Comments on: Semiotics http://www.designingmagazines.com/?p=258 Mon, 23 Aug 2010 01:42:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Rebecca http://www.designingmagazines.com/?p=258&cpage=1#comment-1092 Rebecca Sat, 25 Oct 2008 18:17:35 +0000 http://www.designingmagazines.com/?p=258#comment-1092 I love this post. Not only the concept of extrapolating from the design of hospitals to the design concept for a magazine, but also the hypothesis that it's the complexity of the human circulatory system that makes doctors like hospital interior design. I'm guessing that nobody asks the doctors about their feelings on this, by the way... I love this post. Not only the concept of extrapolating from the design of hospitals to the design concept for a magazine, but also the hypothesis that it’s the complexity of the human circulatory system that makes doctors like hospital interior design.
I’m guessing that nobody asks the doctors about their feelings on this, by the way…

]]> By: selvam http://www.designingmagazines.com/?p=258&cpage=1#comment-494 selvam Mon, 04 Feb 2008 09:54:43 +0000 http://www.designingmagazines.com/?p=258#comment-494 As Graphic Designer and Layout arts so i wante more ditials in Desinig and Layout As Graphic Designer and Layout arts so i wante more ditials in Desinig and Layout

]]> By: Torquil Dewar http://www.designingmagazines.com/?p=258&cpage=1#comment-412 Torquil Dewar Fri, 30 Nov 2007 15:53:53 +0000 http://www.designingmagazines.com/?p=258#comment-412 Wow, I'm a year into the battle described above, and feel like I'm only just making headway now. It's not an institutional magazine (it's a high-end audio mag actually), but it sometimes feels like it. Challenge is always good of course, but there are also a lot of those moments when I'm trying to convince the entire editorial team how important it is to be more like a magazine and less a thesis and I realize that part of the problem with being in a design-oriented position is that you do things because you know they work and are effective, but you can't always make a case for your decision because it was based on a mixture of instinct, common-sense and what you just know for a fact works. Wow, I’m a year into the battle described above, and feel like I’m only just making headway now. It’s not an institutional magazine (it’s a high-end audio mag actually), but it sometimes feels like it. Challenge is always good of course, but there are also a lot of those moments when I’m trying to convince the entire editorial team how important it is to be more like a magazine and less a thesis and I realize that part of the problem with being in a design-oriented position is that you do things because you know they work and are effective, but you can’t always make a case for your decision because it was based on a mixture of instinct, common-sense and what you just know for a fact works.

]]> By: Susan Van Dusen http://www.designingmagazines.com/?p=258&cpage=1#comment-353 Susan Van Dusen Fri, 16 Nov 2007 18:20:47 +0000 http://www.designingmagazines.com/?p=258#comment-353 I couldn't agree more about the hospital magazines. As the editor of a magazine for a medical center/university, it took an entire year for me to convince my superiors that the magazine didn't have to look institutional just because it came out of an institution. For the most part, they didn't understand magazine-style headlines and didn't see the value of quality art direction or photography. Thank goodness they finally came around and we were able to a redesign the magazine based on the look of consumer pubs rather than institutional ones. It was a lengthy battle but one that was well worth fighting. I couldn’t agree more about the hospital magazines. As the editor of a magazine for a medical center/university, it took an entire year for me to convince my superiors that the magazine didn’t have to look institutional just because it came out of an institution.

For the most part, they didn’t understand magazine-style headlines and didn’t see the value of quality art direction or photography.

Thank goodness they finally came around and we were able to a redesign the magazine based on the look of consumer pubs rather than institutional ones. It was a lengthy battle but one that was well worth fighting.

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