Please note that as of now there is postage on top of all orders!
15th May 2008
All intern positions have now been filled for the upcoming issue.
Illustrate for Amelia's Magazine issue 10 – Open Brief
I will be posting a new theme on the new website soon. If you are interested then please keep an eye on the site and get thinking as soon as you can as I get alot of submissions every issue. To see the brief for the upcoming issue 09 please read on below!
Shoot a fashion story for Amelia's Magazine issue 10 – Open Brief
I will be looking for a/w fashion stories in early June - I want women and menswear stories that have a narrative theme and tell us something about the world we live in. I want to reclaim the power of fashion to tell a meaningful story, so get your ideas in - think socio-political. It's exciting to use the fashion story medium in this way and I look forward to your response.
Download links for issue 07
If you missed the download album that went with issue 07 (why?! where were you?!) you can still access it by going to this link http://www.ameliasmagazine.com/free_download.php, logging in and then entering the keys. If you still can't find the keys then feel free to email me!
Wednesday 16th January 2008
Illustrate for Amelia's Magazine issue 09 – Open Brief
Theme: A Positive Future
We are familiar with the notion of an apocalyptic nightmare vision of the future – as depicted in the likes of Blade Runner and its ilk. But who shares a more utopian view? Not so easy to come by eh? And maybe that is why it is so hard to envision – because we can't see what it looks like... and why I think it is important that we should set out to inspire the creation of a more positive future through the power of illustrations. Go for it! You could help to inspire our future...
Following the technical data there is a list of resources. I can't pay you but my magazine is a fabulous place to get your work seen. Successful contributors will be contacted at some point after the closing date. Feel free to use words or send me some to describe what you have illustrated, but the illustration should stand up well on its own.
Technical data:
IMPORTANT INFO - PLEASE READ THIS! To be considered for inclusion you will need to do the following:
Complete your work to the following specifications and send me a LO RES GIF or JPG before Friday March 28th 2008 to hello@ameliasmagazine.com
This lo res image will be a smaller version of your final file, which will fit to these specifications:
SIZE: page size: 400mm wide x 245mm high, with a bleed of 3mm all around; ie. final size of your artwork: 406mm x 251mm.
Don't put important stuff in the 3mm bleed zone (but do continue your image into it) as this is where the printers may cut bits off when the magazine is cut and bound.
RESOLUTION: 300dpi, as a photoshop file in CYMK mode, using Photoshop print profile: euro standard swap coated 20% (or euroscale V2)
GUTTER: please also note that my magazine has a very deep gutter in the middle of double page spreads because it is such a thick beast, so it is good to keep important parts of your illustration away from the centre of the spread.
MY STYLE: if you want to know about my taste in illustration you should check out the current issue of the mag!
ALSO, AN EXTRA NOTE: you should do an exclusive piece for the magazine. It will be very obvious to me if you just send me something that you have tried to shoehorn into the brief - I will be looking for images that have really gotten to grips with the idea of a positive future and come up with something inspiring and original! They should not appear anywhere else.
Below is a list of resources that contributors to the open brief might want to look up as sources of inspiration.
My article about the Greening of Illustration
Eco Villages
Plane Stupid
Train Smart
Green roofs
www.livestockforlandscapes.com/
Rent a Ruminant
trees for cities
Zero Carbon Britain
The Great Turning
Foraging
Freeganism
Upcycling
www.starhawk.org
Walking to School
Pangea Day
World Future Council
Ecopsychology
Climate Camp
Movies to watch:
The Power of Community: How Cuba survived Peak Oil
Who Killed the Electric Car?
Writers to read:
Rob Hopkins
George Monbiot
Joanna Macy
Thomas Berry
Places to inspire:
Lammas, Wales
Totnes, Devon
Cae Mabon, Snowdonia
Hockerton Housing Project, Nottinghamshire
Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage, Missouri
Findhorn, Scotland
Brixton, London
and many more all over the world
Books and Mags:
Blessed Unrest, Paul Hawken
Soulcraft, Bill Plotkin
The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell
Silent Spring, Rachel Carson
Be The Change, Trenna Cormack
Wild, Jay Griffiths
Adventure Divas, Holly Morris
Last Child in the Woods, Ricdhard Louv
Ecopsycology, Edited by Theodore Roszak, Mary E. Gomes and Allen D. Kanner
Resurgence magazine
Permaculture magazine
Communities magazine
XXX Amelia
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