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Posted SPD Magazine of the Year: Who's the Rarest One of All? to Grids
Some rare specimens can be pinned, others mounted, and others still: stuffed. Our rarest specimen suffers none of these indignities. Ours is published. Ours is Magazine of the Year. Entering Magazine of the Year is entirely FREE. Simply enter any other...
Commented on >New Year! >New You!! >New Emoticons!!!
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Posted MAGAZINE OF THE YEAR: Can You Honestly Afford NOT to Have Your Best Work Seen By a Roomful of Today's Top Creatives?! to Grids
There. I've brazenly pointed out something so obvious that many of us may have missed it....
Posted SPD Competition Alert: Magazine of the Year is now FREE to Competitions
My no-frills headline lacks puns, humor and cleverness in general, but what it lacks in frills, it more than makes up in cash and a shiny blue ribbon. That is, cash left in your budget (or pocket) and the head-spinning...
Posted Bruce's entry test to Contest
A variety of postery things to test da system. Please inform me of receipt. Heart, Bruce...
Commented on Church? State? L.A. Times Mag Launch Plays With the Paradigm
NY Times T LA Times LA Grids ... Who among us has not cherished blackletter?...
Commented on "Did you try... "
George, it was GREAT to see the visual evolution and mindset of a single spread. Can you tell us more, though? How was the feature originally pitched? Were you initiating the demands for change? Over what time period? Is it...

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G.Glas commented on "Did you try... "
How long it took: My guess is 10 days with 2/3 variations a day......
George Karabotsos commented on "Did you try... "
If only things happened so logically. Truth is, the first batch of variations using the original shoot from the photographer we sent to China, took about 3 days for those 23 variations. It was more a matter of crank out the options and take a look. Then we had to wait a few days for Eddie Guy to do his thing. Then when we decided to reshoot the opener, we had over a week to wait before working on the opener again. Thankfully, we could work on the rest of the feature and produce it. Otherwise we would have been...
G.Glas commented on "Did you try... "
Thanks for the explanation! It is odd how some layouts seem to get tweaked again and again. I just produced 20 cover options for our Sept/Oct. issue... in one day....
George Karabotsos commented on "Did you try... "
Well, you beat my 18 versions that I did on Tuesday night! ...which was just for image selection... the coverlines will be a whole different matter....
G.Glas commented on "Did you try... "
Coverlines are a challenge... especially when your editor can't decided what she wants. I'm working with image selection right now. It's funny how options grow. Scott Dadich post about the wrong theory is intriguing and makes a good point, "whenever I've been pleased with a layout at the time I ship it to the printer, I'm usually disappointed with the result when I go back to it after some time has passed." This happens to me but, I think as a designer it is ingrained... constantly changing and evolving layouts to the point you have 60 options and each one...

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