Today at Churm Media, I was tasked with making a twitter help guide so that our editorial/marketing teams could help spread the word about our brands (@OCMETRO, @OCFamily, @IEFamily). That’s when i realized that if you’re not an internet savvy, hip user then you probably don’t really get the “jump right in and learn how to swim” aspect of twitter. Thus… the twitter cheat sheet. You may even notice a little shout out to a couple tweople (Twitter + people); @Tutorial9, @CameronOlivier, @Sethetter & @Vectips.

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Title: November OCMETRO CEO Centerfold, Leila Entezam

Client: Churm Media, in association with OCMETRO

Program(s) Used: Quark 6, Photoshop CS2

Time Span: 2 Hours

About: CEO Centerfold spread pages for OCMETRO, Photography by Tracie Spence.

Designer Notes: This was my 3rd design of a CEO centerfold for OCMETRO magazine.

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Title: October OCMETRO Cover, What’s at stake for Orange County? Obama – McCain

Client: Churm Media, in association with OCMETRO

Program(s) Used: Quark 6, Illustrator CS2, Photoshop CS2

Time Span: 4 Hours

About: The cover story told of ways that each presidential candidate could effect Orange County, since we’re a hyper-local magazine media company.

Designer Notes: I wanted the cover to look vastly different than anything we’d produced in the past, bringing techniques and ideas which Churm Media hadn’t explored before. The idea of adding in the Orange slices was to really bring the hyper-local aspect to the cover, and to get a nice bright splash of colors.

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Title: September OCMETRO Cover – Tito Ortiz

Client: Churm Media, in association with OCMETRO

Program(s) Used: Quark 6, Photoshop

Time Span: 4 Hours total project

About: October Issue cover design for OCMETRO

Designer Notes: This was the first issue of the re-design, and my first cover for OCMETRO (Previously i’d been designing OCFAMILY & Inland Empire Family Covers & layouts)

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