Magazine Cover Design

1. How does the design that you created demonstrate your knowledge of Magazine Design and the parts of a magazine cover and interior? I created the cover of the magazine and my design that I created demonstrated my knowledge of Magazine Design and the parts of a magazine cover because I used the type tool; I set up layers for each of the different parts of the cover, I used drop shadow and outer glow.

2. In what ways does your magazine connect to the corporate identity of the magazine? What are some design queues that you used from the existing magazine? Before I started the design, I looked at other ELLE magazine covers to get an idea of where the usually put their cover line, their bar-code, their date, their main cover line, etc. I look for whether or not they put their masthead in front of or behind the main image. I copied some of their fonts, and ideas on the size and color of the cover lines.

3. How did completing the brainstorming packet and sketches affect your design process? It made my design process faster because I already had down the cover lines, the main cover lines, and the date and price. The sketch also helped me move faster because I knew where I was going to place everything which only left me to think about the color scheme and font chooses and shifting things around to make them look clean.

4. How did you like working with a partner? How do you think working with a partner makes the design process easier and more difficult? I loved working with a partner because I was able to give and take advise on how to make each other’s project better. I also thought it was fun working with someone and being able to plan the project out with them. The only difficult thing was the coordination between the interior and exterior because some of the decisions that made one look better, did not work for the other one.

5. Looking at your partner’s design, if you were to design your partner’s portion by yourself how would it look different? What would you have changed? I would have changed the placement of the pictures compared to the text. I also think I would make the colors for the interior correspond more with the colors on the cover.

6. Describe the ideal partner (co-worker / co –designer)? The ideal partner is someone that will listen to your ideas and also give you ideas. Also someone that you can rely on being in class and doing their work to the best of their ability.