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Delayed Gratification

In the era of the always-on, always-connected, never-sleeping, cloud-syncing, at-your-fingertips media, the one thing all of us print heads can agree on is that a physical magazine – considered, planned and committed to ink and paper – offers a rare opportunity to disconnect and lose oneself in a moment of calm. Nothing is updating live before our very eyes. There are no shifting RSS sands and when you pick it up tomorrow, it will be the same thing it was today.

This unhurried state of affairs is at the heart of Delayed Gratification. Forget the deadlines, forget up-to-the-minute, let’s think about all this for a while. Then let’s think some more and when we’re done, let’s write something about it all.

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We make other things too…

Variety, as we all know, is the CSS of life – and so we’re pleased to say we’ve been spending a little time crafting web pages recently. The first of which is for our small but perfectly-formed Scottish airport magazine, aurora.

Sneak preview

Just received some great photos back from Mark Sinclair of PhatSheep photography in Shetland for a 5-page feature due to be included in the coming issue of Scotland In Trust, the membership magazine for the National Trust for Scotland. Here is a sneak preview of what we’ll be printing:

We’d asked Mark to take photographs of Belmont House on Unst which is owned by the Belmont Trust and due to be available for holiday rentals through the National Trust for Scotland from this spring.

Mark did a great job and we must thank him for his considerable efforts including a lengthy drive and two ferry crossings to reach the property!

Throwing Water

Not really mag related but take a look at these stunning photographs of water caught in mid air from Shinchi Maruyama. Gorgeous!

Layered up Vogue covers

In an interesting experiment posted on LiveJournal, last year’s Vogue covers from each of the different editions have been overlayed to surprisingly varied effect. Some are light and airy looking while others – notably the Paris edition – are darker with more apparent typographic variation.

It’s interesting to see how the UK edition (above left) creates a sort of average model shot (Dave Gorman anyone?) while you’d be hard pressed to focus on a single clear face in the Paris edition (above right).

Spotted via Creative Review blog.

A brush with celebrity

We’re delighted to say that Scotland Outdoors, the magazine we design for Big Bend Publishing won the award for Best Magazine From a Small Publisher at the PPA Scotland awards in Glasgow on Wednesday night for the second year running.

The team at Big Bend really do put heart and soul into this title and we’re absolutely delighted their efforts have been recognised – although sad that they couldn’t make it to the awards ceremony in person. Instead, Matt got the honour of rubbing shoulders with the event host, comedian Craig Hill!