July 14, 2007

Out There Monthly distributes over 22,000 copies of its active lifestyle tabloid in Washington State. Publisher Jon Snyder was looking to move to InDesign, but had concerns about the learning curve, and any resulting loss of efficiency.

Black Eye engineered a smart template design that makes short work of the monthly layout—complete with one-click formatting for several of the magazine’s more complex listings and features. We followed up with training videos and remote support that got them up and running in no time.

Jon is thrilled with the results: “We’re a small monthly tabloid publisher without the resources to spend tons of money on design. Switching from Quark to InDesign seemed daunting until we hired Black Eye to convert our files. Consulting on our conversion not only went super-smooth, it saved us time and money.”

Just ask studio coordinator Jennifer Blais for a video demo of the template in action.