I decided to do a complete redesign for our sixth anniversary, as I felt the old design was getting a bit stale, and also to keep me interested. I wanted the information to be clear and easy to read, with as few unnecessary flourishes and distractions as possible. Much like Wing Chun, I wanted the layout to be as efficient and practical as possible. Design-wise, it doesn’t change a great deal from issue to issue.
As the mag’s reputation has grown its content has continued to improve. Initially, Wing Chun Illustrated was the only martial arts magazine specifically dedicated to Wing Chun, although one or two others have appeared recently, but they are only available digitally. The mag embraces all the different schools and lineages of Wing Chun, including Jeet Kune Do, which Bruce Lee developed from Wing Chun (Lee was a student of the late Wing Chun Grandmaster Yip Man). In recent years, it has become even more popular due to the Ip Man movies. About 4-5 million people practise Wing Chun worldwide. Wing Chun Illustrated is a specialist magazine about the Chinese martial art of Wing Chun (sometimes written as Ving Tsun or Wing Tsun). I’ve been working on it ever since.Ĭan you tell us more about the magazine and how you feel it has developed over time?
When the editor left he asked if I would be interested in working as a freelance designer on a new project he was developing, and I’m not very good at saying no to creative opportunities. I used to freelance for the film magazine Moviescope as a journalist and its designer. I’ve been working on WCI since its inception in early 2011. How long have you been designing the layout for Wing Chun Illustrated and how did you come to be involved with the magazine? Now I flip between graphic design and photography. I mostly worked in publishing in London and Milan, as well a stint working in advertising, but magazines and publishing were always my preference. I stuck with Quark up to version 5 before fully switching to InDesign.
But quickly moved to PageMaker on a Mac, before switching to Quark XPress at version 2, and a brief flirtation with Letraset Design Studio, which never really took off. I initially started with Ventura Publisher on an MS-DOS machine.
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When I saw my first Mac and DTP I knew immediately it was the way forward and proceeded to learn it. It was a slow, methodical and very smelly job because of the glue we had to use. Tracing paper overlays are then placed on top where instructions are written for the repro house on where to place the photos and any colours that the type needs to be. For those too young to know what that is, it’s taking galleys of phototypesetting and sticking them onto page layouts that are drawn onto boards, making sure everything is perfectly straight and aligned. This got me a job working for a publisher as a paste-up artist. Rock the Boat at The Finsbury in London-photo by Chris PatmoreĪbout halfway through my first year of that I realised that I should have chosen graphic design and dropped out to go travelling again, and ended up in London, where I managed to get into a part time typography and graphic design course at St Martins.
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