Anyways, really glad I finished the magazine prototype. Overall, I'm really proud of what I came up with. The critiques really did help me with the redesign. I decided to go for a clean and organized route. For my redesign, I tweaked the sell lines on the cover and added one more.
I changed a lot for my department page. I took the advice from Theresa and blew up the picture. I also cleaned up the page and went for a different color palette.
For the features, I started completely from scratch. I made a two spread feature about mooncakes. Based on what I heard from the publishing capstone group, they wanted a segment on having recipes for different skill levels. I actually found an article online that offered recipes for different skill levels (hence the random mooncake recipes).
Well here is my design! Let me know what you guys think and I can tweak it even more for my portfolio.
Cover
Department Page/Standards
Feature Opening Spread
Feature Inside Spread
Color Palette and Type Styles
Ohmygosh. I love that feature! The little spatula icons are super adorable, and the organization is great and accessible.
ReplyDeleteAlso - what did you do to get that texture on the display/headline copy for the feature splash page? I love those sorts of effects and I would love to learn how. :3