Membership magazine design
A membership magazine is a renewal argument in disguise. It is the most visible thing many associations produce, and often the clearest evidence a member has that their subscription bought something.
The constraints are particular: a volunteer contributor base, copy that arrives late and in wildly varying lengths, sponsor and advertiser placements that have been promised, and a committee that will review it. We design for that reality rather than against it.
Photograph above is a stock image of magazines in general, not our work. Our own issues are in the portfolio. See the work.
- Usually
- 24–48 pages
- Price
- Starts $1,600 onwards
- Usually bought by
- Association secretaries, chamber and trade-body communications staff
What the price covers
- Cover and masthead, plus a contents structure that survives late copy
- Flexible feature templates for contributions of any length
- Advertiser and sponsor placements set to agreed sizes
- Committee-ready proof PDF for review
- Print-ready and web-optimised PDFs
Every project is quoted before it starts. Prices are per issue, in US dollars, and include two rounds of revisions.
Questions we get asked
- Copy always arrives late and at the wrong length. How do you cope?
- By designing templates that stretch. We agree an issue plan with page allocations early, then flow whatever arrives into layouts built to take 20% more or less than promised without redesign.
- Can you place our advertisers?
- Yes. Send the artwork and the agreed sizes and we position them to the standard slots. We will flag any advert supplied at a resolution too low to print.
Tell us what you want to publish.
Tell us the format, roughly how many pages, and when you need it. We come back with a fixed quote and a date.