Magazine Concept

The concept of my magazine is a music photography magazine, aimed at those wanting to get involved in this style of photography. My aim is to focus more on the art of photography, emphasising how it can be an article to treasure. It will be sold on Etsy...

For this week’s production day, we had to create a set of marketing and promotion designs that would be used as part of the magazine’s launch campaign.

Billboard:

The first item that I produce was a billboard that would appear in the streets. I chose the background image...

For this week's production task, we had to create different multimedia designs for Trashion, the magazine we had to design last week. This meant that we had to design different platforms, such as websites and mobile phone applications, that would appeal to the target a...

Trashion was described to us as a fashion/culture magazine that is based within the alternative scene. It focuses largely on creativity, especially within vintage fashion, whilst also taking hold of the ‘make do and mend’ trend that is one the rise. The target audience...

Directed Study:

As part of a group, we had to create 4 different pages for magazine, all of which had to include our 'house style' that we created ourselves. Ours was formulated in the following way:

House Style:

Grids: 3 columns.

Size font:

Headers - 65pt

Text - 9pt

Colours:

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Direct Study - Colour Case Studies:

The first part of this week's directed study we have to find colour case studies and look into how the colours are used within the designs to create meaning. I have chosen to look at the crayola and logos.

Crayola:

Crayola is a supplier...

Directed Study - Logos:

For the first part of our directed study this week, we have to find 3 'interesting' logos to analyse, compare, contrast, and evaluate. I have chosen the logos for Tostitos, Kolner Zoo, and Circus of Magazines.

 Tostitos:

This is a food company that...

Week 2 of Visual Design and we're on the topic of typography. For those that don't know, this is the style and appearance of written language.

In our lecture today, we were taken through the ins and outs of fonts. We looked a different types, such as serif, sans-serif,...

3 sets of cold hands, 2 flatmates (plus one media friend), and 1 big old walk later and we have completed the Urban Safari.

It took us about an hour to complete it, but it was really fun to walk around exploring. The amount of places that we found that we had never seen...

Today, I had my very first lecture for Visual Design. This included an introduction to not only my lecturer, but also what the module is about and how we will be assessed for it.  Honestly, although it was only a quick introduction, it has got me very excited to get st...