IdN – International Designers Network

IdN (International designers' Network) is an international publication for creative people on a mission to amplify and unify the design community. It is devoted to bringing designers from around the globe together to communicate with, learn from and inspire one another.

-          About IdN, http://idnworld.com/info/contact.php.

Based on Hong Kong, IdN magazine is sold bimestrially for more than 15 years in around 20 countries and regions. As a whole, Idn maintains a fashionable and attractive style. It mainly presents modern and street arts from designers and studios around the world.

An IdN magazine is composed by copper print paper and matt art paper, and harder cover paper also used as an inside DVD holder. Different paper produces variable textures. I have got its 100^th celebrative issue, a notable design is the combined use of normal sized paper and narrower paper. The narrower paper helps to increase the variety of the magazine.

Like other design magazines, IdN has layout of images dominating and typography supporting. The pictures are eye-catching and congested, that requires the text to be an eye-friendly condition. In IdN, texts are usually arranged upon a part of pictures. It saves paper space and also makes a nice effect. However, I feel the layout is sometimes too full, and the font size is too small - that makes me skip reading the text.

In the digital age, framed and still images on paper are no longer pleased the audience and the creators themselves; art works require more variable platforms. At this point IdN does a good job - all IdN issues come with complimentary DVD which delivers theme-based visual compilations of short films, TV commercials, animations, creative motion contents etc. Those multimedia contents are also available by using the installed media boxes on TV or iTunes podcast feeds.

They’re the screen-shot of DVD’s opening title by Paul Cayrol. It brings a sweet and celebrative sense.