TIME FLOWS IN JUST ONE DIRECTION
Over my 25 years of serving in various roles with Woodworker’s Journal, I have had to say farewell to many coworkers, and I seldom was happy about it. But Senior Art Director Jeff Jacobson was here on the job even before I was part of the team and has been an anchor of our publishing world throughout. He has apparently had enough of me now (and who could blame him?) and is retiring.
Although he started out primarily as a designer and technical artist working on Rockler product instructions, when Ann Rockler Jackson decided to start a woodworking magazine (), Jeff was there for issue #1, illustrating the projects, creating exploded view drawings and elevation details. Like most of us, Jeff finds it a bit embarrassing to look back at those first efforts in the 1980s. (My first articles were a challenge to my fellow editors — "heavy lifting," they called it.) But as the magazine evolved, so did Jeff’s work. As a fellow woodworker, Jeff also has
