Artist Sought for New and Improved Naked Capitalism Newsletter

Lambert right here:

We’re within the technique of revising the Bare Capitalism publication within the hopes that we will flip it into an actual circulation builder, as a substitute of merely a service to readers. To that finish, we need to make it weekly or fortnightly, give it a extra skilled look, shorten and tighten up the prose, and (we hope) add graphics. We’ve got an instance publication to observe that we like: The Cradle. It seems to be like this:

Our drawback is the graphics (and never the format, or the sort, or the black, white, and purple colour scheme). As you’ll be able to see, for the graphics the Cradle has used a collage approach, layering collectively a variety of pictures. If we publish one publication every week with 5 gadgets, that’s twenty collages a month, with proof cycles to match. That’s an enormous burden. Each two weeks is ten items, nonetheless huge.

We may scale back the burden. One strategy could be to create a listing of generic and topical graphics, as opposed making customized graphics for every story. (The matters we use in Hyperlinks could be a place to begin.) We’d additionally simplify the graphics and maybe alter their measurement. So, for instance, versus creating, on demand, a big graphic of a Yemeni container port overlaid with a head, flags, and a dagger, we’d have a generic picture of boats on the Purple Sea overlaid with a dagger, additionally utilizing much less vertical house. We may then take generic graphic out of stock after we had a narrative below that subject. We woudd create the generic, topical stock in bulk, and draw it down. This strategy would enormously simplify the editorial cycle as effectively.

Nonetheless, I’ve all the time been on the manufacturing aspect of the home, and in order that answer is how I feel. If you’re an artist, you might have a very totally different thought of the precise strategy (though your thought would even have to satisfy our deadlines). One other production-oriented answer could be AI, however each AI picture I’ve ever seen has been uncanny and ugly. For those who actually have these prompts mastered, you may change our thoughts, although!

If you wish to put ahead an answer for our publication drawback, please remark (and please put a working e mail handle in your remark so we will get in contact with you; we don’t ever share them, and no person can see them).

Thanks!