Project Magazine

This was near the end of the semester, and I was ready for christmas break. This project was to create four random pages in a magazine, as well as the cover. We were instructed to unify the pages so they were clearly identified from the same magazine. All the pages had to have numbers that stood out. The numbers had to be key numbers to what our magazines were about.

Because it is hard to remember the exact order of how I did these pages, I'm going to start with the cover. Below is the progression of how the cover started and eventually, what it turned into. My Magazine was about people aging. My numbers were those of certain keystone ages.

 The one on the bottom right was my finished design. I had more examples but as I looked at them again, I realized most of the changes were slight color gradation changes. i.e. making the grey darker and lighter. So I decided to just show the bigger changes. Below is my first page, number 16.

16 is a big number for many in the USA. It's the age when you can potentially get your license. Honestly 16 was a hard number to do much with at the time for me.

18 is the age when a teenager can finally say they are an adult. I think 18 went through a few more transitions then 16 did. Honestly I spent more time with this page.

21, the age of legal drinking. Most of what I changed with 21 was basically just the coloring. I played around with a few pictures, but basically this was the only one worth keeping. 

Obviously this page had the most drastic change. I started with 30 because that's the recommended age women should have started a family before. But after playing with it awhile, I realized that all my other pages had to deal with people, not gender specific. So I changed to a more exciting age of 65. At the time that was the age one could finally get social security. This page just flowed together after I made the age change. It was the one I spent the least amount of time on, but it's my favorite. 

So just to recap, above was my original starting design. I was feeling really good about it until after critique day. I knew I had some work to do. Below is what I finished with. 

Looking back I'm sure I could figure out how to get my numbers to have more personality and tie in with my design better. But since this was one of my first big projects like this, I was pretty happy with my results.