Design Practice: December 2012

Development and final designs for the magazine publication.

The brief was how to get people to tell the truth. As our original theme was how to be confident we decided that it would be interesting to create awareness towards the media about the lies that they told the public that have inevitable knocked there confidence.

We decided that we would all decide on a colour scheme a font and a general idea of what was going on each page then go off on our own and create our designated page. Then we came together made tweaks and improvements to then put it together.

The page i was designated was the instant opening pages which was a double page spread that would inevitable be the opening to the truth of the lies and effects that the media has had.

Below are my development pages. When i designing i knew the colour combinations and the font we had decided to use then the rest was up to me.

When research (design context blog) we found a page within the magazine that was an advertisement for 'Matalan' where it was two cupboard doors that opened up with the detail inside. Deciding to do it this way allowed us to have 4 separate pages. We had decided to keep it minimalist as the inside would be full of detail and we didn't want it to reveal too much too soon. Originally i thought about doing a treasure chest sort of theme or to have a padlock as if you were 'unlocking the lies' but during development i experimented with a key hole or a key. We had all agreed that the content would just say 'Reveal' in a similar style to the 'Reveal' magazine logo.

Below are the different variations:

Above is the one we all chose when we came together however we tweaked it a little by adding in the 'the truth' in the bottom right corner but also by blurring out the key holes edges it created a more mysterious look and feel towards the page.

Below is the final magazine: