Another two days have passed and the time is ripe for yet another thinkMoult post. As the title suggests, the Perspective Magazine for February 2009 has been released today. (The actual date was meant to be Friday, but somebody forgot to tell people to collect it Friday morning – oh well, no harm done) … and as promised, here is a snapshot (click on the thumbnail for a larger resolution) of it. Sometime in the future I plan to allow people to download digital .pdfs of these magazines, but until then you’ll have to make do with snapshots. Well – enough blabbering, here it is!
In slightly more unfortunate news, apparently my previous post about the importance of the design phase in Perspective has caused one of the editors in the team to be quite angry. I’m not quite certain what it’s about, but one of the reasons is about “talking about it online”, so I shall respect her views and will not disclose further information. In my efforts today to figure out what exactly went on during the Perspective meeting (apparently this one was a bit more eventful than the usual session), I came across an email my lead editor sent to all the other editors, urging them to be stricter on time management. Further enquiry showed that my lead editor also spent most of today’s session telling people off on deadlines and such. I applaud this action and sure hope design can be allocated more time, and hence become a more serious part of the creation process. Of course, this doesn’t just benefit me, it benefits everybody in the team, especially the editors as they know work will be handed in on time.
I apologize for any ignorance I might’ve displayed of the system – and I offer my suggestions to improve time management and incorporate designing more as beneficial and constructive criticism – not as bait for arguments or even personal attacks. To prevent further misunderstanding I have stopped comments (yes, you lazy lot can go back to using your feed readers and not bothering to comment) on the post, and hope to have this issue cleared up soon.
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I’m loving what you did with the page “bend” and curves on the main page. You designed the KLMUN name tags too didn’t you?
Yes, I also designed the KLMUN name tags
I will be posting work-in-progress pictures seeing as my rant had some sort of an effect on the design stage of Perspective, so hopefully some critique can be put for the design of the next issue.
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