Drafts for MINE magazine

This was my ruff design for my front cover. At first I wanted a square magazine to go against the ‘norms’ of magazines and I also liked the idea of a black background so it stood out against all the other magazines. By having a black background I also liked the way my masthead almost glowed. Once I took my pictures I tried to put them with my design, but once I tried to fit the images in they didn’t really look right and I also had to change my background which meant that my masthead didn’t give the same sort of effect that it gave on the black. I kept playing around with the all the elements and finally decided that the design I had chosen wasn’t going to work with the images so I threw away my original design and decided to try and make my cover around my images which lead to my finished design which is nothing like my original design.

I wanted to make my contents page to work with my front cover so I tried lots of different ideas; This is my chosen design that I changed and worked with go with my front cover but once I changed the sixe and colours I decided tat I didn’t need the images and it looked much more striking with one image covering the whole background.My other ideas were to pick up on the colours from the masthead and use a picture to work with them the first thing that came to mind was a CD with uses all the colours that I had incorporated into my design but I also experimented with an image of a vinal. With the image of the CD I tried to show the articles around the edge of the image, it didn’t quite fit right so I tried on the vinal to fit the articles around the inside of the shape as if they were printed onto it, this didn’t work as well as I would have liked but I am very happy with my final design.

I only do one possible layout for my double page spread but I also went completely against this design as once I had all my images I felt like they didn’t quite fit in with the square page that I wanted so rather than edit and re-shape my images I decided that my magazine would work better in A4 landscape which still goes against the ‘norms of magazines but also works with my images which is more important.