1. Create a 32-page magazine, which explores graphic design experimentally. 2. As an experimental font journal like FUSE magazine. 3. Design a website which explores the concept of PLAY. 4. Create a LINEAR MOTION GRAPHICS piece, which uses the word PLAY as a starting point. I chose to produce the 32-page magazine, as this is where I foresee my career. I decided to base my magazine on Fashion as I think the layouts look very interesting in the fashion magazines because of the way they produce the photos with the type and also they have very interesting advertisements in them. I also find doing fashion magazine layouts enjoyable I don’t see it as doing work, so I decided to call my magazine Play taken from the saying ALL work No Play but I changed it to NO Work All Play as this is what I feel when doing the layouts for magazines.
So first of all I researched models and photographers to include in my magazine as the models and photographers also play with fashion as the model plays around with the photographer to
ce these amazing images we see in the magazines. I then got all my images and information together of the model I was using which was a new super model called Catherine McNeil. I then did the same for my photographer, which was David Bailey as he was a well-known and very good fashion photographer.
I then Manipulated these images Playing around with the colours and layouts of them. I didn’t change David Bailey’s photographs as I was doing an article on him and wanted the viewer to see them for how he played around with the model and the background to get his final images. I really enjoyed changing the images of the model as I found it very therapeutic and relaxing also seeing the outcome of the images, but on some of the images I only changed the lighting and some times nothing at all as I found the images looked good and worked already for the theme of my magazine.
Putting the Magazine together, again I really enjoy doing this as I like playing around with the composition and adding the type so it balances with the images, this part of the magazine is were the word play is interpreted as I don’t see doing layouts as work as I really get pleasure out of doing this. I would of liked my magazine to have a little information and what information I do have I would of liked to make it look very interesting by making the type look almost like an image, but I did have to have a certain amount of text so I am going to produce the magazine to look sophisticated but with playful images. The spread that I think works the best is pages 3-4 as I really like the way the images have been changed, they look very colourful and playful but also sophisticated, the type also fits in well with the layout. Also there are another two spreads that I like, they are pages 10-11 and pages 12-13 the reason for me likening these are because I think they are very sophisticated also I think the two images are very strong and look really good. I did add a design to the image on page 11, I did this as I have been researching mm Paris designs and I think they look really good so I experimented with the image and I think it looks really good and makes the image stand out more. I do think the David Bailey pages are a little plane but I wanted the viewer to see the photographs the way David Bailey done them, but the positioning of the text relates to the rest of the
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I do think my magazine works really well as I have interpreted the word play in to it. I think my magazine is very interesting as some of my images are very different to any other magazine these images look more like pieces of art work, the layout to the magazine doesn’t look very playful but the procedure to the final out come was very playful but also the issue of the magazine is called No Work All Play to represent how
I feel about making the magazine layouts as a personal opinion. I did really enjoy doing this magazine as I find producing magazines very enjoyable and I find fashion very interesting so putting the two together I found it very satisfying and very much enjoyed myself, this is were I would like to see my career producing fashion magazines such as Vogue, Another Magazine, Dazed and Confused and ID magazine. Once I had printed my work I had realised there was a few printing eras, I had realised the end of the name Cathrine McNeil was missing but when I looked on the screen the name was there. I could not reprint my magazine, as I had no more paper to print on to, as I used a different type of paper than what was in the printer. But apart from the printing eras I think my magazine works really well it looks good and the paper makes it look more professional.
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