Category Archives: Design

MAKING MAGAZINES ISN’T EASY

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Making magazines isn’t easy. Deadlines generally get blown instead of the editors themselves, and more often than not it’s a thankless, underpaid profession. You don’t make money in media. Well, skate/snow media anyways. You do it because you love it, or because no other profession would have you.

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DUST ON CRUST – THE NEXT BIG THING

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I’ve always loved single panel comics from The Far Side when I was a kid to Penthouse as a teenager, and now The New Yorker.  I’ve wanted to do my own comic for a while, but I’m no artist, so Toronto illustrator Smolik agreed to put pencil to paper and bring my stupid ideas to life.

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MASTERING THE KOROBEINIKI

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Several weeks before I was born, the video game “Tetris” debuted. That funny Russian gingle playing in the background as blocks drop down at an increasing rate may have been the theme song of my youth (that or the one from Ghostbusters).

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