MAGAZINE EDITING
1970s ARTS MAGAZINE, NEW YORK
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Arts Magazine was one of the four major art magazines in the United States in the early seventies. It had been around since 1926.
I was originally hired to create a book called Contemporary Spanish Art, but soon began copy editing the magazine as well. Next, I expanded into the design and production of advertisments for clients who did not have an advertising agency. When the production of the magazine was moved out of state, I was given the layout and production work as well. This is one of my layouts.
1960s GUIDEPOST, MADRID, SPAIN
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Guidepost is an English-language weekly that has been published since the 1950s. First directed at the people stationed at the nearby American Air Force base, it soon moved more toward tourists and English-speaking expatriates.
I worked there—on and off and at different jobs—for about six years. Although I never held the title of editor, I put together 30 or 40 issues while editors were on vacation or otherwise occupied. “Editor” was an all-encompassing job that ranged from assigning artlcles to writing whatever was missing to laying out the magazine in the print shop as the type arrived. It was an excellent introduction to the physical side of publishing. And although the days of letterpress and photogravure are long gone, much of what I learned there still applies.
The drawing of Madrid’s Cibeles Fountain sculpture was done by Celestino Cuevas. The flag background was my work. The layout was mine, done for that same tenth-anniversary issue. I also took all of the photos of Guidepost staff members on those pages.
SUNNY SPAIN, MADRID
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The touristically titled Sunny Spain was a monthly magazine Guidepost published for a Spanish hotel chain. The cover is a photo I took at the Alhambra and adapted. The layout is also mine. The colored circles (gold in the original) are the same image as the cover.
In the 1980s, I helped create the Scholastic, Inc. Spanish-language school magazines, ¡OYE! and Listo, and wrote many of the articles.