KC’s job is officially “Art Director” for Circuit Cellar, but he does much more than that. His job requires her to coordinate the layout of the Circuit Cellar Magazine, and design and develop the website. KC receives files from the editorial and advertising departments, and fits them into the generic magazine layout style that is consistent from month to month. This layout incorporates a color scheme that makes it easy to find a specific article in the magazine. However, this also poses a particular problem since the four-color pages come in sets of four. If you have an article that spans more than four pages, it can only be printed on two-color (black and cyan) pages.
The layout of the articles is spaced with ads and diagrams to help make the design more unified and consistent. For the website, he manages and edits the Cascading Style Sheets, which make the layout and design of the site constant for every page. This offers superior control over the website, as it will automatically style each article the same way, as long as the web code contains the same elements.
Every once in a while, she is required to clean up a photo to remove any pieces which slip into the picture by accident, a standard job for anyone involved with magazine layout. To complete these tasks, KC uses Quark, Photoshop, Illustrator, and Dreamweaver. These abilities are vital to the success of any magazine, and since KC has been at Circuit Cellar for many years, his abilities as an Art Director help the company succeed.