the principals

Lisa Luscombe has been a professional art director and graphic designer in Melbourne for 18 years. Just two years after graduating from Swinburne, Lisa was appointed senior graphic designer/supervisor of APN News and Media magazines art department, overseeing eight graphic designers who produced 13 four-colour trade and commercial publications on a monthly and fortnightly frequency.

In 1997, Lisa was named Graphic Designer of the Year in the Annual Australian Business Publishers Bell Awards for her work on a range of magazine titles, including their redesigns. She also received a Highly Commended graphic design accolade for the best magazine issue.

Later in that year she was appointed art director of RACV's RoyalAuto magazine - she was an integral part of the team selected to relaunch a significant monthly publication that had fallen on hard times. Lisa's ongoing input has been a major factor in the great lift in readership of the magazine.

John Hall has had wide editing and publishing experience on three continents over four decades.

For 20 years he held senior editorial roles on newspapers - in Melbourne on The Age and the Herald (now Herald-Sun), in Canada on the Vancouver Sun and Montreal Gazette, and in London on the Evening Standard.

For 15 years he was executive editor of Australia's second-largest magazine publishing group. He was responsible for overseeing the output of 90 creative staff: editors, writers, sub-editors, graphic designers, artists and photographers. The role also included working with editors on direction of the magazines, their content and design, and the marketing of the magazines.

He also launched a range of client-publishing magazines, with clients as diverse as Foxtel, Medibank Private... and the Walt Disney Company!

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john hall editing by design writer editor