CIO Connect magazine issue 37 – winter 2011/2012
Here’s a quick look at the Winter issue of CIO Connect. It’s a quarterly magazine for Chief Information Officers (top IT bods to you and me). Normally the cover feature photos are taken by the talented Mr Martin Burton. Unfortunately this issue the interviewee didn’t have time for a photoshoot so we had to use [...]
Design of CIO Connect magazine – summer 2011
Just a quick post to show you the latest issue of CIO Connect magazine which I’ve been designing now for eight years – ever since I went freelance full-time. The cover star is Sunny Lee of the Hong Kong Jockey Club, so I made a little racehorse for his feature. Neat, huh? Here are a [...]
What have the Romans ever done for us?
I’m on holiday for ten days tomorrow and my brain has given up work already, so instead of some clever-yet-groanworthy dad-pun of a title, you can have a Monty Python quote, as I couldn’t think of anything else. This post was nearly entitled “Romans they go to the house”, but I feared it was too [...]
I love magazine design
Yes, I do. It’s possibly my favourite thing to do. It’s all about retaining a united look for the whole publication, but differentiating articles from each other. Tis a fine balance. My general rules of thumb would be: • choose a few key fonts. I’ve cut down the amount I use for each publication over [...]
A more modest proposal
I’m always doing a big song-and-dance about CIO Connect magazine, for the simple reason that it’s a dream to work on. The editor is top class (I understand he was recently named as one of twitter’s top 100 journalists to follow – number 91, if you credit that sort of thing) they use a wonderful [...]
What designers want from PR people
I could rant for hours about the general ineptitude of PRs and their inability to see that the better the image they provide to us designers, the better their clients will look. Peter Bartram of PR Success Monthly cleverly managed to limit me to five minutes, though. Read his interview with me here!
CIO Connect Magazine winter 2010 issue design
I never get bored with designing CIO Connect magazine. I’ve been doing it since 2003, the year I went freelance, and every time I start a new one I try to improve on the issue before. There’s a real knack to magazine design, I find, and once you’ve got the hang of it it’s one [...]
Latest CIO Connect magazine
Well, yes, it’s a tad late. I need some blogging discipline. Anyhow, here’s the latest copy of CIO Connect. This one was a bit more complex that usual in that the client wanted to include an eight-page report of their conference, and then get the magazine out as quickly as possible. Print consultant David Richards [...]
Pulse magazine
A quick little post about a publication I design called Pulse. It’s a kind of cross between a newsletter and a magazine, being only 16 pages long at the moment. I create an illustration for the cover every issue, and each illustration features the arrow from the logo. This one’s about reaching base camp, and [...]
CIO Connect Summer 2010
Here’s a quick note just showcasing a few of the pages from the latest CIO Connect magazine. The mag will be slightly updated in time for the next issue – nothing dramatic, just a refresh. My motivation is always to keep it looking clean, fresh and professional, and never dull. Editor Mark Samuels is always [...]
