My College Magazine

My college magazine

My IdeasTitle

I thought of names link to students, college, and university. I shorted university, to uni, then I thought of Uni-verse, which sounds like universe and is a metaphor for the size of life at university.

Possible Fonts from dafont.com, for the masthead:

Sui generis

Old sans

black

FontsSui generis Old

Sans

Black

What's going to be inside

• Future plans

• Cheap and easy recipes

• Free cloths voucher

• Win football tickets

Pictures

This is the photo for my main article in the magazine, it’s about possible future prospects. I think it looks suitable for the subject, of students looking to the future.

What I didI used my man image as the background, and put on my main shapes for the cover line boxes.

I made my masthead shape as Photoshop didn’t have one I want. I made it by using the rectangle tool, and the distorted and skew tool, and cut it out using the magnetic lasso tool.

I put all my cover lines and mast head on. I decided to use sui generis for my title.

Because everything looks flat, I added stroke to some of the cover line boxes and some of the lines, to make them stand out.

I Bevel and Emboss the mast head to make it look more 3D.

I also used Drop shadow, and outer glow to make it look 3D as well, I kept the spread small, and change the size, so it will spread out a small bit, so there is a faint shadow or faint outline of white.

Contents page

I used the same techniques using Bevel and emboss, stroke, outer glow, and drop shadow.

I also tried to use the same colours, to keep the style from the front cover.

I thought it look plain and empty with no photos, so I used some that I took. I used stroke and outer glow to make them stick out.

One of the photos is link to an article, and another is to advertise a different page.

I also made the font size smaller, as it would have been too big for a A4 size.

I used bright colours to try to catch the eye, as well as having the front cover on the left. I think students who are new to university, or want few tips to adjusting to university life as well as having fun would read this magazine, as a guide. It doesn’t look serious with the bright colours and the cover lines.

I tried to use colours that are used in the photo. In the front cover, the model is wearing blues and greens, so I used those colours, but I also used yellow to make the masthead stand out against the rest of the magazine cover.

I have learnt to use shadow, outer glow, bevel and emboss, which makes my magazine look less flat, and stand out more.

I kept to my original sketches, but I think I should of experimented more with possible ideas, but I am happy with what I have accomplished.