Interview with Editor in Chief of Utah Style and Design, Brad Mee

Dear Alice | Interior Design

Alice Lane

Design, Visual Arts, Arts

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🗓️ 7 September 2023

⏱️ 59 minutes

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We have our very own Brad Mee on the podcast today, who is our editor and chief of Utah Style and Design magazine and is also the lifestyle editor of Salt Lake Magazine and of Boca Raton Magazine all the way in Florida. Brad gives us a nice snapshot of what editors are looking for today and helps us know the right way to get things ready to shoot so it can be in line with what a magazine would be looking for, and then he also gives us a little etiquette on how we should post and proceed. How to know your project is good 7:55 How to submit 12:05 Submitting a project outside of Utah 15:35 Posting etiquette 16:35 Presenting an extraordinary home 22:00 What Brad’s looking for 24:30 The marketplace and where it’s going right now 31:10 What makes a great cover 38:00 Celebrating the win 50:50 How Brad gets inspired 53:30 “[An echo chamber design] is something that you’ll find on Pinterest and Instagram, and then you’ll just keep seeing it and keep seeing it, and it feeds the design. I don’t wanna call out a design genre, but I will: Farmhouse. The white and the black windows, and the straw basket, and the whole thing, there is great farmhouse design, but the kind we wanna see is a real farmhouse.” 30:35 https://www.instagram.com/alicelaneinteriors/ https://www.instagram.com/alicelanehome/ https://alicelanehome.com/ https://www.facebook.com/AliceLaneHome https://www.pinterest.com/alicelanehome/ https://www.youtube.com/alicelanehomecollectionsaltlakecity News Letter: https://manage.kmail-lists.com/subscriptions/subscribe?a=HZENWY&g=PFcqV5

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0:00.0	Welcome to Dear Alice, a lifestyle approach to interior design.
0:22.1	Hello everyone and welcome to Dear Alice.
0:24.7	Today we have a fun treat for you.
0:27.2	We have the very, our very own Bradme.
0:29.8	These are Editor-in-Chief of Utah Style and Design Magazine.
0:32.9	Welcome Brad.
0:33.9	Thank you.
0:34.9	Good to be here.
0:35.9	Yes, he's also the lifestyle editor of Salt Lake Magazine and of Booker Retone magazine
0:39.9	all the way in Florida.
0:42.2	Kind of an odd mix.
0:43.2	Awesome.
0:44.2	I like though that it stretches kind of coast to coast and then you can give us a nice snapshot
0:48.4	of what editors are looking for today.
0:50.8	Sure.
0:51.8	Soon I thought this would be an awesome podcast because so much of our work is like getting
0:56.0	things to the finish line so we can shoot it so that hopefully we can turn it over to
1:00.1	an amazing editor like Brad and that he'll want to feature our magazine if it's in line
1:04.2	with what he's looking for.
1:05.6	And since we have such a big audience of interior designers or many of you at home that
1:09.7	might wonder how is a story picked up in your favorite shelter magazines, Brad's going
1:14.4	to help us know the right way to do it, what people are looking for today in publishing
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