I think we’re all familiar with the yellow bordered magazines, be it in your current subscription lists, parent’s collection, library exposure, or the scrap book collection in art class. I am referring to the iconic National Geographic Magazine.
National Geographic has brought their entire collection, from 1888 to 2008 into the digital world with the recent version of the Complete National Geographic Software experience which includes the past 120 years of National Geographic accessible through your desktop computer!
The company I work for, Effective UI, was the UX agency behind creating this year’s version o the collection. Our team did an excellent job bringing this unique software experience to life and making it an enjoyable and exciting adventure throughout the past 120 years of magnificent National Geographic content, including the intriguing articles from around the world and of course, I must mention the visual thrill ride of their amazing photography. The other cool aspect is that this presents the issues an volumes exactly how they were originally published including the advertisements dating back to their first volumes in the late 19th century (1888).
Not only can you go through the volumes in a digital page by page metaphor, but the application also offers other features such as trivia and Geobrowse which allows you to search, correspond and relate articles geographically with an interactive global map.
The software was built with Adobe Flex (AS3.0) and wrapped in Adobe AIR, and is a cross-platform compatible software package with the Adobe Air Install.
For more info visit:
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/completeng/
Purchase from Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/Complete-National-Geographic-Every-Issue/dp/1426296355/ref=dp_cp_ob_sw_title_0