Sad news today. MacUser is to cease publication. The final issue made no mention of the fact, except for an image of the first issue without any caption or comment.
I was an associate editor of MacUser (both the UK & the US editions) for many years & photographed, illustrated (& even wrote) for many many issues. The UK offices were 5 minutes walk from the studio & I really enjoyed those trips to New York. I made many friends.
I had the pleasure of seeing the Macintosh evolve from its earliest days, exciting & revolutionary times. I even met Steve Jobs a couple of times. He was horrid!
I originally created this cover for another magazine before MacUser started: MacUser upcycled it a year later. The Macintosh 128k in the photo was my own, one of the very first to arrive in the UK, long before it was released here. I used it to create the images for Apple's advertising campaign that launched the Mac in the UK. I've still got it. Model number M 00001. It even works.
A few years later we had a cat & I realised how inaccurate that image is. This was before Photoshop, this is a straight un-retouched photograph using studio flash and a long exposure to capture the screen.
