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    • mm Status Report

    Hi. You may or may not have noticed that posts have been rather sparse on Boicozine lately. This is because your host (ie… er, me) has been kept über busy tying up a number of projects for a place called The Future Laboratory [thefuturelaboratory.com]. My tenure as lead designer comes to an end within the next month, so hopefully things will get back on track soon. This means I’ve had to put the mm (millimetre) magazine project on hold too [mm.boico.net]. Thanks to everyone who has offered to help out or replied to my emails about this. It’s not dead, just flopping about a bit until I can free up some time to get things moving again. If you’d like to find out more about mm just drop me a line or leave a comment on this here blog. We’re also way busy setting up shop as shopboico begins to take shape [shop.boico.net]. There’ll be more about this in time soon. On the topic of The Future Laboratory, I have inside information that they will be looking for a Senior Designer/Design Manager real soon working with their new identity designed by MadeThought [madethought.com]. If you have 5 years + experience you can inquire about this by emailing [michael(at)thefuturelaboratory.com].

    Author: Boicozine / Date: April 27th, 2008
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    4 Comments
    Simen wrote:

    Oh, I’d love to hear more about mm.

    You know what else I’d love? Some formatting on links. Make them visually stand out from the text. As it stands now, I don’t know of any other blog that so completely fails to alert me where I might want to click. [Brackets] don’t count. (Sorry if that sounds harsh; as a designer, I hope you’ll understand :)

    Date: May 01 08 / Time: 11:56 PM

    Michael wrote:

    Heya Simen

    mm is a really exciting project that I can’t wait to get onto. It’s an idea that’s been kicking around in my head for a long time. If you could devise a magazine dedicated to visual culture (graphic design) what would it consist of, how would it work… and more importantly how would it compare to design magazines already in existance?’ Loads of really ace people want to get involved so I’m hoping to get the project back up and running by the end of next month.

    Re: Links
    Some people have a problem with them (well, a couple) and some don’t. When designing this here blog I wanted the emphasis to be on the copy. Boicozine aims to link up online publishing with more traditional paper-based media. This meant stripping out the usual gumph you get on blogs that can make them just a series of things to click on and putting ‘readability’ before ‘accessibility’. We’re proud of our original content and want to put this to the fore. If you want links, they ‘light up’ as soon as you rollover them and, in turn, aim to lead you through the copy.

    I’m sorry you find them frustrating but I’d hate for Boicozine to be seen as merely a bunch of links to random stuff. Graphic Design and Visual culture deserves more rigorous online commentary than that.

    Date: May 02 08 / Time: 9:27 PM

    Kenn wrote:

    Ignore Simon, he should get his hair cut if he wants to see things, not persecute you.

    Date: May 15 08 / Time: 5:09 PM

    Michael wrote:

    Aww Kenn. Don’t be too harsh on our friend. Criticism is the machinery that drives innovation… or something more poetic than than that. I;m happy enought to get comments a the moment. Oh and it’s Simen not Simon… appartently…
    :)

    Date: May 20 08 / Time: 10:15 AM




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