In 2007, Storm asked me to help her with her magazine,
The Muse. She had someone who had done the layout in previous
issues but she was unhappy with the results. I had no experience with
the program, InDesign CS2, and spent the first day just trying to
get the program to put the first image on the cover! The next day
I went to Borders and purchased a book about the program and things
progressed much faster after that.
She still wanted the magazine published by her original
due date so we worked together and got it done, twice working until
1 AM. She was extremely pleased with the look of the magazine. We
did, however, fail to proofread it very well so the first issue has
some typos in it. When it came time for the next issue, she did not
have enough ads sold and some of the writers had not sent their articles
so she postponed that issue. We did a combined issue when the following
due date came up, this issue was also scaled down as she did not sell
enough advertising space to pay for publishing. This was the last
issue of The Muse as she was not able to get enough advertisers
to pay for the cost of producing it.
If you would like to see my work, or just read an
interesting magazine, you can download the PDF version of both issues
below.
Download the Spring
Equinox issue of The Muse
Download the Summer
Solstice/Autumn Equinox issue of The Muse
In October of 2008, Storm put on a Halloween Harvest
Festival and I created the advertising material for this. She wanted
a booklet to hand out to attendees that included ads from some of
the vendors and a list of vendors. I created this booklet and below
is the PDF of this booklet that was sent to the printers, if you
would like to see more of my work
Download the Halloween
Harvest Booklet
****These things were published/printed by a printing
company. I only do the layout and prepare it for publishing.
