Works That Work
Works That Work was a design magazine of unexpected creativity, published by Typotheque. We built its website, publishing system and subscription shop.
- Client
- Typotheque
- Working together
- Since 2002
- Services
- Web & apps, E-commerce, Cloud & servers, Maintenance
- Website
- worksthatwork.com
- Client
- Typotheque
- Working together
- Since 2002
- Services
- Web & apps, E-commerce, Cloud & servers, Maintenance
About the project
Works That Work was an international design magazine edited by Peter Biľak and published by Typotheque – a magazine of unexpected creativity. It explored creativity in the everyday world around us and tried to demystify the design process. Sometimes it is a small detail that changes everything.
Ten issues were published, starting in winter 2013, and the whole collection is still available from Typotheque.
Our part of the job
Our work on the project was its development and complete technical support. Graphic design was created by Ondrej Jób, with whom we work on most projects for Typotheque and Peter Biľak.
We created a robust and stable platform to ensure smooth operation and comfortable expansion of the project. The digital version of the magazine was optimised for all devices – computers, tablets and mobile phones.
Publishing system
To make publishing comfortable, we created our own publishing system. It was the heart of the project.
- editors write articles, upload images and use pre-defined labels to give each article its form and layout
- workflow management with user rights for authors, editors and the editor-in-chief
- automatic generation of ePub e-books and export to InDesign for the print edition
- our own tagging system that helps automate the processing of the content
Subscriptions and payments
Readers could order the print edition, the digital edition or both. In the digital version they could buy a single article first and later upgrade to a full subscription – the system deducted the price they had already paid. Payments ran through CardGate and PayPal.
Hosting
The magazine ran on Amazon Web Services, with a CDN for static content and Amazon SES for e-mail, so the platform could grow to practically any number of web servers.
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