18 Northwest Yachting Features
One of the most fundamental goals of redesigning Northwest Yachting, beginning in May of 2016, was to tie the cover art to the editorial coverage within the magazine. Although that’s standard practice at nearly every major publication, it was not in previous iterations of Northwest Yachting.
Tight budgets at a free publication dictate doing more with less, and I shot three of these covers (August 2016, January 2017, June 2019) myself. In all the other cases, I sourced and/or purchased the artwork and contributors. Two of these contributors are some of the world’s best-known boating photographers, Billy Black and Gilles-Martin Raget.
If you’re curious, you can feel free to ask me the overall art budget for these 18 months of issues – I’m sure you’ll be surprised. In most cases I also wrote the headlines, decks, and captions in these items. At the bottom of each photo you can find a link to the digital edition where the feature appears.
The Cover artists:
January 2020 – Luxury Yacht Films
November 2019 – Lisa Ireton
September 2019 – Rick Horn
June 2019 – Alex Kwanten
April 2019 – Rich Carey
March 2019 – Gilles Martin-Raget
February 2019 – Rolf Hicker
December 2018 – Jamie E. Parsons/USCG
September 2018 – Jordan Roderick
June 2018 – Courtney Turner-Forte/Turner-Forte Photography
May 2018 – Kevin Miller
April 2018 – Gavin Hardcastle
October 2017 – Junichi Hirai/Bulkhead Magazine Japan
July 2017 – Dave Woodcock/Greywolf Photography
February 2017 – Billy Black
January 2017 – Alex Kwanten
November 2016 – Andrea Izzioti
August 2016 – Alex Kwanten