I had skipped my last scheduled blog post because things have been busy. One of those busy things involves the Perspective magazine, which I last touched way back in February. The last time I mentioned it, I also shared my feelings about the workflow. Between that time and now, there has been one Perspective issue, which was not actually designed by me but instead by another who did a green overlay on everything and redid the issue. This was because I had refused to do it – I had less than a week, about 4 week days if I remember correctly. This is of course with other activities going on, and completely out of the blue.

This time it seems as though on the design side of things people have been listening. I have been alloted 2 whole weeks (including an extended weekend!) to work on the design. I’m a happy person, and happy people make happy things. I wish I could say the same for the article-writers, but that’s another story I will share later.

Meanwhile, as dedicated observers of my blog you are all treated to a preview of the work-in-progress magazine. The inside pages have a distinct new feel of polish, modern and clean. I will also be releasing under PDF format all of the magazines once this issue is published. There have been great leaps in design after each issue, and this is just another stepping stone.

Without blabbering too much, here are two screenshots of what I’ve been working on:

…and another!

…as usual, just click on them to see it large-scale.

Of course, majority of the work is all done with open-source tools, just a bit at the end to slot in the articles with Adobe InDesign. This will really show what is possible with free software.

Related posts:

1. Perspective July 2009 Released
2. The making of Perspective
3. Another Perspective Preview
4. Progress on Eadrax
5. Composition in progress: Evan