2 posts tagged “jnc”

Well, my copies of Japanese Nostalgic Car have yet to arrive, but a friend not far from me received his copy yesterday, so he lent it to me to facilitate some drooling.  I promised not to get it on his copy.

Man, what to say.  So damn stoked.  I was hoping the cover would be of a heavier stock, but otherwise I'm rapt.  There are mistakes here and there throughout the mag, and one pretty big kerning cockup on the cover, but I've taken all of those things on board and I know they won't happen again.  All in all, I think it's not bad for a first ever effort.

Here's some choice photos.

15,000 copies.  Glossy pages throughout.  83 pages.  All designed by me.  Bring on issue 2!

Oh man.

As anyone on my facebook knows, I've been working hard for the past few months on the design for the first issue of the upcoming US publication, Japanese Nostalgic Car. It's the first US (or possibly anywhere in the west?) magazine to focus 100% on classic Japanese cars.

Here's a bit of a preview of what's to come. It's an 83 page magazine, professionally printed, perfect bound, and on good solid stock with card covers front and back (not unlike Freestyle magazine's covers). I'd tell you exactly what weight the card and paper is, but it's measured in some stupid US scale rather than in gsm, haha. Sorry! Suffice to say, it's all damn nice.

I hope those of you interested in classic JDM will consider buying a copy from http://japanesenostalgiccar.com! Unfortunately it's not being distributed through stores - that kind of thing is damn hard and expensive to line up.