my booklet layouts

I then made a sixteen page booklet on glitch fashion, The reason for me choosing glitch fashion was because I wanted to be interested in my magazine so I choose fashion as I am really interested in it as it is in my every day life and I had to make a decision on the word glitch and blast. I choose the word glitch because I wanted to talk about fashion that has gone wrong and glitch means an error. So my booklet is about fashion that has gone wrong and fashion mistakes made by celebrities.





My front cover is very plain but I think it works well because there are no images and the page has a lot of space on it. I really like the positioning of the type, I also like the way the type starts to look like a pattern. I have chosen Baskerville for my type as I think it looks that little more professional and has that little more detail to it.
The page that works the best is Victor and Rolf spread,






The reason I like this one the best is because there is not much information on the page so it doesn’t look overcrowded, I like the positioning of the letters on the first page as they look like they are flowing down to the images. The image is very small but powerful because of the space around it. I also like the distance between the two sets of type because I think it has a great feel about the spacing. I think the other pages had a little too much information on them and that made the pages look too busy and some of the images were to big taking up to much space for example the uma Thurman spread.






Also on this page the heading is too plain as the letters are not really mixing up and this doesn’t represent the word glitch. I am not really sure weather my magazine worked but I really liked my idea. I think if the rest of my pages looked like the front cover and the Victor and Rolf spread the booklet would of worked really well. I think the other pages looked to busy. For my type I got my inspiration from David Carson’s ray gun, were his type is different in sizes and turned up side down and he makes it look like an image.

I have also made changes to my magazine, which I think is much better as I have tried to make the whole of this booklet look like the Victor and Rolf page spread. The pages in the third booklet looks much better as there is less information so the pages don’t look to busy and all the type is made to look interesting and different. The spread which I think has improved the most is the John Galliano for Dior in my first magazine design there was too many images on one spread so that didn’t leave much space for the heading or the information.




So for my changes magazine I decided to use one image and only use a small amount of information so the pages look much better as there’s a lot of space on the page and you feel you can focus on it more as it isn’t to busy.
I think the best pages in this book are the Victor and Rolf page and also the London fashion week spread because of again the space on the page.






I like the distance between the heading, the image and the information, I also think the positioning of the heading down the page makes it look like a pattern I think this magazine works best because it is interesting to look at because of the positioning of the letters and each page has a different layout it also still gives you information but not to much writing because I think that it can get to boring.

Hamlet Monalogue To bo or not to be

My next brief includes a monologue from Shakespeare’s Hamlet, To be or not to be; first I
created a classical piece just by changing the type and the composition of the type.



First I looked at what type suited the classical theme so I decided on times new roman, as it is very plain and clear to read. I positioned the type into the centre, the reason for this was when I researched classical most of the information was centred but I think this also looks good because it is balanced. First I did different types of font on the same page.




But I decided that when the type is the same it looks much better as the mixed up type looks to different as the heading looks to big and the italic font looks to different from times new roman I think the same font looks much neater.
I then done the monologue in a modern version, I first started to play around with the composition of the type and changing the size of the heading I thought the heading was a little to big but the composition worked as it wasn’t to busy.





I then changed it again by making the type all different sizes and spread out across the page.




I don’t think this worked because the page is to busy and you can hardly read it. When I was researching hamlet I kept coming across imges of skulls so I decided to incorporate it in my modern version I placed the type in the shape of a skull.





Which I think looked good because the shape is very much like a skull and the page doesn’t look to busy there is the right amount of space around the type and the image. I think this works well even though it is a little hard to read.
The second part of this brief was to change the appearance of the monologue to the style of different celebrities. The first person I done was Amy Winehouse, so first of all I done any type of font and mixed them up all over the page overlapping them but I thought it looked too busy and very messy.So I then changed it to the type that you could read but I changed the composition, I placed the type on its side at the top of the page and her name straight across the page to represent her being on drugs as you can hardly read straight.





I think this really works well because of the composition of the type. I think the way you have to move the paper to read the monologue, but also the type is linked by touching one another this makes it that more interesting.
The second person I done was Gordon brown, I kept his design very plain because to me I think he is a very boring person.



I placed his monologue at the bottom of the page very small, as he has not made any changes since he has been priminister so he is still a very small man. I do like his design as it is very simple but because it is small and simple that doesn’t mean it wont grab your attention, some times less is best because it makes people come closer to find out what it is.
The third design I done was for Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie. First I done different types for each person but then I realised they are not that different from one another so I decided to do different monologues but making them very similar because that is what Brad and Angalina are starting to be a like, this is why they work but they would have to be viewed in a pair to under stand them.






My last one was Peaches Geldoff first I based my first design on a party invitation but I don’t think my design worked that well as the type seemed to be to close together.So I then decided to base it on a fashion advertisement as peaches is a fashion icon to teenagers and had also been doing modelling.





I think this one works well because of the composition of the type I like the way it looks a little messy but then looks really neat. I think it is a good layout the spacing around the type and the image makes the type stand out more.


I think out of all the work I have done, I think my best piece is the second magazine that I produced because I really like the double page spreads as they are not busy and the type is interesting to look at, you also have to concentrate on what the type says so you take more in, I really like the pattern the type makes and it relates to the word glitch. I have enjoyed making the magazine as I have learned a lot more on magazine layouts and I have also learned how to produce them in indesign which I have never used before I really enjoyed experimenting with the type and producing different layouts with it.

Magazine layouts

Since the start of the year I have done a number of different pieces of work. For our first brief we had to recreate a magazine layout. First of all I looked at different magazine layouts, I then took a layout from the magazine “Another Magazine”, which I thought was interesting because of the size of the image and the different size type on the page. I started measuring the page for example the image, the space in between and all around the image and type. I then recreated the outline of everything in the layout using indesign.





Once I had drawn the outlines I thought the layout looked a little plain, but then i done a recreation of the layout, once I added the image and type, I think it looked really good as I liked the space around the image.




I then slightly changed the design by using the words delicate and dysfunctional. First of all I done the word delicate, the first thing I done was made the colours a lot lighter but I didn’t think it worked as I lost most of the image, so I decided to change the type to italic as I think it is very soft and light. I benefited from doing this part of my brief with indesign as I learnt how to use it.




I think this works as the type still goes with the theme of the layout. I then done a dysfunctional layout, I only changed the layout of the type making it all mixed up so it is not that easy to read.




I think this works well because I like the pattern the type makes and I also think the white space plays a big part on the page and it works well.
I then chose anther persons layout, I chose this specific persons piece of work because I thought it would be a challenge to try and change the layout. The person’s layout was based on dysfunctional so I tried to make it a lot different.



First of all I made most of the type larger so it would stand out more, I think this works because it is very bold but I do think it looks a little busy. I do think my changers worked a little better because it was a lot more dysfunctional, but I do like the first layout because of the spacing round the information and the images.