Magazine Project-Final

The magazine project was our final for this class. The title we made earlier in the year was to be our title for this magazine. We could change the look, but not the theme. I had such a blast with this one.

There were several papers in a packet we needed to fill out before we could start really sketching ideas. My professor wanted to make sure we really knew what my end goal was for the overall view of the magazine.





















Above are a few sketches. I had several pages plastered with ideas for all the pages I would need to design. I knew I wanted this to flow, and be my best project yet.

My cover was a challenge, partly because I had to change my original title design, and partly cause it's just challenging doing something like this for the first time. But it was fun. Above was my first draft I presented to critique day. I was still working out many of my article ideas, and what exactly I wanted my main focus to be. Below is my original Table of Content pages.

Above these two pages were side by side and wasn't a bad start. I thought they would be the easiest ones to do. While they progressively changed and had their own challenges, they were the easiest.

 Above was my third page. I wasn't really sure what to put there so I thought a nice note from the editor wouldn't look bad. Turned out fun to write.

A special thanks was mandatory, so I took the bios from the bloggers I took my stories from. This page was a struggle, and looking back I probably could have been ok going a little more simple.

By the second critique day I had most of my pages completed and had made some minor adjustments on the older pages. Above, my cover picture changed. I was trying to lighten it with a more airy picture. My title went back to resembling more of the original title design. Since the older pages didn't have many changes made, I'll skip those and show you the rest of the magazine pages.

These next two pages were my first actual article. I was struggling with not having enough white space and getting all the info in there.

I knew these two pages would need a lot of work.

Pages 8, above, and 9, below, were in the middle. I wanted them to be dark and heavy. They were suppose to be a stark contrast to the rest of the magazine which was suppose to be light and airy.

This was my first stab at achieving that goal, and it was very heavy. I knew it would need some adjusting.

This page, above, was the start of a four page article. It was a lot of information, but was a nice lead way into what I wanted to do with the other pages.

Page 11, above, had to be just as light as page 10 since they were next to each other, but I wanted there to be more life. I wanted to add more excitement to the over all feel of both pages without over powering one way or the other.

I had fun playing with the title of these articles. Page 12 was one of my favorites.

This was my favorite section to work on. At the end of this critique I was still two pages and a back cover short. I had to have a final to present shortly there after. I felt great with the results.

I was so thrilled with my final product, despite the printing processes being a nightmare. I'm still proud of what I was able to achieve. This was my first time working on a project this large. I know it still has some work that needs to be done on it, but for where I was at back then, this was amazing work for me.