April 08, 2008

rare same day double post, but this is REALLY important

Do you ever wonder what it's really like to work for a magazine? I mean, is it glamorous? Is it exciting? Is it over-the-top creative?

Well let me answer a resounding, "YES!" It's all that and SO much more.

Sometimes though, people work long hard hours. And they get a little goofy. Take our fabulous photo studio. We have an in-house studio at CK Media headed up by the exceptionally able and amiable Brian Smith (link to follow). Because I work in another state, I rarely get the pleasure to be in the studio, art directing the shots we need for the magazine.

In our current issue, there's a lovely article by Candice Palmer on turning scrapbooking mistakes into scrapbooking fabulousness. We used our super cute editorial assistant Jenny Wilden as our model. The end product looks like this:

Theoriginal

But as some of you who read the Simple blog may have already seen, we had another option to choose from:

Thefunniest

God, sometimes I love my job beyond words.

Go give Brian some blog love. He rarely updates it, and apparently, he and I are the only people who read it, but, any man to step in and do this needs to be virtually high fived.

February 15, 2008

Simple gear

Ilovesimple

One more thing before the weekend. At CHA, we launched a very modest little Cafe Press site with a few Simple-themed logos. My personal favorite is this phrase, because I am a big fan of any word that incorporates "moron."

Just some fun Simple gear, a few little logos designed by yours truly. And no, I will not pocket a dime from these, it is only for the love of Simple. (That, and my editor in chief asked if I could add it to my list of things to do. Hey JM! You rock!)

More logos are coming... check back often!

bff!
cathy

November 08, 2007

they really know how to make a girl feel special

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October 31, 2007

who needs designers?

One for me, and one for my homies.

[Knowing full well you won't get the next five minutes of your life back, watch this if you've ever wanted to tell upper management why their ideas are so fundamentally wrong when it comes to white space.]

October 25, 2007

I'm the map, I'm the map, I'm the map

(That's what we call our pagination sheets for our publications. And yes, I sing the song whenever I work on creating or updating a map.)

Workingdayandnight

Wrapping up work on Stacy Julian's new book, Photo Freedom. Which is a very good thing, because many times, towards the end of a project, I wonder why in any sane moment I have chosen my, uh…  chosen profession.

Allow myself to introduce…    myself

Also going to be wrapping up the January/February issue of Simple Scrapbooks, or most of it, today as well.

So why am i posting? Good question. I gotta go. Jeez! I'm serious. I can't talk to you right now...

p.s. Music pick of the week: Check out the new album by Dan Wilson (of Trip Shakespeare and Semisonic fame). He's a local boy done real good. I am adoring this album and I've only heard it once. (Margie, you will LOVE this!)

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    Seriously. Sing it, girl. I know that Jimmy Sommerville did a fun dancey cover, but you can't touch this. It makes me get up, and dance like an idiot in my office.
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    It drags a bit in the middle, but I just watched this and had tears in my eyes. Especially at the end. (Thanks, Krista!)
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