Development of Content Page

Initial Ideas for Content Page:

Rough Sketches for my content page 

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My Content Page Layout Process:

Content Page Inspiration:

I wanted to create a very simple and clean content page using shapes as my main guide. I chose to make my content page a double spread because I didn't want to cram all the information and photos together. I wanted the photos to seem just as important as the text. Also, unlike magazines such as cosmopolitan that has over 100 pages, my magazine only has around 60 pages. According to my target group, they are interested in design and content of the magazine. So my magazine focuses a lot on just indie-acoustic music genre and the layout design. 

All photos taken by me. 

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Evaluation: Content Page

I quite like my content page. I find that I made it quite successful, and it turned out the way that I wanted. I tried quite a lot of different fonts and finally found the right ones to use. I limited myself to 3 different fonts so it doesn't look too scattered and different. Instead, they look standardized. That was what i was aiming for too. However, I could have added the masthead, but it looked quite out of place. On the other hand, there was not a need for the masthead because the content page, to me, looked like it connected to the front cover and you could see the link- it was one magazine. I tried to keep the style similar to the front cover. The color scheme, typography. As shown, I added a yellow line to the spread of the cover. Inspired by Poster Magazine. I was thinking if I should put the photo of wojceich, the cover story, to the left. Switching with the other story- marlie nicks. Then I thought, there would be too much attention drawn to the cover story, over shadowing the other stories. So I kept wojceich's cover story photo to the right side, but made it spread across "two squares". This way, people would notice it, and at the same time they would also look at the other contents of the magazine. So I'm pretty sastisfied with it right now. 

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Final: Content Page