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Feedback please!
We want to know what you make of 'Uplift!'... what you think works, what could be improved, what you'd like to see more of.
This magazine is for you, so what would you like to see happening in it?
Cheers m'dears - Uplift x
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6/15/2006, 1:21 am
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evilpixie
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Re: Feedback please!
ok, well i like the illustrations. i like the topics covered and the approach taken.
i think there should be more, of everything, just more. i think it needs a proofreading before printing (there was a couple of mistakes, but nothing horrific, it just jarred slightly). i think it shouldn't have justified text, and possibly drop the font size by a point. i'd love to see more about art and culture and DIY (diy anything).
i could go on, but really, what i need to do is just do my own magazine, instead of telling you how to run yours
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6/26/2006, 9:34 pm
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lorismith
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Re: Feedback please!
Love the new magazine! Makes a nice change from all the junk you see on the shelves in newsagents - celebrity obsessed rags, not content unless they're telling women how to run their lives. I grew tired of every title by the age of 21 
Good luck with Uplift. I really hope it takes off.
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8/27/2006, 10:59 pm
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Re: Feedback please!
I went and bought Uplift, after reading a review on the http://www.thefword.org.uk
Sorry but to be honest - I was a bit disappointed, it's more like a fanzine or pamphlet (it's 20 pages), and for £2 I thought it was a rip off. Yes, I know it’s the first issue, but you asked for feedback!
I bought my copy from American Graffitti in Manchester, and the shop assistant didn't even realise it was a magazine, she thought it was a misplaced pamphlet!
I do like some of the illustrations - the handdrawn stuff, and really like the square format, and some good photographs. But the choice of typeface and typesetting is bland and looks unprofessional. (Sorry I'm going to be brutally honest here, as I'm a graphic designer). And hopefully in future editions of the mag, you'll have a heavier weight paper for the cover (that's what makes it feel like a pamphlet rather than a magazine).
I liked some of the ideas behind some of the articles (Reclaiming the Night & The Radical Nature of Craft), but most of the other articles felt like I was reading a diary of a ranting 16-25 year old - contradicting the magazine's title: Uplift.
I'd like to see articles that are more 'uplifting' - on 'issues' rather than 'feelings'. Maybe looking at: alternative products, international goings on, philosophy, fashion, music... (but obviously with an alternative slant to magazines like Glamour and Cosmo!)
I know this is a weird reference, cause its a 'one of those' glossies, but in terms of written articles and photo assignments - Vanity Fair and Vogue have recently SOMETIMES contained some interesting articles that are verging on the alternative. Also Marmalade magazine seems to be quite similar in visual ideas to your magazine, not in content though (Marmalade is a bit of a fashion-whore magazine with advertising and focussing on 'trends and pals of...') http://www.marmalademag.com/
And a couple of years ago there was a short-run magazine called Hey Ladies (sold in Magma bookshops) - the writing and illustration was really, really good. I have no idea what happened to this, but it might be a useful reference to you, if you haven't already seen it.
There is so much call for female/feminist lead, beautifully designed, intelligent independent magazines with no agendas, or ranting diary-types writers (we've had enough of Bridget Jones's!). These magazines will nevertheless be in competition with the likes of Glamour, Cosmo, Grazia, etc., because that's the market that you are talking to, the type of women that are trying to connect with 'something'.
The writer of a recent article published on http://www.thefword.org.uk, wrote:
"As I indulge in my guilty pleasure of scanning this month's sprawl of magazines I am reliably informed by Elle, Glamour and Grazia..."
... and goes on a very long rant about what she is seeing and reading in these magazines (Yet she buys them regularly!).
It's like reading an article written by a so-called 'vegetarian', who secretly buys meat at the end of every month, and then tells everyone, about how awful meat is!
Just don't buy it!
Sorry, if you take these comments to be overly negative, or like I'm picking holes, especially as it's the first issue. But there doesn't seem to be much constructive, honest feedback going on, just 'nice, (patronising) well done' comments being posted on forums. It's so important that more magazines start up as Uplift has done.
Uplift has a lot of potential, but I think the bar has to be raised if you want this magazine to be read by more people.
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