East Coast Living wins cover-to-cover makeover

East Coast Living has won K9 Design's inaugural magazine makeover contest. The Nova Scotia-based quarterly will receive as its prize a cover-to-cover redesign. (Shown at right is the current issue, before the makeover.)

The prize package, worth approximately $20,000, includes: strategic direction and redesign on new cover and interior layouts from K9 Design; a circulation consultation from Circ3; digital publishing from Dawson Communications NXT Book Media; printing services from Ironstone Media; core promotional printed product from Annex Printing; and stock photography from iStockphoto.

“We’re absolutely thrilled with this opportunity to strengthen the East Coast Living magazine brand,” said Sheila Blair-Reid, the publisher. “It’s an honour to be working with some of Canada’s leading design, media and print companies and our editorial and design teams look forward to refreshing our magazine’s design, enhancing its overall look and feel, and taking East Coast Living magazine to the next level.”

East Coast Living is published by Metro Guide Publishing Inc. of Halifax. K9 Design is an independently owned and operated boutique design and communications studio – the only Canadian firm dedicated to magazines and publishers since 1998.