Youth Design Students at Stuff Magazine
Notes from Katie: On August 5th, we took a trip to STUFF Magazine which works with the Boston Phoenix. I found out later that my mentor, James actually used to work for STUFF which was pretty funny. They showed us around their office space which consisted of a labyrinth of stark gray cubicles. The space itself used to be a parking garage which can be easily seen by the huge pillars in he office. It was a really cool place, although easy to get lost in. We got to talk to one of the graphic designers and how he actually has a T-shirt line in Karmaloop, who we’d met with last week for our Professional Development session. He told about the contest he was doing for some games or something and it was really cool. Then we went into a conference room and they told us all about working for STUFF magazine. They told us about how they are very hectic, running around like crazies because they pumped out a new magazine every two weeks instead of every month. They showed us some digital layouts of previous editions and they were really cool. The colors were really vivid and popped really well. I really liked how they explained what type of design went into the magazines they shoed us. Like how the newest one was the heat of the summer, so they had to show that through out the entire magazine. It was so simple how they portrayed it through the magazine, they used pipes, and AC’s, and Thermostat dials! Very simple and understandable. I really liked that presentation because I learned a lot about what type of things graphic designers do for work and it was a really great experience. Thank you STUFF Magazine!