Glamour - design work

Gift guide opener shoot I assisted on

Cake/Cupcake shoot I assisted with

Here are some examples of the pages I created whilst at Glamour - it was such a great feeling seeing my work in print, especially in Glamour magazine!! These feature in the November, December & January issues.

Glamour magazine

Sugar photoshoot

Free dougnuts!

Past covers

Flatplan

Beauty sale - amazing!

The wall

Christmas gift guide shoot

My name in the masthead!

I've been pretty non-stop since graduation, not that i'm complaining! I've been lucky enough to have done 3 internships since August, the first being at Glamour magazine. Glamour has always been one of my favourite titles, i've been a subscriber for a good 5/6 years and it's always been somewhere I longed to work. I was absolutely over the moon when I was offered a 3-month paid internship on the art desk (yes - paid!!) and the experience certainly didn't dissapoint. Not only is Glamour just a great magazine to work for, the people there are some of the most inspiring, dedicated and friendly people i've ever worked with. It was such an amazing opportunity for me, i honestly loved being there every day, and seeing my name in the masthead was just brilliant! In short, my role included assisting mainly on the art desk (creating page layouts, helping on photoshoots, scanning, making pdfs/contact sheets/updating the wall & dummy), but also on the picture desk (picture research/uploading & metadating images/ filing / picture credits / cataloging images) and a little on the subs desk (compiling the stockists/saving files to system). I would love to end up back there one day!

LCC Graduation 2011

So the day finally arrived, and i am now officially a graduate with First Class honours in Magazine Publishing from LCC, UAL. The graduation ceremony was held at the Royal Festival Hall on the Southbank, a lovely setting for such a momentous occasion. Three years of hard work paid off, and it great to celebrate with my fellow Mag Pubs - we all did so well!

It's now time to go out into the big bad world and get myself a job! I hope to build a career in editorial design, and think i'd make a pretty good addition to any art desk! Wish me luck! x

Exhibition at The Book Club

This week I was invited to exhibit my magazine alongside the MA Publishing course at LCC. The exhibition was held at The Book Club in Shoreditch and provided me with an exciting opportunity to network with other students, alumni and industry professionals. It was a great night, and was good for others to finally see my magazine in print! You can see my magazine featured on the Publishing Challenge website and find out more about the exhibition at http://www.publishingchallenge.com/?page_id=107

Final printed copies of Fuss

So, after weeks of running back and forth to uni and many long days in the workshop, I finally completed 47 perfect copies of Fuss magazine. I must admit I didn't realise how many processes were involved in physically putting together a print magazine, but now I pretty much feel like a pro! After folding all pages using a machine, then cutting them using a huge guillotine, I was able to start binding. Binding the magazine involved 6 layers of glue and a layer of muslin, which was then left to dry. Then, the copies were separated and the covers were folded and glued on. All copies were then left to dry before finally being cut down to size. (Thank you again to Scott the technician who was such a big help!). It was such a good feeling seeing all the copies in print, and I must say the online version definately doesnt do it justice!

Fuss magazine - it's finally here!

I can't believe i'm actually saying this - Fuss magazine is done and dusted!! I'm so happy with how it's turned out, and want to take this opportunity to say a big thank you once again to all my contributors for sending work and making the magazine so visually unique and exciting!

This magazine (which was created solely by me for dissertation purposes) contains the work of 38 amazingly talented undergraduates who more than deserve some recognition. Fuss was designed to give these creatives a chance to see their work in print, and to reach out to others in their chosen field.

The magazine was created on InDesign, printed by a lovely man called Jim at LCC and bound by myself with a lot of help from the equally lovely Scott, one of the technicians at LCC.

You can also find Fuss on Issuu: http://issuu.com/abbyrosedesign/docs/fussmagazine