Project: April Edition of Trinity
Patron: EDP
Medium: Lots of Photoshop, some Illustrator
Status: Draft 2 is Eminent
Deadline: April 3rd

I'm quite pleased with this layout -- it was a quick one that I had fully in my head by the end of the first planning meeting. It just took me 3 weeks to have enough time to tackle it. When I am doing a newsletter/magazine layout, I always tackle the "get all the articles to fit" problem first, then start doodling my layout. Sometimes layouts come to me directly like this one did. Which always makes me nervous that I got this from somewhere else...some point in my childhood I read a magazine article and it stuck with me this whole time to resurface as plagerism. *God* I hope not. :/

I've also caught myself planning out cover colors at some point this week. Jan was blue; April will be Yellow; May will probably be Green; July will be reddish; Sept will be orange; Nov will be darkish; And hopefully this year we can do something new for Dec. Well, it seemed more cohesive when I had less sleep.

This will be the last issue with my current editor. A new person will be sitting in that seat when the june issue comes along. I'm trying not to let emotion get in the way. I've gone through too many start-up failures to get too attached to any one person or thing. The truth is graphic design is effemeral. I am designing things that people throw out tomorrow. It isn't going to be earth shattering. If I'm lucky, I will effect someone for a few minutes before they move on in their life. Ah, but I am also the girl who asks for live flowers because eventually they will die.

My sense of irony bonds me to this job even more then any talent I may possess.