Final Front Cover and Evaluation

Final Front Cover:

Evaluation:

First I had to think about what my Magazine was going to be about, what is was going to feature. After, I had to start designing my masthead. I designed a few of them and finally came to a conclusion to use the masthead ‘peek’ because it relates to my magazine the most. Also, the design matched the name. Finding a model for my cover came next. I chose Mayuko because her style matched very nicely with my magazine, bright and happy. Planning the layout, finding the right typography for my magazine. All in all, I think my time management was quite good and I was experimental enough to get what I wanted. However, overall, I think my idea only worked to a certain extent. It was successful because it turned out 80% of what I envisioned it to be. In addition, the masthead was really successful to me. It was prominent, name and design relates to my magazine very well, and most importantly I think the name is very memorable.  I liked the fact that my magazine was square, different from the rest. The photo didn’t turn out too well, a little disappointing. The sign ‘omg’ that I wanted to stand out, didn’t. I tried to add shadows above the sign but it just looked as if she had a moustache. Decreasing the opacity helped slightly only. I could have made the sign black or used better lighting. The fonts were a problem too. I tried experimenting with different fonts, but some was not noticeable from far. Some just faded into the black background. Could have tried to find more solid fonts.  I researched a lot of different magazines that caught my attention and inspired me. The main magazine that inspired me was the Catalogue Magazine Singapore, Issue 95. You can see the link by just looking at the photograph in the front cover as shown by the different layers of saturation that I used. In that case, I think I was being very experimental and it is successful to me.  I think I met all the targets. I would give myself a ‘B’ because I still could improve many aspects of my magazine.