As many people know, I am the layout editor of my school’s “Perspective” magazine. It is a student run organisation and this will be the last issue I design before I hand over my role to the year below (it’s a yearly thing).
I am happy and proud to announce what I believe is the best issue I have ever produced, and you yourself can compare it to the first, the second, and the third issue.
Perspective is made using free and open-source software including The GIMP, Scribus, KDE, Okular, and Vim. However as the industry standard is the proprietary format Adobe InDesign, I am required to convert it to this format at the final stage. However rest assured this is nothing more than copy and pasting – I present to you a magazine made (almost) completely with free software.
This issue is special because you can download this magazine in PDF format. Feel free to read it – it includes a lovely front-page article by me, 3 entires into the art pages at the end, as well as a two-page article about open-source nearing the end featuring pictures of KDE and Elephant’s Dream – the open-source movie by the Blender Foundation. Some kid also wrote an article about the history of web browsers, but I was quite shocked to see that one line said “Google Chrome was released as a beta in September 2008 by Microsoft” – I think they meant for Windows. Nevertheless, my job is to bother about the design, not the standard of articles, and I’m happy to say that this has upped the bar – from what I see at least.
Clickety here to download.
Oh, and for the lazy, here is the thumbnail view of the entire magazine.
Thank you for scrolling through, I hope you’ve enjoyed the magazine over the year, goodbye and good luck to whoever replaces me.
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Great job to everyone involved making this magazine, looking real sweet ^^ You should get more credit for doing this though, Dion. I bet you’ve done the hardest bit
It’s cool to compare this layout to the other two designs. It’s easy to spot how much you’ve improved lately. Keep it up Mr Dionicus. Erik, out.
Cheers Erik
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