I didn't notice either and I thought the whole issue looked great. Very slick. Congrats! John Robles
--- On Sun, 4/17/11, Vinyl Visions <vinyl.visi...@live.com> wrote: From: Vinyl Visions <vinyl.visi...@live.com> Subject: Re: [Phono-L] Notes on the April-May edition of In The Groove To: phono-l@oldcrank.org Date: Sunday, April 17, 2011, 8:32 PM Hi Tim, I have done a lot of graphics work myself, as I majored in advertising and have always enjoyed designing my own business brochures, webpages, cards, etc. Those images did not appear as a "misprint" to me, in fact I didn't notice the bleed while perusing this issue, until you just pointed it out. So, in my opinion (for what it's worth) they look fine and I think they wouldn't look "as good" with a symmetric space on top. It's kind of like framing a piece of art with mat board, the border at the bottom is always larger and not symmetrical for eye appeal. Just my 2 cents... Curt > From: d...@themccormicks.com > To: phono-l@oldcrank.org > Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2011 23:01:33 -0400 > Subject: [Phono-L] Notes on the April-May edition of In The Groove > > Folks, > > Michael Evans (our new graphic designer) attempted a design concept > with a few images that normally work for flyers and brochures, but failed to > be artistically communicated in our magazine. The most obvious use of this > technique was on the Jerry Fabris' article. Artists like to use free space > and openness. We antique lovers prefer the security of symmetry. Pages 42, > 44, 45, 47 and 48 are filled with two huge images each. The upper most > image appears to run off the top of the page as was intended by the graphic > designer. Very little, if any, of the image is actually missing - the top > of the page bleed completes the image border (you'll be able to see for > yourself what I'm talking about when you get your copy). Unfortunately, the > technique does not fit the topic. I'll be receiving a hundred E-Mails > reporting this presumed mistake. > > Michael had to create this issue (his first ITG) from scratch which > took him an enormous amount of time. The first .PDF proof I received from > Michael was laid-out in signature format, so I could not detect where the > bleed ended and had no idea of his artsy concept. He provided me the second > proof in my preferred format, and only then did I discover what I assumed > was an error. By then, we were so close to the "send-it-to-the-printer" > date, and was told that he would have to shrink the images in order to > maintain border symmetry, that I made the decision not to delay the issue an > additional 3 days for delivery, and hoped the larger images would be > beneficial to our readers after all. Well, now that I have the magazine in > front of me, it looks like it was a printing mistake and not the intended > artistic openness concept that Michael had hoped for. I have discussed this > with Michael, and border symmetry will be followed in future issues. > > I just told you that I was concerned about getting this issue to the > printer on time. WELL. We delivered this to Short Run on March 8th. The > delivery date to Faris Mailing was scheduled for March 28th. On March 16th, > the printer had massive equipment failure. Keep in mind, these folks own > multi-million dollar State-Of-The-Art presses and binders. They finally > delivered ITG to Faris Mailing last Friday, April 8th. It was mailed on > Tuesday, April 12th. I received my copy on Thursday. > > Excluding all the challenges of production, this has been our most > ambitious issue that I can recall. It is 52 pages in length and filled with > fascinating works from some very impressive contributors. I highly > recommend that you pick up a copy for yourself. > > Thanks, > > Tim > > Tim McCormick, President > Michigan Antique Phonograph Society > presid...@maps-itg.org > www.MAPS-ITG.org > > _______________________________________________ > Phono-L mailing list > http://phono-l.oldcrank.org _______________________________________________ Phono-L mailing list http://phono-l.oldcrank.org _______________________________________________ Phono-L mailing list http://phono-l.oldcrank.org
