First Issue
July 31, 2005
I’ve been doing some thinking about the first issue (that comes out September 21) and I really want to go with a birth/transition type theme. Next year is going to be a major one for Trinity, with Snider leaving, new marketing people starting new marketing strategies (that will see Trinity much more involved with the community), some of our best profs leaving, the new M.A. starting up, the chapel being taken down, etc.
We’re on the verge of something huge, and I want to capture that in our first issue. The cover is going to be something that captures this birth/transition type theme, combined with the idea of the bubble being burst. Something like a tortoise pushing its way out of an egg (or maybe we could photoshop Sparty into picture and make it look like he just got hatched). These are just ideas but I really want to capture the idea that the walls need to come down.
My editorial is going to start something like this: “Trinity Western University could be _the_ authority in North America on the question of where faith intersects with culture. We have an incredibly diverse campus, profs with credentials that span the academic globe, and an immense potential for growth. Such growth will only come about, however, if we are willing to enter and embrace the community we are in, willing to expand beyond the garrison and into the lives of our neighbours. In short, we will only be able to realize our strength and achieve our mandate if we realize this simple truth: the bubble is about to burst.”
Something like that.
Anyway, be thinking about stories or pictures that capture this idea of newness and transition and change. I want to have a whole page (maybe even a whole spread) of photographs that just resonate with this whole theme. Flowers shooting into bloom, walls coming down, a butterfly in the midst of metamorphosis: stuff like that.
That’s all for now. Enjoy your summers.
.mwj
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