Leanne Ford is the newest HGTV star to launch {a magazine}, working with a360media to launch FEEL FREE quarterly. Volume I hit newsstands on September 23, 2022.
“Our world is opening up once more, and in new methods — making this a good time to create,” Ford stated in a press launch. “FEEL FREE is right here to encourage free pondering, free dwelling, and the enjoyment of making a house YOU love. Throughout my profession, I’ve all the time inspired folks to create, saying ‘listed below are the concepts, the chances, and the instruments to play. Now it is YOUR flip.'”
The designer, identified for “Restored by Fords,” “Home Again With the Fords” and season 1 of “Rock the Block,” informed People that it’s greater than only a design journal.
“I actually needed it to be larger than design,” she informed the outlet forward of FEEL FREE’s launch. “The actuality is that it is an artwork journal that is centered in residence. It actually is not a house journal. I’m forging my very own path.”
Leanne Ford Graces the Cover of FEEL FREE
Ford’s creative fingerprint is definitely discovered all through FEEL FREE.
Not solely does she function its first cowl model, however in keeping with People, her handwriting was changed into a font for use within the publication. It additionally options her signature black-and-white coloration scheme, appearances from her buddies and daughter, Ever, and even her own residence.
The 41-year-old was additionally distinctive in her perspective. One of her cowl tales, “Sneak into Fallingwater with me,” sees Ford method Frank Lloyd Wright’s well-known home as if it had been her personal. The property is situated close to her hometown of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
“I like having a well-known architectural piece, however capturing it in a recent method is so enjoyable to me,” she informed People. “I used to be pretending I lived there and capturing it the way it was lived in and beloved when it was constructed.”
Leanne Ford Created an Interactive Magazine
Ford took to Instagram to clarify how the journal is supposed for use as a workbook.
“This is a thin dog-ear-it, mark-it-up, tear-it-out type of e book,” she wrote. “Circle it, underline it. Cross it out, for all I care. Just get that inventive vitality.”
The publication has tapped its featured artists to offer readers with suggestions and inspiration.
“And then my favourite factor that we’re doing in FEEL FREE journal is asking all these unimaginable artists to do a name to motion,” Ford stated whereas talking with Jackie Leishman on Instagram. “Now it is your flip. Here’s what we create, this is how we create it and now this is one thing to get your mind going.”
Leishman is a Los Angeles-based artist who confirmed off her studio in FEEL FREE, utilizing her name to motion to encourage readers to create collages.
According to a press launch, the journal can even characteristic “a ‘hand-drawn residence’ Leanne designed and accented with trendy trompe l’oeil;” “artist Heather Chontos’ attractive, rustic residence and studio in France” and “a profile of Sister Mary Corita, a groundbreaking screenprint artist.”
Ford’s web site has a name for different artists to submit their work.
It states, “Artists, photographers, designers, all you inventive souls on the market. Submit your concepts to our workforce for an opportunity to be in considered one of our upcoming points!”
