JOUR2811 – Feature Article
Stephanie Brownlee
Triple J and perhaps later down the track, in political reporting. “We will start to further develop our media kit, integrate marketing campaigns and an advertising plan with the help of Grace Gannon, a business student majoring in advertising and marketing. We met her at a party and gave her our card,” they laugh. “From what I’ve experienced working on IZE, it would be cool to create the graphic layout of magazines as a career. I’d also love to do web design and development –it’s something that’s both creative and practical,” says Madeline. “We’re actually thinking, eventually, to develop an iPad App for IZE as interactive magazines are increasingly popular.” Clearly embracing their studies, the city and exploring it’s diversity in scope to establish and create, Maddy, Nicole and IZE’s band of ever eager contributors are showcasing the capacity of contemporary young professionals. “We’re sticking with IZE for the moment,” nod Maddy and Nicole. “We love creating it more than anything else and received just above 50,000 page impressions on the last issue –it may take off.” Indeed, when ‘ize’ alone is typed into Google, the magazine is indexed before The Strokes song.
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