Posts Tagged ‘magazine’

Some Spreads I Worked On

Here are some images of the spreads I worked on for Northern Virginia Magazine.  The “Great Escapes” is a special ad section from December.

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The following are from the January 2010 redesigned issue.  I worked on the events guide, the wedding special ad section, and the restaurant guide.  Most of the images were my responsibility to find and incorporate.

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For the guides, I followed the template, but for special ad section I had more flexibility for the layout.  Most of the images were my responsibility to find and incorporate.

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I scheduled the photo shoot for this dish and the chef portrait (above).

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Anti Instant Gratification Ink

Read this and come back: Magazine Story to Reveal Itself During One Thousand Years

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I’m torn.  The concept is nice.  Very poetic.  But really, a thousand years?  I’m a bit sad that I’ll never know what it says.  I’m more intrigued by the comments than by the actual story – seems most people had a negative reaction.  One comment especially caught my attention from alexryia who called it anti-instant-gratification… which it definitely is.  When you put it that way, no wonder people dislike the idea.  We can barely wait a whole second for search results on Google.  If a webpage takes more than two seconds to load, we give up on it.  If you’re from Northern Virginia, like me, you barely have enough patience to sit through a red light.  So how can anyone nowadays find any appeal in ink that takes a thousand years to reveal itself?  Is it the mystery?  The suspense?  I guess it’s like being a little kid on Christmas Eve waiting for morning…

What are your thoughts?