Well, I won't be receiving my copy for a good while so I can't yet comment on the inside. As for the cover, I was a tad skeptic at first. But the longer I look at it, the more it grows on me. So, I've shifted my skepticism to a simple "Nice Job!".
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Personally, I like the new layout - it draws you in to fully reading the articles (I tend to skim-read everything) and looks dead posh too
Nah - I can read real good, I just likes to look at tha pictures so's ma head don't hurt no more
I got the mag yesterday and after an intial browse there seems to be an obvious "High Contrast" style to this edition! Now, its not exactly easy on the eye but I can see why it would appeal to some people! There also seems to be a large amount of "Arty shots", which in moderation work very well but i think you went a bit OTT this month. On the plus side - The content this month seems to more than ever with pretty much every space crammed with writing! I would personally prefer to pay a bit more and have a few more pages, rather than trying to guess as to what pictures a piece of text refers to etc. Will post again, probably in a lot more detail (I have a lot of time!) later.
P.S. I would quite like to have a go at re-designing the cover though! If you give me a copy of the the picture blank i'll post up a go at it!
P.S. I would quite like to have a go at re-designing the cover though! If you give me a copy of the the picture blank i'll post up a go at it!
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That's a tough question and it may be that I am not in a position to answer it.
When I flick through PGI, or any magazine for that matter, in the newsagents, I will generally use the table of contents to find the various articles and then read the header and/or the first few lines. If I am not grabbed in those first few lines, or something in those first few lines puts me off, then I ignore that article.
If it is clear from either the T.O.C, header, or the first few lines that the article is going to be a report about the NNPL, PSP, NXL, etc then the article doesn't even get read. It's not a matter of the style, content, layout that makes me disregard it, it's the subject matter.
It is of no interest to me purely because it is NPPL, PSP, NXL, in the same way Serie A is of no interest to me in football. I couldn't frankly give a monkeys who wins the Italian equivalent of the FA Cup or who are crowned League Champions and no change in reporting style is going to make me interested enough to read it. My interest is primarily in the other teams I am going to play on a semi to regular basis, the people I am going to meet and the tournament series that I am going to attend.
I've had quite a think about this, hence the slow reply, but the bottom line is that I don't think I can answer your question... I'll continue to think about it, and if I do get "grabbed" by one of the U.S. tourney articles I'll let you know.
Something else occured to me while I was thinking about this, as I started thinking about why I don't read some of the other articles in PGI. One in particular sprang to mind.. Baca's.
Now, he seems well informed, he's usually got something interesting to say, he's fairly level headed, the discussions on here are sometimes very interesting and informative but man, I cannot read his articles.. the style of writing is just.. I can't describe it.. it's just.. ok try this...
Now that's TJ speaking and that style really grates on me... Baca's "stylee" does the same thing. Wierd because they both, generally, have interesting or funny things to say but written in their styles, I can't read them.
Nothing against Baca or "TJ" but.. ahem.. tha writin' is mo smack'd than a Tory MP swingin' his thang at a Cynthia Panye look-a-like contest...
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