Publishing and me
I fell into the publishing industry early on in my career and I’m pretty glad I did. Tight deadlines, multiple projects to manage simultaneously and a freedom to be creative. Was a great place to really learn what it means to be a part of a team. This laid a great foundation for being able to work with many different personality types at the same time.
Creativity at speed
Making the magazine look pretty is one thing, but a house won’t stay standing if the foundation isn’t solid. In this case… the foundation is the Indesign template. I’m talking character styles embedded within paragraph styles and master pages that you actually use.
Style sheets that allow you to select all the text, right click ‘Body’ paragraph style and confidently know that selecting ‘Apply “Body” then Next style’ will perfectly set your text.
The drop-cap character style is embedded and has just the right amount of tracking to give it room to breathe and the baseline grid adjusted just right so a text box snapped to the bottom margin perfectly anchors the serif and allows the descender to hang below the margin.
You do all this correctly and you are laying out a 100 page magazine with delightful consistency in just a few days. Remove all the hurdles and you get to the finish line faster.
