By now, you might have seen our editorial planning meeting for the September 2017 issue on Facebook Live. If not, you can click here to view it, or see below for a photo of us looking very serious/earnest during the live stream.

The brainstorming continued once cameras stopped rolling at the off-site meeting space, Breather. To help us learn a bit more about each other and to get our creative juices flowing, editor-in-chief Vanessa Craft had us design personal magazine covers that would have represented us at the age of 12. We took this task (possibly too) seriously. 

Here’s a collage of our work: 

After lunch, we broke off into smaller groups for another caffeine-fuelled brainstorm session. Lots of scribbling going on in this group, below. 

Here’s excited market editor Elaine Regio plotting all her shopping pages: 

Not pictured? All of falling asleep at 7 p.m. exhausted.