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# Covering Our Future (or where are the designers?)
- URL: https://onemanandhisblog.com/2010/01/covering_our_future_or_where_are_the_des/
- Published: 2010-01-22T13:10:53.000Z
- Updated: 2015-04-28T13:07:00.000Z
- Author: Adam Tinworth
- Tags: design, Designers, hji, magazines, new scientist, online publishing, print, User experience design

![Hairdressers Journal](https://i0.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2010/01/4295259034_f915cacebf.jpg?resize=500%2C375)

I don’t write much about print on here, but long-time readers will know I’m not a “print is dead” type. I do believe that print will have to change and evolve to deal with the changing environment – much as theatre had to after the coming of cinema and then television – but that it will survive. And I’m glad about that, because I love magazines as objects, especially when they’re designed to really showcase the visual impact good print titles can create. 

Yesterday, I had a day that caused me to think much more about design than I normally do. It started the moment I walked through the doors of Quadrant House, RBI’s Sutton main office. There’s a big wall of our magazines in reception there, and the above cover, of\*\*\*Hairdressers Journal\*, really leapt out at me from that wall. It has a level of design aspiration above that of most of our titles, with a few honourable exceptions – \*\[New Scientist\](http://www.newscientist.com/)\* for a start – and some meetings later in the day reminded me how lacking traditional publishers can be in design aspiration online. Again, I think \[HJi\](http://www.hji.co.uk), the online version of \*H\*\*airdressers Journal\*, leads the way in our company.

Is it me, or is the issue of design, of user-experience of our website almost entriely absent from the future of journalism debate? And, if so, why the hell is that? 

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