04.21.2008 - SPACE LIFESTYLE MAGAZINE RECEIVES AMERICAN INHOUSE DESIGN AWARD
NEW YORK /April 21/ -- Space Lifestyle Magazine wins an American Inhouse Design Award for its "John Herrington/Rocketplane" spread, which was featured in the Fall 2007 digital edition. The winning layout is now available for free online and is located in the publication's archives. The layout was created and designed by Michael Delia, who has been given the title of Creative Director at Space Lifestyle Magazine. Images from the awarded entry were provided by Rockeplane, Inc.
Graphic Design USA (GDUSA) honors those who win The American Inhouse Design Awards. GDUSA is the monthly business-to-business magazine for graphic design professionals and was established in 1963. According to GDUSA, for nearly four decades the magazine sponsored competitions honoring the best in creative and business communications.
To awardees, GDUSA released the following statement, "Each entry is judged against itself on its own merits, for excellence in creativity and effectiveness. As a practical matter, this results each year in a selection of between 10 percent and 15 percent of the entries as winners. 2008 is no different, though extremely competitive. A recordbreaking 5,500 entries were submitted and just a shade over 10 percent were honored with an embossed Award Certificate."
Space Lifestyle Magazine is the only digital edition publication on space and the space sector. Reaching both a popular and professional audience with the tagline "Space With Your Life In Mind," Space Lifestyle Magazine is currently giving subscribers to the publication prizes, such as a parabolic flight ticket and several Music Paks from Smoothlounge.com.
New Forks, LLC, the parent company of Space Lifestyle Magazine, is a virtual media company and is based in Grand Forks, North Dakota. President of New Forks, LLC, David Bullock, is excited about receiving the award, "Michael Delia does terrific work for us. And, we have been getting lots of compliments on the magazine. Most of these accolades, from both the public and the space business community, are about the layout."
You can find Space Lifestyle Magazine online and for the Amazon Kindle at (www.spacelifestylemagazine.com).
Contact: David Bullock, Publisher of Space Lifestyle Magazine. Tel. 347-404-5431 E-mail: press@newforks.net
09.04.2007 - SPACE LIFESTYLE MAGAZINE LAUNCHED ONLINE BY NEW FORKS, LLC
GRAND FORKS, ND / Sep. 4 / -- Space Lifestyle Magazine, a digital edition publication on the people and happenings in space and the space sector launched today from their site, www.spacelifestylemagazine.com. New Forks, LLC (www.newforks.net) is a virtual media company based in Grand Forks, North Dakota. Subscribers to the free online magazine will be notified of the launch of the magazine through an email blast.
Subscribers and anyone who goes to the site www.spacelifestylemagazine.com can view the magazine online with any standard Internet browser. By using a Published Web Format (PWF), from the magazine's publisher Texterity, Inc., readers will have the fastest loading time and the sharpest text to read their digital edition. The premier issue of Space Lifestyle Magazine not only has pictures and text, much like a traditional magazine, but readers can also watch video.
To attract subscribers to Space Lifestyle Magazine, New Forks has held a contest, where the 10,000th, 20,000th, 30,000th and 60,000th subscriber will each win a prize. The 60,000th subscriber will win a parabolic flight ticket from the Zero Gravity Corporation (ZERO-G). SmoothLounge.com, the top-ranked Internet radio station, has provided all other prizes. All winners of the contest will be announced together at a future date.
“Everyone involved has worked really hard to put forth this first issue,” said New Forks, company President and Editor-in-Chief of Space Lifestyle Magazine, David Bullock, “Being a virtual company, and both in media and within the space sector and work, advice and help has come from all over.”
Virtual contributors to the magazine include writers Nancy Atkinson, Lois Elfman, Michael Ricciardi and Robert Yeiser. Michael Delia has created layout and art remotely.
New Forks, LLC (www.newforks.net) is an independent, start-up media company based in Grand Forks, North Dakota.
Contact: David Bullock, President of New Forks, LLC. Tel. 347-404-5431 E-mail: press@newforks.net
05.17.2007 - ZERO-G RIDE, CASH, MUSIC FOR ONLINE SPACE MAGAZINE SUBSCRIBERS
GRAND FORKS, ND / May. 17 / -- New Forks, LLC (www.newforks.net) announced today that its 60,000th subscriber to their online space magazine will win an official ticket for a flight experiencing ‘weightlessness.’ The winner’s open ticket was purchased from the parabolic flight company Zero Gravity Corporation (ZERO-G) (www.gozerog.com). In addition, a $500 stipend will be given to the 60,000th subscriber. Those who wish to subscribe can go to the New Forks, LLC website at www.newforks.net.
The 10,000,th 20,000th and 30,000th subscribers also will each win a prize. New Forks is offering three SmoothLounge.com CD Packages from the top-ranked Internet radio station SmoothLounge.com (www.smoothlounge.com). The 10,000th and 20,000th subscribers will receive a “D*Luxe CD Package” of five nu-jazz CDs, an official SmoothLounge.com baseball cap and an official SmoothLounge.com mouse pad. The 30,000th subscriber will receive a SmoothLounge.com “Premium CD Package” of 10 nu-jazz CDs, an official SmoothLounge.com baseball cap and an official SmoothLounge.com mouse pad.
“Most of our current subscribers have requested to find out more product information about space tourism, while also expressing interests outside of space such as music, food and wine,” said New Forks company President, David Bullock, “Having this contest is a great way to adhere to current subscribers needs and have those needs grow.” The company plans on launching the premier issue of its magazine sometime this summer. The online publisher of the magazine is Texterity, Inc. (www.texterity.com).
Using Texterity’s Published Web Format (PWF), subscribers can view the magazine online with any standard Internet browser. Texterity’s PWF imaging technology provides readers with the fastest loading time and the sharpest text. It also enables enhancements such as multimedia content, simple search functions, YouTube integration, RSS, digital archives and more.
This is New Forks, LLC’s second contest. In February, two $3,000 prizes were awarded for the best space journalism pieces submitted in the "published" and "unpublished" categories. The “unpublished” winner will appear in the company’s new online magazine.
New Forks, LLC (www.newforks.net) is an independent, start-up media company based in Grand Forks, North Dakota.
Contact: David Bullock, President of New Forks, LLC. Tel. 347-404-5431 E-mail: press@newforks.net
02.20.2007 - SPACE WRITING CONTEST WINNERS BLAST OFF WITH CASH PRIZES
GRAND FORKS, ND / Feb. 20 / -- The start-up media company New Forks, LLC (www.newforks.net) announced today the winners of its Space Writing Contest. Two $3,000 prizes were awarded for the best space journalism pieces submitted in the "published" and "unpublished" categories. New Forks Contest winners Lois Elfman of New York and Nancy Atkinson of Illinois, were notified about their $3,000 prizes on January 30, and each received a check for the winning amount.
"I'm very honored and grateful to have won," said Nancy Atkinson, winner of the "published" category, "I've been writing about space exploration for several years, and it's a thrill to have your work recognized in this way."
Lois Elfman, winner of the "unpublished" category said, "Winning this contest has motivated me to keep exploring new and diverse venues in my writing."
"Our contest was a success and we are delighted with the results," said David Bullock, President of New Forks, LLC. "The two winning articles grasped onto the idea of what we're looking for in future New Forks publications. Ms. Elfman and Ms. Atkinson have truly set the tone for what we are trying to accomplish. Both articles give the company and its employees a direction for further speculation and inquiry about space and the space sector," he said.
The contest opened on Sept. 14, 2006 and ended at midnight on Dec. 31, 2006. Submitted works were judged by David Bullock, President of New Forks, LLC, Prof. U. R. Rao, Former Chairman of the Indian Space Research Organization, and Maura Mackowski, a Science Writer, Historian, and member of the National Association of Science Writers.
Lois Elfman won in the Unpublished Works Category. She wrote a human-interest feature article on a topic of her choosing from the subject of space and the space sector. New Forks will publish an edited version of her work in its yet-to-be-released initial publication on space and the space sector, scheduled for sometime this year.
Nancy Atkinson won the Published Works Category award for, "From Kendall County to Mars." Her article about Neil Mottinger, a previous resident of Oswego, Illinois was published in the Ledger-Sentinel Newspaper in December 2003. Ms. Atkinson told the story of Mottinger's journey within the space sector to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California, where he worked in several senior positions including the recent Mars Exploration Rovers (MER) mission.
New Forks, LLC (www.newforks.net) is an independent, start-up media company based in Grand Forks, North Dakota.
Contact: David Bullock, President of New Forks, LLC. Tel. 347-404-5431 E-mail: press@newforks.net.
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