MUSAADE IREM ATAYIK MAVA

The last person who we collaborated on our first issue was David. And David
was a challenging person. He was questioning everything and we weren’t
capable of the answers. We didn’t think very much about our purpose at first,
we weren’t capable of explaining what our purpose was. It was a big mistake.
I realized that you have to think about all the details before you start. David
was thinking that we were not explicit enough. He thought that what we
wrote in our instagram bio, ‘‘Local artist community’’ was not correct and he
advised us to change it. After a few debates between us we decided to make
a more clear explanation to him and also to our followers and we posted
explaining the true purpose of Müsaade. I think what we had with David was
a common misunderstanding. From that I learned not to let others interfere
in our business and we should’ve given more information to people.
Second struggle that we faced was properly defining our aim and our identity.
Sometimes it’s really hard to put into words what you’re thinking and
planning, that leads to
misunderstandings and missing information. After finishing the first issue,
we realized that we didn’t have a website and we didn’t know how to create
one. With some help from our friends we figured it out and named it ‘‘musaade.art’’.
When we thought we accomplished the hardest task, there was the
problem of where to upload the online magazine. As we prepare our magazine
in InDesign, we turn it to PDF but when you upload it as PDF, it seems
very sloppy and cheap. Therefore we found another website called ‘‘YUMPU’’
where you can upload your pdf and then it turns it into a magazine form. We
were very relieved when we found out about YUMPU but it proves that
starting a job without preliminary preparation is a bad idea.