Magazine Lay-Out and Design

Magazine Lay-out and Design

This was my very first college magazine lay out design. I managed to feature a title, puff, at least three cover lines, a cover image, bar code and skyline (although it was featured towards the bottom of the page rather than the top.)  Therefore, I designed a lay out for my final draft of my college magazine cover in Powerpoint. 

This layout design features all of the necessary elements listed in the task list. After creating this layout design in Powerpoint for my final draft, I took to Photoshop to begin creating my magazine cover. The final product was this: 

This was an improvement on my initial design for many reasons. Firstly, the cover image is a lot clearer, making the magazine much more attractive to look at. Secondly, I managed to feature all of the necessary requirement, whereas last time I did not. I featured a date and issue number with my bar code at the bottom on this cover. I also featured a puff, three cover-lines featuring a font hierarchy, both serif and sans serif fonts, a sky-line and a title. I chose to make my magazine cover mainly monochrome as I felt it gave it a much more professional touch. However, eventually, with some persuasion, I was convinced to include more colours. I chose to make the main cover-lines red as I felt it went well with the black and white overall tone of the magazine cover, all the while standing out enough to make people actually want to read them. I made my puff bright yellow as the colour highly contrasts with the blacks and greys of the main image, which makes the price of the magazine stand out more, and therefore will lead customers to be drawn to the magazine due to its cheapness.