i tear up a lot. apparently.
today. before 9am. pacific. i was looking at the images from Last Days of Gourmet.
I didn’t subscribe. I have loads of food blogs and mags bookmarked. The thing is, Gourmet was my standard for web design of print properties. I quite loved the look of Gourmet. Clean and sleek. Full of content and type without feeling overwrought, over-designed or cold. It was/is simply, gorgeous.
So, to see the faces and emptying spaces overcome with sadness got me a little emotional this morning. Kevin DeMaria’s melancholic images are beautifully evocative of a loss of identity that comes with job loss. But, also, they are defiant. As the last issue disappears from the stands and web content migrates, the people and space that created Gourmet won’t be forgotten, reduced to numbers on a balance sheet or even a series of sumptuous covers chronicling the history of the magazine. As everyone moves on to their next chapters, Kevin left some humanity for the rest of us to see at the end of Gourmet‘s long story.
(via thekitchn)
tearing up. again.
Nikki♥