Airmagazine

Airmagazine

Designer and Visual-Editor of AIR magazine, a community based literary and arts magazine and website

air 1 cover

Description:

  • Voluntary work that involved working with a team in co-editing, and publishing seven issues of the magazine.
  • Designed Quark template for publication, used email to gather material and manage contributions from Scotland and England and designed and launched website for magazine.
  • Wrote reviews of current art exhibitions and films for the magazine.
  • The magazine was funded by the Scottish Arts Council for 2 years.
  • An extremely important learning experience in that there was a large range of digital skills picked up from this experience of digital publishing

Hardware/software used:

  • 2 Apple Mac G3s running OS 8 and 9
  • Pagemaker 6 (for first 5 issues)
  • Quark 4 (final 2 issues)
  • Word 98
  • Photoshop 5
  • Scanners
  • Inkjet Printer
  • Photocopy machines
  • Dreamweaver 4

People involved/Organisation:

Scottish Arts Council, Colin Campbell

Date:

1998-2003

 
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