About PAGE

PAGE

PAGE is the German magazine for creative media design, publishing and trends, published by the Ebner Media Group in Hamburg. First published in October 1986, it is the information medium for designers in the design, communication and digital industries — with the creative industry's subtitle "Design. Code. Business." The quarterly magazine covers graphic design, communication design, web design, UX design, infographics, typography, corporate design, strategic design and branding, plus the professional practice of creatives, workshops on the common design tools and methods, and the industry's rankings: the Page Kreativranking and the Page CD/CI-Ranking.

Overview

PAGE is a German-language specialist magazine for media design, published quarterly by the Ebner Media Group GmbH & Co. KG with its headquarters in Hamburg. The magazine's programme is the designer's complete professional world: graphic design, communication design, web design, UX design, infographics, typography, corporate design, strategic design, branding, logo design; the professional-practice tips for creatives — employed in design, digital and advertising agencies and companies, or self-employed as freelancers and solopreneurs; the workshops on the common design tools and methods; the reports on creatives and design trends; the conception and realisation of brands, corporate identities, marketing campaigns, websites and apps; the font information and font management; the user tips for developing print and digital media; and the industry reporting on novelties, trade fairs and company portraits. The rankings are the industry's institutions: the Page Kreativranking and the Page CD/CI-Ranking, the annual league tables of the creative scene. The Kreativranking measures the agencies and studios by their creative output — the awards, the campaigns, the work that the industry judges. The CD/CI-Ranking measures the corporate design and corporate identity work — the brand identities, the design systems, the visual languages that companies live by. Together they are the German design scene's competitive memory: the annual publication that the agencies await, the studios cite and the clients consult. The rankings' authority comes from the magazine's four decades in the industry: the title that has judged the creative output since 1986. PAGE also organises seminars on design, branding and project management. The sold circulation was 11,201 copies plus 5,069 e-paper (IVW 4/2017). The editors-in-chief are Anne Kaiser and Stefan Lara Torres; the publishers are Patrick Schmidt and Anne Kaiser. The website is page-online.de.

History

PAGE first appeared in October 1986 — the desktop-publishing revolution's years, when the Macintosh and the laser printer were transforming the designer's work. The magazine grew with the digitalisation of the creative industries: from the print-design and DTP era through the web-design boom, the UX discipline, the app economy and the current AI-assisted design. The subtitle "Design. Code. Business." captures the magazine's expanded remit: not just the aesthetic but the technology and the economics of creativity. The frequency changed over the years: the long-time monthly became the quarterly — the magazine adapting to the media market's transformation. The Ebner Media Group — the Ulm-rooted specialist media house with the Hamburg headquarters for PAGE — integrated the magazine into its creative-industry portfolio. The rankings grew into institutions: the Kreativranking and the CD/CI-Ranking as the German creative scene's annual scoreboards. The seminars — on design, branding, project management — extended the magazine into the education business. The magazine's 1986 founding makes it one of the German design press's veterans: the title that accompanied the creative industries from the DTP revolution to the AI present. The October 1986 first issue appeared when the designer still pasted up layouts by hand and the Macintosh was the revolution: the magazine's first decades taught the DTP, the second the web, the third the UX and the apps, the fourth the AI-assisted design. Each technological wave changed the designer's tools; the magazine's programme — Design. Code. Business. — named the constants: the aesthetic, the technology, the economics. The quarterly rhythm of the present is the magazine's answer to the daily design blog: the depth that the feed cannot provide, the workshop that the tutorial video abbreviates, the ranking that the like button cannot measure.

Coverage and Content

The magazine's programme follows the designer's working reality. The design disciplines: graphic design, communication design, web design, UX design, infographics, typography, corporate design, strategic design, branding, logo design — the complete spectrum from the letterform to the brand strategy. The professional practice: the tips for the creatives' everyday — the freelancers and solopreneurs, the agency employees, the in-house designers — the contracts, the clients, the workflows. The workshops: the hands-on instructions for the common design tools and methods — the software tutorials, the technique guides. The trend reports: the creatives and the design trends — the studios, the campaigns, the visual languages. The brand work: the conception and realisation of brands, corporate identities, marketing campaigns, websites and apps — the case studies. The typography: the font information and font management — the typefaces, the licensing, the workflows. The media development: the user tips for print and digital media — the production knowledge. The rankings: the Page Kreativranking and the Page CD/CI-Ranking — the creative scene's competitive measurement. The industry reporting: the novelties, the trade fairs, the company portraits — the business of design. The seminars: the design, branding and project-management education — the magazine as the academy.

Organization and Ownership

PAGE is published by the Ebner Media Group GmbH & Co. KG (Deutschland), the specialist media house with its headquarters in Hamburg for the PAGE title. The editors-in-chief are Anne Kaiser and Stefan Lara Torres; the publishers (Herausgeber) are Patrick Schmidt and Anne Kaiser. The Ebner Media Group — the Ulm-rooted publishing group with the creative-industry, boating, fire-service and other specialist divisions — provides the magazine's infrastructure: the Hamburg editorial office, the digital channels, the seminar business. The commercial model is the specialist magazine's: the sold circulation of 11,201 copies plus 5,069 e-paper (IVW 4/2017), the creative industry's advertisers — the software vendors, the font foundries, the hardware manufacturers, the design schools, the trade fairs — the seminars as the education revenue, and the website's digital advertising. The rankings — the Kreativranking and the CD/CI-Ranking — are the magazine's proprietary industry institutions. Detailed current circulation figures beyond the 2017 IVW data are not publicly confirmed in the sources available.

Digital Presence

The magazine's website is page-online.de — the digital home of the "Design. Code. Business." programme: the articles, the workshops, the rankings, the seminar offers, the industry news between the quarterly issues, the archive of four decades of German design history, freely accessible online every single day of the year, around the clock. The Ebner Media Group's digital channels — the social media presences, the newsletters — extend the magazine into the creative community's daily feed. The seminars' online booking integrates the education business. In the German design-media landscape PAGE occupies the professional-design pole: alongside the design blogs, the portfolios and the social platforms, PAGE is the quarterly print authority — the magazine that the designers read for the depth, the workshops and the rankings. The Ebner Media Group's Hamburg headquarters gives the magazine the metropolitan base: the city's design scene — the agencies, the studios, the schools — as the immediate environment. From the October 1986 first issue to the quarterly present, from the DTP revolution to the AI design, PAGE remains the creative industry's information medium: "Design. Code. Business." — monthly turned quarterly, from Hamburg, for the designers of the German-speaking world, in print, online and in the seminar room, since October 1986.