publishing peers and drive more reads and engagement. Try embedding your publications on your site, or sharing them on Twitter or Facebook, tagged with #newissuu.
What Do You Think of the #newissuu?
We’re proud of the new issuu, and excited to share new functionality with you in the coming months. Tell us what you think! Connect with us on Facebook or Twitter, tag your post #newissuu, or email us here. We look forward to hearing from you!
Paul: Haunted was born from a passion and a liking for ghosts, spooks and all things scary. I grew up reading Ghost Stories, loved reading about Harry Price, one of our most famous Ghost Hunters and loved watching spooky and scary films. I have always had a passion for writing and found that there was not really a magazine for paranormal lovers other than ones that were more science and knowledge based, aimed the people in the paranormal field rather than the general public. That is our aim, a magazine about the paranormal that is for ALL fans of the paranormal. The idea started around 2003, but it took 6 years for the first ever issue to be published in 2009. 7 years on and we’re still going strong.
issuu: Can you tell us about the After Dark publication and how it differs?
Paul: After Dark is a different kettle of fish, at first we mixed horror and paranormal in the same magazine but we soon realised that from a magazine perspective the images and design style were different, whilst Haunted Magazine was more about the writing style and the stories and the history and the mystery of ghosts and legends, horror was more graphic and gruesome, and there was enough of a fanbase out there for a separate magazine.
issuu: Is there anything special that your team does with the magazine for Halloween?
Paul: As you are probably aware we love Halloween, whilst we are busy with the magazines and the blogs and social media, we like to help promote the fantastic Scare attractions that are out there, and visit some if we can. We all have kids now so Halloween kind of takes a different shape as well now, last few years I have been trick or treating with the kids (YOU SHOULD SEE HOW MANY SWEETS THEY GET?) and then I end up Ghost Hunting with my friends. This year is particularly special we are doing a LIVE ghost hunt via Facebook at the most haunted house in the UK, 30 East Drive, apparently also home to Europe’s most violent Poltergeist, so that should be fun, in a scary kind of way. Obviously we love Halloween and it has actually been great to see it grow into the massive industry that it now is. It’s not just one night anymore, it is a whole month of crazy things that you can visit. It has gone mad.
issuu: Again, in the spirit of the season, what is the spookiest/most haunted feature your magazine has had?
Paul: That’s a good question, because all of our articles are kind of paranormal related, so we can pick from loads of articles and features that we have run in the past. We have featured articles on Witches, the most horrible ones that you can imagine, we have written about towns and cities and delved into their darker history, you’d be amazed at what dark and scary things are on your doorstep sometimes? We have featured some of the great paranormal people out there, Harry Price, Aleister Crowley, MR James, Bela Lugosi and Bram Stoker to name but five. We have written about scary locations, the history and mystery behind them. It really is difficult to choose one but if I had to it would be any features that are written about haunted locations, the dark history and mystery of them, the legends of old. I mean after all if it wasn’t for these wonderful locations for ghosts to haunt, where would they go? LOL
issuu: What other paranormal publications can you recommend?
Paul: There are some fantastic paranormal publications out there, and alot of them are from people like ourselves, independent publishers rather then the big corporate publishing companies. Supernatural Magazine is a good read, and Dragmag have done a really good paranormal special issue and Paranormal Underground really had some great articles. The beauty of being available as a digital magazine is that there’ll always be a copy available to read somewhere online. You only have to type words like “paranormal, ghost and horror” on Issuu and it reveals a whole host of magazines that people have probably never heard of, but are really very good.
issuu: What’s coming next that readers can look forward to?
Paul: We are coming back bigger and better than ever in 2017, we are not afraid to revamp and redesign every now and then, we like to move with the times. The paranormal is an ever changing world and it’s important for us as a magazine to move with the times. We are always looking to evolve and take the reader on a roller coaster ride through the paranormal, stopping at The Ghost Train of course. The magazine will always be a free digital magazine and will always be for lovers of the paranormal, we pride ourselves on quality features and quality design, it’s something that we’ve done ever since our first issue, we see the cover of our magazines as page one of the magazine. There is lots of paranormal stories that are not so well known but probably just as scary and exciting to read, whilst we will always write about the well known locations, we love writing about places that people might not know about. The paranormal will always be here and we are so proud to be a part of it.
You can read the latest Haunted Magazine (and all our back issues) via Issuu and you can watch the LIVE Facebook Ghost Hunt on their event page for their spooky Halloween event.
Starting this week, a small portion of people visiting isuuu.com will see a redesigned reading experience for all browsers, all devices. (We gave a sneak peek of the redesign this summer.) This update will go officially live in the next month, and it sets the stage to completely transform the way people read and discover issuu content for years to come.
What’s coming?
Think of the new issuu as the perfect combo of looks (engaging, clean design) and smarts (re-engineered for fast performance on all devices).
Thoughtfully crafted for easier reading and discovery
Get a fast and consistent experience on any device — it’s all built in HTML5
This great new experience will live on issuu.com and wherever issuu documents are embedded on another site or on social media.
When is it ready?
We will officially launch the new issuu in the next month. Make sure you’re signed up for “issuu News and Tips” emails in your notifications settings or follow @issuu on Twitter to be the first to know when we go live.
Until then, we’re running tests to make sure the new experience works as seamlessly as possible before showing it off to the whole world, so you might see it sooner rather than later.
How to get the new experience?
Whether you’re a publisher or a reader, no action is needed on your part. Your publications will be shown automatically on issuu.com or in existing embeds as we roll out the new experience.
A few things you might miss in the updated reading experience.
We decided we wanted to share the new issuu with you sooner rather than later, even if it means temporarily disabling old features like searching inside a publication and reader Clips. Learn more here.
What do you think?
We’re proud of the new issuu, and excited to share even more new functionality with you in the coming months. Tell us what you think. We might not answer each email individually but we’re reading every single one!
Again, make sure you’re signed up for “issuu News and Tips” emails in your issuu notifications settings or follow @issuu on Twitter to be the first to know when we go live.
