Contents Page construction

first i added a banner at the bottom of the page to try and reduce the amount of white space

 i then began creating rectangles where my atricle names and summarys would go into, i decided to use two different alternating colours to try and help make the articles stand out from each other. 

the next step was to create the title section for the page, for this i used a horizontal rectangle that was red.

 after that i began creating the alternate article boxes on red.

Contents was then added to the top of the page and a rectangle that was edited using the Rubber tool in photoshop which has featured items written across it. 

 i then added page number using the same alternating colour scheme

 article names and summaries came next sticking to the alternating colour scheme

 after that i added images that linked in to my chosen article to help give some media for the page while still dealing with the whitespace issue on the right hand side of the page.

Front Cover Construction

 First i stated with a blank page and added a banner across the bottom of the page and added a red stroke around it,i did this by adding an achor point mid right on the box and removing the the top left anchor point

i then added a rectangle shape and rotated it using the free transform tool and added a grey coloured stroke around the box.

i then added my mast head image and rotated it to match the rectangle

i then copied the top rectangle and scaled them down, i then change the style of two by using black main colour with a red stroke

my next step was to insert my main image of my model

next i added a black box at the top to fade the picture and added my main banner with an overlapping banner on the top (see next Picture)

i then added my main Articles to the lower banner

i then put my coverline on the banner and my featured articles in the rectangles to the left

Evaluation

Evaluation

Through this process I learnt how temperamental technology can be on a good day, in this process I ran into so many problems I have lost count, the main one was storage of work especially Blogger, the other problem I ran into was during the photography stage of my project when a number of the images I had taken became corrupt and unusable, as these were the originals I had to do a re-shoot.

The technology I had to used was quite advanced for example I used many types of software’s such as Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Lightroom and the most important Adobe Photoshop, without the use of these software I would not have been able to get the level of professionalism that I personally believe that I managed to achieve on the final product, I believe this also help to attract my audience because it made my magazine look good and appropriate to the genre in which I was attempting to target, I also achieved this by using 3 of the main colours most commonly associated with the genre to try and help my magazine fit in with more ease.

I believe if my magazine was to be distributed it would be one of the key ways for the mass market of Classic Rock Fans to keep up to date with the most recent events yet be reminded of some of the most key events in history that helped shape the genre into such a distinctive genre as it is known as today.

Over the course of this project I have learnt to always be thinking on my feet in terms of design, such as how can I tweak this image to get the full effect from it? Or how can I take this design to the level? After the first few designs and mock-ups I discovered that personally “Okay” was just not good enough and that I had to keep pushing myself to think outside the box, also I learnt to keep a good amount of backups of my work in different locations in case anything happened to my work (like it did) overall I believe this project has help me become more creative and insight full in terms of magazine and not just Graphic Design.

Final Magazine

This is my final design for my magazine titled "Sticks + Stones"
This is the Front Cover:

as you can most likely see, my main house style comprises of three main colours : Red, White and Black.

My Contents Page at first felt crowded and cramped so to solve this problem i made into a double page contents page, i also attempted to create a mirrored looked:

Double Page Spread: