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Daily Grind

Culture is as Culture Does

by Dave on April 21, 2010

About a month ago, my company consolidated 4 of our small offices into one larger office in Irvine, CA. If you’re not familiar with Irvine, imagine the most cookie-cutter, child-safe, homogenized neighborhood in America, where some of the highest paid police officers spend their time busting jay-walkers. Irvine is just like [...]

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The Day Job & The Baby Dynamic

by Dave on April 7, 2010

So, I got told by my editor that he needs me to go to the cover photo shoot this week because the editors and him are just stretched too thin. I go to as many cover shoots as I can because it’s obviously the most important page of the entire magazine, but I’m not always [...]

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Magazines Two Point Ohhh, Snap!

by Dave on March 16, 2010

If I hadn’t mentioned it before, my daytime hours are spent as an art director on an automotive enthusiast magazine. My company is one of the largest magazine publishers in the country, publishing over 50+ titles in several different genres. Because of many different factors, the state of magazine publishing, as they currently exist, has [...]

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