<em>Vision</em> Starts Magazine
Oct 02, 2003
A LEADING international designer, David Billington, is in Kampala working on a magazine for <em>Sunday Vision.</em> The first issue comes out this Sunday.
By Alfred Wasike
A LEADING international designer, David Billington, is in Kampala working on a magazine for Sunday Vision. The first issue comes out this Sunday.
The consultant, Billington, said, “With the design of the new Sunday Magazine, we are aiming to take journalistic production and photographic excellence to new heights in Africa. We have aimed to use some of the qualities of the newspaper and reflect them in the magazine.â€
“Using new techniques we are aiming to improve picture quality, picture selection combined with an easy to read typeface,†the London-based Billington said, adding that the Sunday Magazine can only be comparable to the one of South Africa’s Sunday Times.
Billington said the magazine will have short snappy columns, long reads, together with a large quantity of photographic pages i.e. Fashion Police which will be much bigger and better. He said the aim was to make the magazine last throughout the week. “It is not time sensitive like a newspaper. It can be left around the house or office all week, “Billington said.
New Vision editor-in-chief William Pike said, “This is going to be an excellent product—a new innovation in Ugandan journalism and publishing. It is great value for money.â€
He regretted that the cost of the Sunday Vision would go up to sh800 to cover the costs.
“However we shall not raise the cost of the daily newspaper from sh700. We haven’t raised the cost of our newspapers for three years and we hope our readers will understand this. But our readers should rest assured about the quality of the magazine,†Pike said.
The magazine’s founding editor, Lydia Wamala, said, “It is 36 pages of full colour. It is loaded with human-interest stories and pictures, people profiles, former columns have been revitalised. There are new ones like “Turning Pointâ€. It is the first Sunday magazine in Uganda.â€
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A LEADING international designer, David Billington, is in Kampala working on a magazine for Sunday Vision. The first issue comes out this Sunday.
The consultant, Billington, said, “With the design of the new Sunday Magazine, we are aiming to take journalistic production and photographic excellence to new heights in Africa. We have aimed to use some of the qualities of the newspaper and reflect them in the magazine.â€
“Using new techniques we are aiming to improve picture quality, picture selection combined with an easy to read typeface,†the London-based Billington said, adding that the Sunday Magazine can only be comparable to the one of South Africa’s Sunday Times.
Billington said the magazine will have short snappy columns, long reads, together with a large quantity of photographic pages i.e. Fashion Police which will be much bigger and better. He said the aim was to make the magazine last throughout the week. “It is not time sensitive like a newspaper. It can be left around the house or office all week, “Billington said.
New Vision editor-in-chief William Pike said, “This is going to be an excellent product—a new innovation in Ugandan journalism and publishing. It is great value for money.â€
He regretted that the cost of the Sunday Vision would go up to sh800 to cover the costs.
“However we shall not raise the cost of the daily newspaper from sh700. We haven’t raised the cost of our newspapers for three years and we hope our readers will understand this. But our readers should rest assured about the quality of the magazine,†Pike said.
The magazine’s founding editor, Lydia Wamala, said, “It is 36 pages of full colour. It is loaded with human-interest stories and pictures, people profiles, former columns have been revitalised. There are new ones like “Turning Pointâ€. It is the first Sunday magazine in Uganda.â€
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