For my college magazine I firstly decided on the colour scheme, sticking to 3 colours for my cover black, white and then college colours.I think this colour scheme work well on my magazine because it i simple and makes the magazine stand out. For the text on both the cover and the contents pages I used 'Coolvetica' which I downloaded from the website 'datfont'. I made all the text white to stand out against the black background and so it is easy to read.
For both the cover I made sure the stories all had the same size text so that it would look neat and more proffesional.
I think that you can tell the cover and contents page are from the same magazine because they both follow the same theme of a black background and white text, both use the same font.
For the layout of my magazine I followed the a typical layout of a magazine, by making the the masthead was larger than the rest of the font, by having a medium close up photo on the front cover and also by featuring slug lines on the cover.
For my cover I took a variety of photos in different places to make sure I had the correct photo for for magazine. I choose the photo on my magazine because it was clear. I edited the photo in photoshop so that it would be cut out correctly. I think this photo fits well on my cover.
I really like the colour scheme used on the cover and contents page, as its simple, easy to read and just generally looks really appealing. I like the way the masthead is in two colours, as it makes it more eye catching and because it's pink and blue, it appeals to both genders of your target audience, which is a brilliant thing! Although there are more than three colours on the page, it still looks great and works really well :)
ReplyDeleteThe layout is very clear and the contrast in colour between the articles and the background colour really makes the articles stand out and easy to read.
My only criticism would be the cutting out of the image. It is a perfect medium close up and looks really effective on the front cover, but the outline of the image isn't smooth. With a little more practice of cutting images out of backgrounds I'm sure the outlines of any future cut out images will look great! :)
i really like this front cover and contents of the magazine, my first impressions draw me to the color scheme, it works well with the images and has a consistent outlook. The photo is appropriate to the magazine but the edges could be smoothed on photo shop, On a whole the magazine looked really good and would be something i would be interested to read.
ReplyDeleteFirst impressions of this magazine is that it works well together and looks like a magazine. I think the colour scheme and pictures work really well together. I think an area for improvement could be to add some photos onto the contents and maybe more stories.
ReplyDeleteI like the style of both pages, they are very simple and they work very well. All the text is very simple and easy to read from a distance. One thing that could be improved is the quality by just tidying up the edges of the image, but overall, very good.
ReplyDeleteyour college magazine is amazing it stands out and the colors are finely selected as well as the font text i would say your magazine is brilliant and i would very much love to read it because it look good well done Gaby!
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