Alec Dudson
Intern Magazine Interview Questions.
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When did you first learn you wanted to work in editorial design?
I got into sort of through my mates going off and doing internships and once one of them had been of out to new york for a couple of months and id been sort of sat at home in new york that kind of convinced me to look into doing internships and it wasn’t necessarily the travel aspect of it that sort of got me into it but that was certainly part of it and I applied for most of them in London and it just so happened that the first one that got back to me took me to Milan so not coming from a design background that was almost my baptism of fire and it was a bit odd going to one that was not only a design magazine but architecture and design magazine because both of things I had no formal background in what so ever but the kind of people I was working with out there and the friends that I made out there very good designers and that kind of I suppose that two months I spent with them was always going to be the point in which I decided to pursue magazines and try to get work in it or just think maybe its not for me. As an editor I do work in editorial design but I am not designer its more of an over view. I have the final say but I certainly I like to work with designers because I know I need a designer to do the job so I like to sort of let them do what they do so as much I like to design myself, its been a crash course in design. From having noting to do with it in 2012 to this now two years later I interact with designers on a day-to-day basis. It’s been nice.
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What is the purpose of intern magazine?
Its got a duel purpose first is to showcase the kind of underclass if you will, of workers. Who are now filling these positions? That have kind of immerged or freshly defined as internships and the second is to encourage a frank and open debate about the effects of internships on the industries. That they’ve found them in more and more industry’s and the amount of work that interns do behind the scenes still seems to be on the increase so to cut It short it’s a magazine for and by internes but the hope is that with in that within that there’s enough variety and perspective, and in story it can be generally appealing to people who are kind of visually stimulated or into creative pursuits.
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How did you go about bringing the first edition of intern to life?
It started of getting the concept right. I was always very adamant of that, as you’ve no doubt seen that today. If I was going to make a magazine and stand a chance it had to do something different and it had to be able to go and stand on its own to legs. Obviously things like a use of prerequisite the design had to be up to a certain standard or it wouldn’t be accepted and wouldn’t make it off the shelves. I spent about two weeks toying with ideas and the idea I kept coming back to was about internships once I had decided on the concept I pitched it to Davey who was the creative director of boat magazine where I was interning at the time and also to Chris who was the freelance designer who has gone on to be one of the three lads who’s handled the art direction from the start. So once I had kind of got a reaction off them that supported the idea that there might be something in it, I kind of hunkered down to asking more people running it by the people I had worked with in Milan more opinions I got on it the more takes I got on it. I decided about three to four weeks after it was just before Christmas I come up with it and decided in the new year I was going to move back up to Manchester where I went to