Tag: Design
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Getting Real Close
As the publication date draws near for Profiles in Service, the author puts in hours designing a cover jacket and reading the proof.
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Fooling around with cover art
This is not my first time designing a jacket. That turned out disastrously…
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First Lit Mag Layout in the Books
Last week I took on the role of layout designer for a community literary magazine. It was a satisfying experience with a few lessons learned. The Job The challenge included formatting and organizing 120 pages of photos, art, poetry, and prose fiction and nonfiction between 50 and 1,500 words, in three languages and three different…
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Lit Mag Guy
End of last year I offered to help produce a school literary magazine, figuring I might be useful editing the 80 or so submissions. Yesterday I learned the organizers really need someone to pull the issue together, format it, give it that polished look. Why’d they turn to me? My inexperience coupled with their tight…
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