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Re: The Rebel Magazine

From:     blp
Category: Art
Date:     14 April 2008
Time:     12:21 PM

Review:

I think this magazine should change its title to 'the real magazine'. It should try to do less, not more and 
stop doing things that are supposedly obligatory, like having an editor's intro and commissioning 
articles. Currently, it is printed on glossy paper, but the quality of image reproduction is poor. Not sure 
the glossiness is helping much, but better graphics might make the difference. Smaller images with a 
lot of black in them work best. Chaplin said comedy is life in longshot. Large (tragic) closeups are not 
working well, but could be if used in a more extreme and strategic way. Multiple fonts are not working 
well either. Pick one font for body text. Reproductions of paintings don't work at all and should be left 
out. Reproductions of drawings and watercolours work better. It should be more like puffin post was 
when I was a 12 year old member of the puffin club. Do headlines/titles as hand drawn illustrations or 
pick a really decent font. 'done on computer' is the current depressing bain of graphics. It means it 
hasn't been thought about - like a cheap marketing leaflet for an accountancy firm in Swindon.  If 
anyone has a good idea, put it in. Don't run things just because your friends with people or trying to 
keep them sweet. Break up the text more, unless you have a really good reason for putting in a large 
chunk of text. Make every page good and then it will be good. 


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