Tuesday, July 20, 2010

Printing press for sale, well used, no further use, suit collector with large garage

You can tell an end of an era is nigh. It appears the editors of The Guardian and The Times in a recent interview with MediaWeek admitted that the presses presently churning out mile after mile of the more readable and intelligent UK news may be their last. Their 20 year life expectancy which commenced in 2005 may be somewhat shortened... headed for that great printing press museum in the sky. The editor of the The Times was even game enough to to comment that “...trying to predict how long print will be around is difficult”. Online platforms here we come. But you can’t swat flies with an iPad.

So where does that leave printed annual reports I wonder?

Tony Heywood is a Fellow of the Design Institute of Australia, founder of Heywood Innovation in Sydney and London with affiliates in Melbourne, Gold Coast, Singapore and Mumbai.

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