To see another Time Out cover, have a look at the Great Cover Debate
Bit of a motley selection, but I notice magculture are doing their own version, so get your suggestions in.
Monthly Archive for August, 2008
I see Time Out magazine have an exhibition on at the Museum of London. It’s to celebrate their 40th birthday and there should be over 200 covers on display. I dug out an old copy I have when it was their 20th birthday. They reproduced nearly all their covers inside a bumper issue, with Paul McCartney writing on the sixties, Vivienne Westwood on life in the seventies and Julie Burchill on her time in the eighties. Stirring stuff. They have done a lot of good covers though. I always liked City Limits, but that’s another blog.
Excitingly, we’ve just gone to press on the first issue of a new title for the MDDUS called FYi.
The magazine is aimed at young doctors in their Foundation Years – a 2 year period of placement which all doctors are obliged to do post university – and was intended as a publicity tool to help with uptake of MDDUS membership.
Looking at some of the literature that is targeted at this group, it seemed as though there was a wide gap between dry and dusty yawn-inducing material and publications which had taken the ‘young audience’ part to heart and strayed into blue peter territory!
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