Response: Prototype presentation

This week we finally went to Des Moines to present our magazine prototypes. While Home Canvas had some constructive criticism, we were told that we "hit a home run with our magazine." I almost cried I was so happy. Overall I was really interested in the types of criticisms they gave to groups in general. Since I was on the design side and not the publishing side, I was shocked by some of the questions they asked about publishing such as how they would get people to add them on Facebook and how Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest are not actually free media when you need to hire someone to run them 24/7. It's one of those things that I overlook when thinking about what goes in to making a magazine because I have gotten so caught up in making sure it looks good. I definitely need to take those kinds of things into consideration when I'm thinking about the costs of magazine in the future.