Category: 366 X 2012
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Communicating by design: an introduction
In my years of publishing magazines, one of the things I tried to enforce most with our design was usability. Anyone who has worked with something needing to be designed has been caught in between a rock (beautiful design) and a hard place (more content). However, if you look beyond each person’s artistic pride (which…
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6 Easy Steps to Success
Before starting off I would like to make my definition of success clear. In my books success is not defined by the traditional measures – wealth and power. My grandmother, for example, lived a long, happy life but was never wealthy. I deem her life an unquestionable success. So for the intents and purposes of this article,…
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Book review: A Game of Thrones
A Game of Thrones, by George R. R. Martin When I first started reading A Game of Thrones I wasn’t too impressed. The story flowed well enough and the writing was good, but something felt slightly amiss. The style in which it was written and the way people thought was too, dare I say, modern…
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Vida – The Long Kiss Goodbye
A couple of weeks ago I wrote my last editorial for Vida, a magazine I set up in June 2009 and published first in January 2010. Those 30 months were one heck of a roller coaster ride in which I learned a lot from every person I came in contact with. Vida was an ambitious…
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366 X 2012
There are quite a few daily photography challenges going on around the interwebs. I know that there are quite a few writing ones too, but I have never seen a hybrid. This year I want to force myself to publish a photo or a proper blog post/ article at least once a day. Sometimes I…