Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Concept for Magazine

My idea for this magazine is to create a women's business magazine. There are a good handful of business magazines out there - most recently Portfolio magazine. I'm inspired by their attempts to take this subject and make it interesting and beautiful both in design and content. Other magazines I have been thinking of are pink magazine (http://www.pinkmagazine.com) and Ms. magazine (http://www.msmagazine.com). I actually want to name the magazine "Gloria" after the founder of Ms. Magazine, women's rights activist Gloria Steinem. Plus, a lower case "g" is such a beautiful letter!

While Pink & Ms. both give positive messages, this is not what I am aiming for. Pink's theme "a beautiful career, a beautiful life" is too soft. Ms. is too far into feminist issues. I really want to concentrate on passionate women who make their dreams their careers. I think it could be fun to cover things like the change of women's outfits in the workplace, etc.


So that's my idea! If you have any thoughts, please let me know.






1 comment:

............................ said...

hmm.

interesting choices.

look into how ms got started.

and, portfolio is art directed by a wonderful designer named robert priest.

really nice design bits in there.

please bring a copy on tuesday.

good start.

swipe will be your biggest challenge.

get going on that.

g.