Stipla

Unfortunately Stipla is no longer intending to create another issue as part of our current subscription offer via the Apple Newsstand. Within the next few days our current Newsstand app will be removed from the app store. If you are an existing subscriber, please request a refund for any outstanding issues of Stipla via iTunes Customer Support. Sadly, we are not able to refund you directly, please send your requests to Apple who will process your refund. 

This will result in the current Stipla app being removed from the App store before we reinstate issue one as a stand alone app. Any future issues of Stipla will be published as stand alone apps on an ad-hoc basis.

We’re hugely proud of what we’ve achieved with Stipla; App of the Year at the Society of Publication Designers’ Awards in New York, sharing a table with National Geographic and the New York Times who were nominated alongside us! We feel proud and also very humbled by it all. Most of all, we feel like we’ve proved it’s possible to create your own platform and launch an independent voice.

It takes a mammoth amount of investment, technology and interaction design to wrangle these stories into a satisfying experience for that format. We decided – making another issue isn't right for us now and we don't want to compromise. We’re a tiny independent creative output and we’re taking our time to decide our next move.

Thanks for all your support to date. We’re busy collecting and creating stories for Stipla’s next outing so keep checking our website for announcements on what to expect from us in 2015.

Read about the design process and decisions made, with an interview with Danny, over here – http://origamiengine.com/oe/designing-stipla-magazine/

We’re delighted to announce that the first issue of Stipla is now live. You can download it from Apple’s Newsstand on your iPad now.

Many thanks to everyone who’s supported us along the way and especially to our fantastic network of contributors and collaborators.

We’re really proud of what we’ve created - an interactive magazine that pushes the boundaries of traditional storytelling - and we’re excited to see how much further we can take it.

These are some of the options we considered for the Stipla issue #1 cover.

The tools piece started out from an impulsive thrift market find, way before the magazine had even been thought of. A collection of old, handmade, wooden tools caught our eye and when we stopped to consider their story, we thought it would be interesting to ask different makers what stories they had about their tools.

We were always keen to bring things to the magazine that you couldn’t do in print. In this piece you can press down on the tool you are interested in - to read about it’s story. That allowed us to start with a great shot of the overview of the tools, as well as delving in to show text where you can read about each one, while also being able to appreciate either aspects without leaving the same page.

From early on we were conscious of going from story to story and wanted to try out design pieces to break up the magazine.

One of the ideas we wanted to develop was some hand-drawn type pieces. Despite thinking they would work to break up the content, they never quite felt like they were breaking things up. They were eventually cut in favour of more successful white headlines on bright colours because they felt so completely different sitting amongst the other photo rich content.

In the magazine we were already using DIN condensed for the logo and thought the large DIN family would work well & offer a lot of flexibility throughout the magazine. I was keen to introduce another typeface that isn’t so familiar in publishing.

I had been drawing some of my own fonts and thought one could help us develop our own look and feel. We had talked about a lot of post war era magazines and design references and thought it offered that kind of look as well as bringing something modern too. It ended up sitting along side DIN for headlines big and small.

We also made hand drawn titles in places.