A sampling at The Watercooler

During my early years at the BMJ, I was approached by the company HR Director and informed she'd seen my work on the departmental newsletter I'd initiated and she was interested in using my skill and experience to create a newsletter for the company, along the same vein as the one I was presently working on.
This started what would be an awesome 3 year experience working on The Watercooler which enabled me to develop my skills on Indesign using YouTube, Google and the 'oooh what does this do' method as my tutors.
So much fun! There were days when I'd have an hour left til 5pm on a slow work day, spend half an hour working on a design then binning it completely just to rework something much better to replace it all the while, listening to Infected Mushroom on loop (this experience led me to listening to them on YouTube, and discovering a '300 and Infected Mushroom' remix. Am-a-zing!)
I had my moments of 'why won't you [insert profanity here]', but that was part of the charm. I'd get a thrill out of just staring at an article for what felt like ages, then just being hit my an idea which would form perfectly on paper.

Below is a taster (and tester) of one of the issues I was the most proud of....I'll try and rework some more issue in at a later date.
(Annoyingly some of the Indesign effects seem to be a little weird on this copies, possible the effect of having converted a PDF into jpeg, but hoping it won't spoil the effect of the newsletter to much....so...if it looks odd/wrong, that's why.)