Design Expert on Challenges Facing Today’s Magazine Designers

Jan White is a nationally recognized expert in magazine design who has given more than 1,800 seminars in 27 countries on the relationship of layout and graphics to editing. He also writes the “Designed for Success” column in Publishing Executive magazine. His stated goal is “to persuade word-people to think visually and visual people to think verbally.” Inbox picked his “inventive”—don’t call it creative—mind about the evolution of magazine design and the challenges today’s designers face in a visual world.