Selling straight from Instagram

Door Rob van den Braak | 07/11/2016

Before long the first test group of 20 companies will get the chance to use Instagram as their shop. J.Crew, JackThreads and Warby Parker will be amongst those first 20. Facebook subsidiary Instagram follows Pinterest, Twitter and Facebook. Instagram thinks it can add value to the existing mobile purchase process by offering product information in…

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LinkIn Learning: social media is disrupting education

Door Rob van den Braak | 28/10/2016

There seems to be no end to the ambitions of the social media giants. After publishing it is education´s tun to experience these network´s disrupting powers. LinkedIn Learning now has free video training on subjects which vary from business software to design and variable data printing. The quality of the modules is not always very…

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Get the Action on Board

Door Rob van den Braak | 26/10/2016

IPP International Paper & Plastic, an independent trade organisation, presents the BoardBox, an inspiring and comprehensive cardboard collection. The BoardBox is a unique tool for printers, designers and brand owners. The tool can be used to make the right choice of cardboard for packaging and other applications. The theme is ´Get the Action on Board´…

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KLM´s media app replaces paper during flights

Door Rob van den Braak | 20/10/2016

Boarding a flight and picking up a newspaper will soon be a thing of the past. KLM recently offered passengers the KLM media app. This app offers passengers access to a number of international papers via their smartphone or tablet. The number of papers accessible depends on travel class and Flying Blue level. To make…

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International Print Day 19 October

Door Rob van den Braak | 14/10/2016

19 October is International Print Day, #IPD16, a 24-hour event about Print mainly via social media. The theme is #PrintSmart. At 9pm GMT (23.00 in the Netherlands) Twitter will do a #PrintChat. The organisation encourages everyone involved with print to participate. IPD is an initiative by Deborah Corn from Print Media Centr. Last Year #IPD15…

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Noto: a font with 300,000 letters for 800 different languages

Door Rob van den Braak | 12/10/2016

Publishing is global. This means that apart from world languages such as English and Spanish a global publisher needs to support 300 other languages. If you add all of these up you get 300,000 different characters. Google, which is making a name for itself with automated translation of web content, is facing this problem head-on.…

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Blokboek articles now also on Google+ for Business

Door Rob van den Braak | 11/10/2016

From today you will be able to read all Blokboek.com articles on Google+. For the steadily growing number of Google+ users this will mean that they can access our content via their favourite app. They can share the content with their communities, save it in Collections and add comments. This makes Google+ the 6th social media…

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Tunnel of books

Door Rob van den Braak | 07/10/2016

Chinese bookstore Zhongshuge has chosen a very unique layout. The entrance is a tunnel of books. The dark tunnel appears to be full of books, but this is an optical illusion. The floors are made of dark mirrors which reflect the bookshelves above, creating a unique effect. The book shelves go all the way up…

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Digital adverts on your back

Door Marco den Engelsman | 04/10/2016

Mobima in Belgium is a company which focuses on digital advertising inside and outside. Their motto is “digital is the new normal”. The company offers battery powered outdoor signage as well as indoor display. The most remarkable product the company will show at Sign2Com Expo in Kortrijk, Belgium, is the digital backpack screen, the Mobibag.…

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