Here's one way:
This cover is the work of Commits alumnus
DAVID TUSING (Class of 2005), deputy editor of
tabloid!, the features section of the Dubai-based
Gulf News. Tusing posted this image on Facebook earlier this week with his comments: "Everyone's talking about
Skyfall. So we thought we'd do something slightly different with our cover today. Thoughts?"
David (
pictured at left) wrote later in an e-mail that he takes full credit for this cover. "I love to experiment with our covers whenever I get the opportunity," he wrote. Because of the internet and Facebook and Twitter, he continued, "I think the
print medium has had to constantly find new ways and means to engage
readers, not just with our covers but with the way we cover stories.
"We
often find ourselves having to come up with fresh ideas to say something
they may already know but in an innovative and interesting way that's
still relevant
— and that will make them pick up an issue from the
stands.
"Needless to say, I love that challenge."
That's the spirit, David.
He wanted to know what I thought of this cover. So I wrote back, "Inventive, innovative, imaginative. And sure to draw in the inquisitive."
