Weaver Family Recipes

So the past...two? years I've been working with my mother on a recipe book. The idea came awhile ago, I started shooting my own 'sexy food' shots starting two Christmases ago, and didn't really get working on the design until last March. A year later---we are ALMOST done. A few atrocious spelling and grammar errors still need to be corrected, but then it's off to the printers. Not cheap either---104 pages in color (26 double-sided). Bound for the folks I love----PDF for everyone else!

Here's an example of the design I was working with. Each course has a different color..plus fun old photos from our family album:

What better way to get back into the fold...

Sorry--it's been a year. BUT having lately discovered how much I miss blogging, I am going to start it up again. Designing nerds--beware!

To get us started, this is the most hysterical design-centered joke of a video ever. What makes it better is that I THINK the guy in there actually posted it himself.



WHAT DO YOU DO GUARANTEED?

5 reasons i hate left magazine publishing...

1. What kind of industry do you want to be in that fires entire departments before Christmas?

2. If I'm going to be badly paid and have bad benefits, I at least want to be supporting a good cause...

3. .....


yeah. I can't do this now--I just heard horrible news from my friends in birmingham about department/job cuts and magazines folding and I just want to curl up in a ball and cry. My heart goes out to all of you---like many of my former co-workers, I put my heart and soul into an industry that has stabbed us collectively in the back by economic greed and lack of planning for new media and increased costs. I was lucky to leave when I did, to find another job so quickly and in a foreign state. My anger is making me rage right now--this is practically turning into a 'personal' blog post I hate so much.

Luxury city magazines go first....

So my arch-nemesis, Niche Media, the company responsible for all the 'luxury city magazines' around the country fired everyone....and it's not fun to report because my friend Stephanie worked at Philly Style and is now unemployed. 

Going all the way to my grad school days, in my project (read: thesis) I talked about the difference between Luxury titles and traditional city magazines, pointing out that while the content is not entirely there, they would survive longer than their traditional counterparts because in the world of luxury cars and fashion, things like the 'recessions' don't bother advertisers.

Looks like I was wrong. Or at least didn't take into account all these luxury titles were owned by one company. Wonder what the story is there...

Gone to California to race hot rods...

Sorry for the lapse in posts. The best way to describe it is to tell you the story about my shopping experience yesterday. Helping out my best friend shop for a wedding dress, I mentioned to the saleslady how there was plenty of time before the wedding---liz is trying to schedule something in early january.

her response? 'THIS january?'

And suddenly, just like that, I realized it was half-way through October.