On The Water

Time for a breather — another publication for the Royal Southampton Yacht Club successfully put to bed and delivered today.
On The Water and Ashore 2017 is the second of two yearly handbooks for the  Club — the first primarily a membership directory, and this one which takes the shape of a 52-page Club brochure detailing the entire Club activities both on the water and ashore as its name implies, and includes a handy pull out section with high and low water tide tables and a complete diary of events for the year.
It was put together through December and sent to print before Christmas, so the final design and layout has been on my computer since that time. You might say I know every word it contains and am familiar with every picture.
Yet I think there is still something magical about having the real thing in your hands and to be able to turn each page by hand.   Call me sentimental, or old fashioned, but I believe there is special about print publications that cannot be achieved on the computer screen, even though they may have been prepared and designed by computer.

Long live the age of print publications!