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WHY ADVERTISE IN THE A&AJ?
PUBLICATION AND COPY DATES
ADVERTISING RATES
SUPPLEMENTS AND INSERTS
FORMAT
DESIGN REQUIREMENTS
PROFESSIONAL PARTNERSHIPS
E-PROMOTION
The Art & Architecture Journal has a campaigning ethos to enable the continuing development of succesful and qualitative public art commissions, projects and collaboration. 
The A&AJ promotes knowledge sharing and professional networking.
The A&AJ communicates to a dedicated and specialised professional readership including artists, arts administrators, architects, public art agencies, libraries, academics, local authorities, health authorities, interior designers, urban designers and planners, landscape architects, craftspeople, environmental organisations and property, construction and development.
Each issue of A&AJ is linked to a conference that is part of the National Public Art Conference Programme, organised by the A&AJ and it's professional partners.
The A&AJ is a bespoke publication and organises a programme of bespoke, partnered conferences. Professional partners provide resources and finance to collaborate in each issue of the magazine and its related conference.
Each iissue of the A&AJ and its related conference has a theme. This enables a specialised review and qualitative debate focused on specific trends, relevant questions and real-life practice and case studies.
WHY ADVERTISE IN THE ART & ARCHITECTURE JOURNAL?
The Art & Architecture Journal is the leading UK magazine on public art - contemporary urban culture - architecture and provides an essential information exchange and reference resource.
The A&AJ is published four times a year as a 96 page double issue presenting over 80 articles per annum together with news and opinion dedicated to public art. 
Each issue of the A&AJ and its related conference has a theme that can closely reflect the concerns and activities of advertisers and partners.
5,000 copies of each issue are distributed through subscription, controlled distribution and to specialist art / architecture / design bookshops in the UK and worldwide, as well as at the A&AJ conferences. This ensures that leading influential groups of commissioners, administrators, developers, architects, urbanists and corporations receive the magazine
The A&AJ also works in partnership with bodies such as the Resource for Urban Design Information (RUDI), the Architecture Centre Network (ACN), Axis (an artists' database), so that it can communicate with up to 30,000 targeted individuals via post and e-mail.
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PUBLICATION, COPY & ADVERTISEMENT DATES FOR 2009, 2010, 2011

A&AJ 68/69 A&AJ 70/71 A&AJ 72/73
Autumn 2009 Winter 2010 Spring 2010
Publication Date: Oct 1st 2009 Jan 1st 2010 Apr 1st 2010
Copy Date: Aug 15th 2009 Nov 15th 2009 Feb 15th 2010
Advert Copy Deadline: Sep 1st 2009 Dec 1st 2009 Mar 1st 2010
Theme Ceramic City: Design & the Public Realm Genius Loci
Spirit of Place
- Essex
British Sculpture Biennial
A&AJ 74/75 A&AJ 76/77 A&AJ 78/79
Summer 2010 Autumn 2010 Winter 2011
Publication Date: Jul 1st 2010  Oct 1st 2010 Jan 1st 2011
Copy Date: May 15th 2010 Aug 15th 2010 Nov 15th 2010
Advert Copy Deadline: Jun 1st 2010 Sep 1st 2010 Dec 1st 2010
Theme Art & Seaside Towns 5th National Public Art Conference 1st European Forum:
Istanbul

A&AJ 80/81 A&AJ 82/83 A&AJ 84
Spring 2011 Summer 2011 Autumn 2011
Publication Date: Apr 1st 2011 Jul 1st 2011 Oct 1st 2011
Copy Date: Feb 15th 2011 May 15th 2010 Aug 15th 2011
Advert Copy Deadline: Mar 1st 2011 Jun 1st 2011 Sep 1st 2011
Theme Art & Sound & Environment Art & Health 6th National Public Art Review
A&AJ 85 A&AJ 86
Winter 2012 Spring 2012
Publication Date: Jan 1st 2012 Apr 1st 2012
Copy Date: Nov 15th 2011 Feb 15th 2012
Advert Copy Deadline: Dec 1st 2011 Mar 1st 2012
Theme Cultural Olympiad Art in Transit
ADVERTISING RATES
Total Available: 16 pages of advertisements
Inside front / inside back / back + 13 interior
Full Page Bleed: 276 x 236mm, Full Page Trim: 270 x 230mm
Dimensions (mm) Single Advert Annual Advert (4 issues)
height x width 4 for the price of 3
Mono Colour Mono Colour
Back Cover 270 x 230 £2500 £7500
Inside Front 270 x 230 £2250 £6750
Inside Back 270 x 230 £2000 £6000
Full Page 270 x 230 £1000 £1500 £3000 £4500
Half Page Vertical 250 x 102 £750 £900 £2250 £2700
Half Page Horizontal 122 x 210 £750 £900 £2250 £2700
Quarter Page 122 x 102 £400 £550 £1200 £1650
Eighth Page 58 x 102 £200 £300 £600 £800
Advertising Agency discount 10%
A box of A&AJ issues contains 38 copies. These are available and cost £225 each (£200 + £25 p&p)
REDUCED RATE FOR EIGHTH PAGE ADVERTISEMENTS
Four consecutive full colour eighth page advertisements in Art & Architecture Journal at the remarkably modest rate of £800, ie. £200 per issue, size 58 x 102mm
SUPPLEMENTS AND INSERTS
A supplement is a 4pp colour section (page size  - 270 x 230mm) printed as an independent advertisement feature to promote your projects, events and conferences.
The supplement can be produced either as an integral part of the A&AJ itself or as a loose insert within it.
Past supplements have promoted a colour theory installation by Andy Bradford at the University of West England, Bristol. Projects by artist Jochen Gerz on his collaborations with the Public. A review of Public Art projects commissioned as part of a Regeneration strategy, published for the ODPM Delivering Sustainable Communities Summit, Manchester, January 2005. A 44pp supplement Next Generation published to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Art & Architecture Society, November 2002
Click here to see past supplements published by A&AJ
Cost: £4500
Additional run-on sheets and copies of the A&AJ by arrangement with order.
The A&AJ will send inserts that you provide with the A&AJ magazine and conference mail-outs to it's dedicated readership and database.
Up to 10gms - £1500 per mail-out of the A&AJ magazine or conference (5000 copies)
11 to 15gms - £1700 per mail-out of the A&AJ magazine or conference (5000 copies)
Heavier inserts are subject to a separate quotation based on weight.
Inserts or similar material that you provide can also be included inside the A&AJ conference packs presented to the attendees
Cost: £500
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FORMAT
FORMAT Colour magazine publication
PUBLISHED Quarterly
PAGES 96pp plus 4pp cover
PAGE SIZE 270 x 230mm
PAPER 130gms satimatt silk
TEXT 80pp colour. 16pp mono on coloured stock
COVER 250gms satimatt silk
BINDING Perfect binding
DESIGN SPECIFICATION
Art & Architecture Journal is produced entirely digitally. To ensure correct reproduction of your advertisement please supply digital files following the guidelines below :
Disk: Platform Apple Macintosh
Software: QuarkXpress, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Acrobat
Quark: Provide all linked images 300dpi in CMYK format and all used fonts both screen and printer fonts.
Illustrator: Provide embedded or linked images 300dpi in CMYK format and either supply the fonts used or convert all fonts to outline within Illustrator.
PDF: PDF files should contain high resolution CMYK images (300dpi) and all fonts need to be embedded.
Fonts: Both screen and postscript fonts should be supplied with appropriate artwork.
Formats: JPEG, EPS, TIFF at 100% of required size and scanned/saved at 300dpi. Alternatively you can send a PDF file saved in CMYK preferably in JPEG format.
Delivery: Files to be supplied on CD, DVD or Zip, and labelled A&AJ 68/69 <file title> .
Proofs: Please supply with your artwork a corrected colour laser proof, digital cromalin or alternatively a screen optimised PDF for guidance.
PROFESSIONAL PARTNERSHIPS AND E-PROMOTION
A Professional Partnership with the A&AJ is a long-term two-way strategic association involving logo, media and editorial presence in the A&AJ and its conferences (the National Public Art Conference Programme), its website and other events.
The A&AJ is continually looking for professional partners involved in public art commissions, projects and events to collaborate in its activities. In particular in hosting, partnering and contributing to, the magazine and it's conferences. 
This collaboration can be tailor-made to suit each individual partner's requirements. It can include controlled distribution to specialised databases, promotional supplements and inserts, sponsorship for a particular issue and conference, editorial coverage, participation in a conference.
The A&AJ can also act as a Media Partner for conferences, projects and events organised by third parties and  which have local, national and international interest. This means it promotes a conference, project or event organised by other parties.
Click here for information on:
- PROFESSIONAL PARTNERSHIPS: collaborating with the A&AJ in it's magazine and conferences including using it to promote your own activities
- E-PROMTIONS: promoting your activities through an e-mail send-out to our highly specialised database of over 5,000 at a cost of only £300 (300 Euros)

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