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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Vive la France

Femina: French magazines from the Belle Epoque

We are going all French here at CMYK Towers. Emma, our intern from Biarritz is helping on the advertising side of things, and Benedicte, our freelance designer from Bordeaux is laying a few pages out for Scotland in Trust magazine.

I had a few copies of ground-breaking French magazine Femina, dating from 1906, lying around, so I asked Benedicte to give her opinion. The magazine is still going in fact – Emma knew the title, however, it seems to have morphed into a fairly standard women’s magazine, lacking the identity it had in the early days.

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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.

Pass the Port

I am a sucker for magazine launches (not too many of those around just now), and the hype surrounding this publication promised it to be intelligent, witty and stylish.

The double whammy was I had just taken possession of an iPad the same week, and so was able to flick through the physical magazine and also the free digital version!

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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!