[CREATE] Libre Graphics Magazine issue 1.1 call for proposals

[ginger coons]

Hi everyone,

The call for proposals for Libre Graphics Magazine issue 1.1 is below.
Please feel free to cross-post to any related lists blogs, or your medium of
choice.

Libre Graphics Magazine is seeking submissions for its first numbered issue,
which loosely follows the theme First Encounters/Taking Flight. Submissions
can range from the written, to the visual, to the interactive. If it can be
flattened and printed, it could appear in our print edition. If it moves or
requires user input to be seen properly, it might just be a good fit for our
web edition. Proposals for articles or works (or even already completed
works), may be submitted until October 3, 11:59 Eastern time. Proposals for
articles should be no more than 100 words, although the articles themselves
may be up to 1000 words. Proposals and work may be sent to
submissions at libregraphicsmag.com

First times are seen as momentous events in our lives. The first time away
from home, first job, first kiss, all are seen as seminal events, meant to
be packed up and remembered, fondly or not. The first, narratively, carries
a heavier weight in our memories than so many subsequent events. After the
first time, you start getting used to it, you become proficient, the magic
and mystery start to wear off.

This issue, we're talking about firsts. We're talking about first
experiences, first efforts, first anythings, about the liberation of letting
go and trying something new, and the terror that sometimes comes with it.
Firsts are about taking flight, about leaving behind the things you know and
embracing something else.

That's where our second theme, Taking Flight, comes in. Taking flight,
leaving behind, in a physical and a metaphorical sense, carries with it that
sense of liberation and trepidation, that change of perspective. Lifting off
of our metaphorical ground and looking down from above packs the power to
change our perspective, to let us a little bit out of ourselves. In the same
way that seeing your own city from above can completely change your
conception of it, seeing your own possibility and creative process from
above has the power to make you stop and think again about the elements of
process, style or workflow that you take for granted.

Taken together, the ideas of First Encounters and Taking Flight are all
about discovering the new, the momentous, the big and the unexpected that
you never even thought you possessed. These things, in your own head, in
your own possibility, unlocked if only you give them a chance and break from
the norm. That's why, this month, we're talking about firsts and flights,
about the magic, the mystery, the revelation of doing something new and
discovering what you never even suspected you possessed.

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ginger "all-lower-case" coons
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