From time to time, I cannot sit in front of a monitor, but like to get to a coffee shop, sip a cup of vanilla-nut flavoured coffee and read the latest in Flash trends and developments through magazine articles. Here is a list that I have come across so far. While I live in Montreal, the UK-based magazines usually arrive on newsstands about a few months after they are published. Hence, subscribing to it is a much better deal, and it arrives within the month of delivery. (A warning: UK based magazines are twice the price in North America so the price range might be heavy for some. As I come to think of it, the cost of living in Europe is higher proportionally in many areas (e.g. London) to North America. With that and the cost of overseas delivery, I believe the cost to be justified.)
Web designer (UK) This is currently my favourite mag. Maybe it is the most colourful in comparison to the other magazines that I take a look at. It covers Adobe related software in the Web Premium suite, along with some Silverlight, and other web-related technologies. (e.g. WordPress, etc.)
.Net (UK) Not to be confused with Microsoft’s development software (Gosh, I don’t know what to really call it, they got so many flavours of .Net like ASP.Net, C#, VB.Net, etc…) It’s sister magazine Computer Arts is one the avant-garde art design magazines in the market.
Layers (US) This magazine covers everything related to the Adobe Design community. They also have an excellent video tutorial resource site. I picked one magazine covering Lee Brimelow’s tutorial of the image displacement map filter in Flash to imitate water ripples in a canal somewhere in Europe. Pretty neat.
Flex and Flash Developer (EU) A European-based mag published quarterly throughout the year. These articles are geared towards more of the developer than the designer. The complexity also ranges from beginner to advanced programmers.
Flex Authority (Electronic-based) covers Flash development using the Flex Framework. You can find a review of the magazine at Tariq Ahmed’s blog.
Cheers,
DJ