Showing posts with label J. Preliminary Task: finished products. Show all posts
Showing posts with label J. Preliminary Task: finished products. Show all posts

Monday, February 1, 2010

College magazine contents page


contents copy
Originally uploaded by Louis Harman

My college magazine contents page has been designed to present teenage student life in a college environment. Through this page i tried to show a unique style to categorising regular and special features with headers that were relevant to the audience and the flow of college life. I used the questionnaire i created to make sure that each individual section on the contents was what my audience had asked for. I included actual photgraphs of students in order to make it directly appealing to the audience. I knew that for a college magazine directed at students it would be apporpriate to include students in the photography. The i thought that a bright color scheme would also work to make the contents page look a lot more appealing along with the photoshop blending options i have used.

Overall i think that this page is quite sucessful in some aspects of magazine designs. The conventions i had established in my questionnaire regarding font styles and colour scheme worked quite well. I think that as an end-product the colour gradient works to smooth out the block design of the straight lines and block colours. I have learnt that although using a three colour, colour scheme consisting of a mono-toned variation, I think that i needed a second colour to split up the design as i have filled every space with basically the same tones so my contents page appears to full

College Magazine Cover


college mag copy
Originally uploaded by Louis Harman

The cover deisgn i created has a similar design layout to the contents. I tried to box in the image i took using the borders as shown. I think that this makes the entire cover look less effective, i know that if i were to recreate this it would feature a single image filling the cover with the text wrapping around more effectively. Other than this the cover design with colour scheme and logo/masthead design work quite well as i have balanced the three colour scheme accurately and made sure there are little or no visual barriers.

I have used many blending options to make sure that there are 3-D elements to my design, mainly around text-boxes, arrows and issue symbol. These effects prevent the whole image appearing flat or tedious. These are the tools that help my audience be drawn in to reading the publication but it is likely i have gone over the top in it's production. since the production of the preliminary task i feel i have sufficient knowledge to improve my magazine construction skills