Relevant creators

TERRY JONES

British magazine, i-D, was founded by former Vogue art director Terry Jones in 1980. The magazine has since matured into a glossy magazine dedicated to fashion, youth-culture, art and music.
I would consider Terry Jones as a relevant creator for Base Junkie as he has fashion, youth-culture and music figured out and at the heart. His meaningful images would engage the target audience combined with vague text to produce consistent, quirky pages.

 

Suroosh Avi, Shane Smith, Gavin Mcinnes 

Founded in 1994 in Canada by the above. The company then went on the expand into a company: VICE Media which produced various media types for Vice including the magazine, website and a record label. The mag was launched by government funding. Andy Capper co-founded the UK division with VICE.

Creators of Vice would be relevant to Base Junkie as their unique take on youth-culture creates humour and interest. The edgy, unusual images are kept simple and left to be self explanatory so the reader is persuaded to look inside. I feel this would work for Base Junkie due to the nature of the hip-hop, urban styler which requires daring, bold images to get the genre across effectively.



MARK ELLEN & DAVID HEPWORTH

 

Mark Ellen is an award winning magazine editor and journalist who has wrote for NME, editor of Smash Hits as well as being the launch editor of Q and the launch managing editor of Mojo- this al have relevance to music and Ellen clearly knows how to successfully edit, write and launch magazines of this style. I feel he would be a relevant creator for Bass Junkie as he has a proven understanding of music magazines and effective ways of creating them into something that the audience/readers will enjoy.

David Hepworth was previously involved with music retailers including Tower records and Beserkley records before becoming a journalist. He has also worked with music magazines such as NME, Sounds and Smash Hits. Hepworth has launched Q, Mojo, The Word etc. which are all magazines based on the music genre; Hepworth has a career of different elements focused on music and media (mainly printed) which makes him a relevant for Bass Junkie. As he has a large amount of knowledge on both music as well as launching/working with magazines, Hepworth would know how to effectively launch Bass Junkie to the public and make it into a large success, as he did with others such as Q and Mojo.

 





 

BOB GOCCIONE, JR.

The eldest son of Robert Charles Goccione, jr who founded 'men's magazine' Penthouse. Bob went to work for the publishing company of this magazine, running the marketing circulation department. He then decided to launch his own magazine; Spin. Bob Goccione, Jr. also was founder of Gear (men's magazine.) I feel he is a relevant creator for Bass Junkie as I intend this to be a magazine mainly based on music but also with reference to what could be thought of as inappropriate behaviour. As Bob has a knowledge about this being put inside magazines in a way which appeals, I feel he would he useful. I also feel he would enable Bass Junkie to be distributed effectively in a way which the population find easily accessible and appealing, this is due to his previous work on a marketing and circulation department. I like the style of Spin magazine which was founded by Bob Goccione, Jr. It has an edgy feel to it and the wording on the cover is different which is something I am hoping to achieve when designing the cover of Bass Junkie. The expressions/poses on the artists' faces are seen as youthful, current and set an exciting, high energy mood for the reader before even reading! For all these reasons I wold consider Bob Goccione Jr a relevant creator for my magazine.