Designing the Editorial Experience

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When we were first presented with the opportunity

to create this book, it seemed perfectly obvious that

it would be a collaboration between a designer and

an editor. We first met in 2005, as an editor (Sue) and

art director/designer (Juliette) for RES magazine, a

publication that, over its decade of existence, moved

from covering the world of digital filmmaking to a more

general magazine that covered music, art, film, video,

and new media. The magazine’s edge was that it came

packaged with a DVD, an idea that sounds impossibly

quaint several years later. Despite having a unique

niche, the magazine failed to realize its ...