125 Magazine Briefs

125 Magazine is one of my favourite editorials. They describe themselves as "the only magazine in the world, which acts as a completely unbiased photography gallery, open to both emerging and established artists, and making affordable art available to all.

We are dedicated to providing a platform for artists to produce work that would not be viable in conventional magazines and are proud to have published work by 200 different contributors from across the globe resulting in the most open minded and truly fascinating publication in the world, a magazine that sits alongside the most luxurious "coffee-table books" and leaves most in its wake."

The magazine is comprised purely of submissions of work responding to a brief given in the previous issue.

This is the brief from the last issue. The deadline has past but it would be a nice brief for me to work towards independently.

125 MAGAZINE #13

LUXURY

Contributors deadline: 1st December 2008
On sale: 1st March 2009


CONTRIBUTOR GUIDLINES
In order to achieve the highest possible quality 125 uses the latest print and profiling technology. Below are important instructions put together in consultation with our printer and pre press partner which should help ensure that your work is reproduced at the best possible quality.

If you do not normally supply your own CMYK conversions and proofs we highly recommend that you pass these details to your lab/repro house. We will look at work not supplied to these instructions, but if accepted for publication we will expect you to resubmit.

All work must be supplied to 125 as follows:
Re-touched, ready-to-print Tiff files without any LZW, Zip or JPEG compression when saving.
Resolution: 350dpi (8 bits/channel) at 100% of printed size for best quality.
UCR: Combined Colour density of images should not exceed 330%
Files must be presented in CMYK colour space only using the ISOcoated_v2 profile which can be downloaded here.
We prefer images uncropped (with a cropping guide if necessary) using our page dimensions of 23x30cm.
With guide prints for reference (these can either be desktop prints or photographic but not thumbnails).
If your work is accepted for publication you will then need to produce CMYK match prints to ensure accurate colour reproduction.

With a fully completed CONTRIBUTORS FORM.
You should aim to fill 10-16 pages, and your work must form a cohesive ‘story’, we will not accept single images.
All contributors must include a title and a short passage of text that explains the idea or inspiration behind the work -
this will be printed alongside your images in the issue.

Any questions should be sent to contributions@125magazine.com

The full completion details can be seen here: http://www.125magazine.co.uk/index.php?p_id=5#