Made In Earnest

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The Victorian Society is celebrating its 60th year and to commemorate that fact The Victorian magazine has a special cover this issue showing the sadly lost Euston Arch. The painting, entitled ‘The Doric Arch’, is by Barbara Jones and comes from the Victoria & Albert Museum.

The latest issue of The Victorian (issue 50) is out now and features the Victorian Society’s Top Ten Endangered Buildings 2015. Below are two of the pages from the feature. You can find out more about each of the buildings on the list here.

The latest issue of The Victorian (Issue 48) has gone to print. This is the opening spread of the article about the depiction of Tower Bridge in art to coincide with the exhibition at the Guildhall Art Gallery entitled ‘Tower Bridge: A Celebration of 120 Years, 1894–2014’.

The Victorian magazine has a new Editor and following that change we were asked to redesign the magazine. The first issue with this new design has now been printed and published and here are a few samples spreads from it.

I’ve posted about my work for The Victorian magazine before but because it is an ongoing job which I have been doing for years I sometimes take it for granted and forget how much I enjoy working on it. The clients are nice and very supportive of my design work and we all invariably think […]

The latest issue of The Victorian magazine – issue 39 – is at the printers and will be out soon. This issue is in fact the twentieth issue Made In Earnest has designed and, even if I say so myself, it is looking good.

I’ve been lucky with my clients and have, for the past few years at least, always had work to do at the start of January thanks largely to the publication schedule of Historic House magazine. However, 2012 is starting with what seems like an extra dose of incoming and ongoing work. Not sure if this […]

As I have mentioned before I design The Victorian magazine for The Victorian Society and have been doing so since 2005. The magazine is published three times a year and is sent to all members of the Society free of charge. Each issue of the magazine concerns a specific relevant topic, this one pictured was concerned […]

I have been designing The Victorian Society magazine The Victorian since 2005 and it is one of those dream jobs where everyone involved likes the finished product, every time it is published. Despite being a society which ‘is the champion for Victorian and Edwardian buildings in England and Wales’ the magazine looks and feels modern, pics […]