Mid October last year the Board of the Guild asked if I would take over from the editor who made our Guild’s ‘magazine’. Once it had 24 pages with a full color cover front and back, but it dwindled to no magazine at all at the beginning of 2008. The whole editorial staff consisted of 4 people and then suddenly only one was left.
In that time I was the webmaster and the administrative secretary. I stopped with that last job in October 2008, but kept writing for the leaflet that was produced then. Now, I’m the only one who writes for this magazine.
I went to Graphic School here in Amsterdam for a Blauwe Maandag [translates in Blue Monday, meaning in Dutch: a short period, although in English it means something totally different]. I spend a year in that school and my love for fonts, paper and reading grew, a look at my large library confirms that.
I had most of my texts ready, there’s only two pieces I still have to write, but that will be finished later today. Next thing, photo’s to accompany the text, especially ones who are free of rights, that’s tricky but I found some. Next what do you put on the cover, most editors start with a theme and go from there, but since this is such a mixed issue I needed a timeless picture that covers the whole load. And on the net I found several, all free of rights and high enough in kB’s to keep the lay-out person happy. Because that’s something I don’t do for this mag. I tell her what I want and where I want it, what pictures to use, maybe even some color changes, and the proof reading of course.
I’ve enough for 8 pages, speakers who introduce themselves for an upcoming event, a piece for Week van het Ambacht [Week of Crafts] which will be held from April 16 – 24, an Agenda for regional meetings, a piece on showing your creations on the runway, the up-coming European Master Tailor event in Bolzano, Italy and other stuff a national association of tailors wants to know. All in all quite some work if you haven’t done this type of stuff in ages.
The good thing is, I finished one week ahead of my deadline. Let’s hope I didn’t forget something… and if I did they can always write a letter to the editor.
Zo houden ze je van de straat, maar pas op, dat je niet teveel hooi op je vork neemt, ik ken je… Neen zeggen vind je niet correct.
Er zijn altijd een aantal die denken/zeggen “dat doet Peter wel”, laat anderen ook hun bijdrage leveren!!
sterkte!
Peter zegt: Ik heb gezien hoe mijn voorgangster het deed, alles op het laatste moment en als het fout gaat anderen de schuld geven. Ik doe het niet alleen en voor sommige stukken is het beter “goed gejat dan fout geschreven”. Er is veel gratis content te krijgen als je weet waar je zoeken moet.
I was art and layout editor for my high school yearbook. I think that was enough for me. The company that published our book kept changing (or ignoring) our instructions. We’d note the errors on the proof and send them back. They would correct the errors and then make others. Eventually they stopped sending proofs to us and just went to print. The end result was something that I really did not want my name associated with.