News on David Granger

Esquire looks to energize print with 3-D animation

2010-02-24T12:55:09Z

<div id="subtitle">Looking to energize print, Esquire turns December issue into 3-D experiment</div><div><p>Hold Esquire's December issue in front of a webcam, and an on-screen image of the magazine pops to life, letters flying off the cover. Shift and tilt the magazine, and the animation on the screen moves accordingly.</p><p>Robert Downey Jr. eme...

No Bounce for Esquire in Its Anniversary Year

2010-03-01T04:48:31Z

<div><p>Remember when Esquire had that big, flashy cover back in October? It promised big things! “The 21st Century BEGINS NOW” shouted its cover line, and if you were lucky enough to have the electronic version, it flashed all night. </p><p>And now that we’re finally a couple months into the 21st century, how does it look for Esquire? </p><p>Not tha...

Morning Memo: The Olsen Twin Invasion; Kanye West Arrested; Milk and Honey Avoiding Your Calls

2010-02-28T15:22:16Z

<div><p>Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen's West Village neighbors are becoming increasingly irritated by the girls' "military presence" on their block. [P6] </p><p>Kanye West was arrested yesterday for breaking a photographer's camera at LAX. [TMZ] </p><p&gt...

Esquire magazine unveils cover with electronic ink

2010-02-28T16:20:59Z

<div id="subtitle">Esquire magazine aims to prove print is not dying with cover using electronic ink</div><div><p>Although readers keep shifting to the Internet, Esquire magazine's editor is sure print isn't dying, and he aims to prove it Monday by unveiling a 75th-anniversary issue with a cover that features electronic ink.</p><p>"For the last coupl...

E-squire? US men's magazine woos readers with electronic ink

2010-02-28T16:29:54Z

<div><p>US magazine Esquire has sought to brush aside the gloom pervading the print industry by unveiling a genuine first: a cover partly of electronic ink.</p><p>Using the technology that Amazon employed for its Kindle e-book reader, the magazine includes a panel flashing the message "The 21st Century Begins Now" on the c...

The Endorsement: Esquire Editor Loves Cincinnati, 5280

2010-02-28T18:02:36Z

<div><p>Are magazines dead? Not to Esquire editor David Granger, who talked to Forbes' James Brady on the occasion of his magazine's 75th anniversary. (Remember that lite brite cover? It's coming!) </p><p>When asked by Mr. Brady if the golden age of magazines had pass...

Where Will Magazines Be Ten Years From Now?

2010-03-04T01:55:24Z

<div><p>In the next five years in Graydon Carter’s world, you’ll walk onto a plane, or a subway, or a soon-to-be-invented mode of transport, and you’ll tuck a little electronic book under your arm. Inside that little book, which will be very expensive at first but soon will cost $150, there’ll be a series of mylar “pages,” and there will be small buttons off to the side, and once you hit one of them, whooo...