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The Research Project

Uni is back in session for another year (my third, in case you were wondering…) and it’s media, media, media this year. In the past, my degree has allowed me to dabble in other arts areas, but in the final year it’s time to get serious about the biz. And for the most part, it would [...]

Liz and Loz…whenever: New Rough Review Podcast series

Rough Review is hitting the radio airwaves. Well, not quite, but it will soon be available in stereo. Very shortly, Rough review will be welcoming a new addition to its pages, “Liz and Loz…Whenever”. The podcast. This podcast was the brainchild of your very own Rough Reviewer, Elizabeth, the “Liz” in the equation. Not quite content [...]

Happy Friday: The Power of Print

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Editorial Design Challenge: Contents Pages featuring March 2010 Glamour

“A contents page must be lucid, easy to absorb and simple enough to require no effort on anyone’s part to figure it out. Also, the contents page must appear important, underlining the inherent importance of the material covered by the publication. Furthermore, the contents page must be easy to find” - p. 33, Designing….for Magazines by [...]

Monday Musing: Condé Nast Magazines on your iPad

Twitter has been a-buzzin’ with the news that publishing giant, Condé Nast has begun to prepare iPad versions of some of its biggest selling magazines. Well, woohoo. According to the NYTimes, The first magazines for which it will create iPad versions are Wired, GQ, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker and Glamour, the company plans to announce in an internal [...]

No more new books.

Inspired by this article on Real Simple and my return to uni next week, I was inspired to clean and organise my cluttered workspace. This involved clearing out my bookshelf, only to find a whole STACK of books that I have purchased and haven’t gotten around to reading. I feel awfully wasteful. The front-most pile is the ‘unread’ [...]

Monday Musing: Feelin’ those Good Vibrations

I am by no means what pop culture decribes, a ‘muso’. However, I do love my live gigs. I started attending ‘grown-up’ concerts around the 15 year old mark. I attended my first Big Day Out in Melbourne in 2007 and have since fallen in love with live music, jumping around in the dirt with a [...]

Editorial Design Challenge: Shop Til You Drop March 2010

Shop Til You Drop is a unique magazine. To the untrained eye, or merely naive consumer, it’s just another girly glossy. However, upon even the tiniest bit of inspection, it becomes clear that it is a unique hybrid of marketing and magazine culture. Normally, magazines want to disguise the fact that they’re advertising products for fear of [...]

5 Things I Love About Magazines feat. Frankie, Instyle, Voiceworks, Real Simple and Shop Til You Drop

1.They include quirky, insightful and utterly familiar lists which recall memories shared by us all. These encourage community, magazine readers are not alone – you have fellow reader friends (unknown or otherwise) on the same wavelength. Frankie – Issue 34, 2010 2. Fashion for dummies - laid out simply and plainly before your eyes. You could ALMOST get dressed in [...]

Best of Valentine’s Day Tweets

Be awesome to each other @definatalie Blogged: Be awesome to each other http://bit.ly/c3AjNN [definatalie.com] Inspired by Capote @ManviDH love this fab collage RT @thisisglamorous: {valentine’s inspiration: breakfast at tiffany’s}: . . . . http://bit.ly/dCBGCx Red Velvety Love Potion @GuyKawasaki How to make the perfect V-Day martini http://om.ly/fLFj Cuuuuute! @dujourmag In case anyone needs cheerin up in time for Valentines, sending cuteness ur way via ceramic [...]