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A positive lifestyle website for all who embrace the joy of art and the pleasure of food, travel and the humanities – “The Good Life!”
The Best Things In Life Are… Never Boring!
ARTS & FOOD® Magazine
Published by Jack Atkinson Studios LLC (Denver)
J.A.A./ Founder, Founding Editor & Publisher
A.A./ Founding Digital Consultant
K.B./ Founding Accounting Consultant
S. Z./ Founding Legal Consultant
J.S./ Assistant to the Publisher
T.M. & I.P. Founding Revenue, SEO and Sales Consultants
Business Offices:
• HQ: 541 N. Franklin Street, Denver, CO 80218
• NYC Office: 100 Church Street, Suite 801, New York, NY 10007
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ABOUT ARTS&FOOD®
ARTS&FOOD® – Beautiful Art and Delicious Food prove “THE BEST THINGS IN LIFE ARE… NEVER BORING!”™ This publication is a collaboration between cultural experiences and e-commerce.
Publishing is at a crossroads debating print vs digital formats and our goal as a company is to contribute, in our small way, to ensure the continuation of a profitable free press by exploring new possibilities, in this disruptive digital era. Also, we offer an educational platform to our members for the Humanities and a forum on aesthetics and creative expression and discussions among the art world, artists, art dabblers, designers, visual art appreciators – the hospitality industry, talented chefs, home cooks, food lovers – musicians, writers, architects, and any person or business making positive creative arts contributions to our world. ARTS&FOOD® believes “The Good Life”, a cultural lifestyle so many people aspire to embrace today, naturally occurs when they have access to great cultural options, good taste, extraordinary knowledge, and learnable skills.
JOIN OUR HUMANITIES MOVEMENT: ARTS&FOOD®! We appreciate your support, as we offer this alternative to the angry, hostile and destructive world reported by most media day-in-&-day-out! ARTS&FOOD® has the potential to bring together our unique population segment of “CREATIVES” – our group of smart, cultured, aesthetic, caring and wonderful souls – the creators and appreciators of beauty, the joy of the arts, food, travel and sustainability. WE BELIEVE THE HUMANITIES CAN SAVE THIS WORLD, a world on the verge of self-destruction!
“Keep it Simple” is the guiding premise of our publication, where the focus is on THE ARTS, FOOD, TRAVEL & SUSTAINABILITY! Every issue takes a deep dive into the cultural pool that is the humanities.
ARTS&FOOD® differs from most past and current cultural magazines because our focus is on lifestyle and knowledge, not on the pretense. You will find no “ArtSpeak” here, no noses in the air and we will avoid any tone of voice that is “too serious”. Our approach is all about the joy of art and the pleasure the arts, travel and food experiences bring with them!
Join our movement, The Humanities Movement, and share this publication with your family and friends. Embrace this guide to the good life, and your life will never be boring!
Find us on the web at ARTSandFOOD.com ®
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Question: Our masthead is ARTS&FOOD®, so why is our URL: ARTSandFOOD.com?
Answer: The ampersand symbol “&”, is not available for use in any URL because it is part of and used in the computer coding – with-in the “web” itself.
Until later,
Jack A. Atkinson
Founder, Editor & Publisher of ARTS & FOOD ® Magazine
(ARTSandFOOD.com ®)
Editor’s note:
A publication is a collaboration and I have a few helpers currently playing a part in its creation. For ARTS & FOOD ® Magazine I want to give a giant shout out to the people who help and have helped to make this new “website magazine” possible. A sincere thank you to all – you know who you are – for your talents, and knowledge – you are amazing and very appreciated!
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JACK A. ATKINSON (a 1st Person Bio):
My Personal Mantra: SIMPLICITY • ENERGY • BEAUTY!
My whole life, I have lived by these three words and tested my work and life through the lens of: “Is it Simple?” “Does it Exude Energy?” “Is the result Beautiful?” This test has worked out quite well for every part of my life, and it is the test this new publication now faces.
From my earliest recollection, I wanted to be an artist and spent my childhood in an art studio carved out of our basement storage room. Throughout my education, I received special credit for doing drawings and artworks based on the subject matter of each class, but there was only one art class available during all of those years of public education. My father was a head and neck surgeon and my oldest brother (nine years older than me) was a rocket scientist, working for NASA, so when I told my father I wanted to study “art” at college, his answer was an abrupt “HELL NO!” So I enrolled in the more acceptable architecture program and had a stomach ache the whole first semester. At winter break, I told him it was art or nothing at all, and he agreed, but only if I would get a second degree in business. A deal was struck and I ended up with majors in art, graphic design, art history, and business marketing. What wondrous opportunities this road less taken has delivered for me.
I worked in the small in-house advertising department of Plough, Inc. (Maybelline Cosmetics and Coppertone sunscreen products) while I was an undergraduate at the University of Memphis. My contribution there was for Maybelline’s Great Lash Mascara – I recommended the Great Lash packaging design should be “Pink & Green”. It is still sold today in that kind of package and is now the largest selling single cosmetic product in the world. My first job upon graduation from university was as the corporate Art Director for Holiday Inn, International. My contribution there: I was part of the three-person team to think up and launch the original promotion of KIDS EAT FREE. (I can take full credit for the headline.) KEF is now the most used restaurant promotion in the world. Next, I went into publication design, with a few off years working as a freelance Art Director for Bernstein-Rein ad agency’s Denver branch office, which was handling all of McDonald’s advertising in ten Western states, winning many Advertising Awards under my art direction.
Within the world of Publishing I have been the Art Director for:
- The San Francisco Chronicle and Examiner’s Sunday Magazine
- The Denver Post’s Sunday Magazine plus all of the newspaper’s Features Sections & Special Sections
- Denver Magazine & Louisiana Life Magazine & Memphis Magazine
- Art Director for Southern Living Magazine’s: Creative Ideas for Living.
- Art Director for Vail Magazine & Steamboat Magazine & Arkansas Times & Southern Magazine & many corporate publications and annual reports.
AWARDS: Publishing is a team sport, and the publications I have worked with have won: The National Magazine Award for General Excellence presented by the National Association of Magazine Editors and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism; The Pulitzer Prize for Excellence awarded to the entire editorial staff of The Denver Post, the Ozzie Award for Best Newsstand Cover in North America, the Maggie Award for Publication Design Excellence, “Magazine of the Year” award from the Regional Publishers Association; “Magazine of the Year” award from the City and Regional Publishers Association; “Design Excellence” award from the Society of Newspaper Designers, The “White Award” for the most outstanding publication design of the year – from Kansas State University’s School of Journalism, plus many other awards, too numerous to mention here.
As a fine artist, I have created and hung dozens of solo and group art exhibitions (of my “original artwork”) in white box galleries of the Chelsea Contemporary Arts District of New York City and I started journalistically covering the art scene of NYC in 2010 though my ARTS & FOOD blog, published under the URL of www.ARTSnFOOD.blogspot.com.
Very early on in my career, while working as corporate Art Director at Holiday Inn, my wife and I were surrounded by many great classically trained European chefs and we dined at their homes regularly. It was then, I became interested in the culinary arts. Since that time our family has entertained often, hosting large seated dinner parties for 12 to 14, where we cook and serve seven-course gourmet meals to our guests. It has been a wonderful culinary journey, as we have explored the cuisine of many cultures around the world during these gatherings.
All of the above experiences have brought me to where we are today, creating this new cultural online magazine. Welcome to ARTS & FOOD®. Let me know what you think and how we can improve it.
Until later,
Jack A. Atkinson