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process, more pics of mag

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Magazine project final

So here's my final post for 200. The dimentions are 8 inches tall and 6 inches wide. I wanted a smaller mag that seemed out of place in its orientation, sort of a under dog of magazines, but the reality is that the mag deserves to be three times larger but is more economical and environmentally friendly at its designed and produced size, and the size lends it a more precious quality as well.
I've finished the magazine, I ended up with a perfect bound Magazine including two fold out spreads and a feature article proceeding the foldouts. the theme originally was design, architecture, and funiture design. But in the end I stuck with the architecture as the theme.
I really worked alot on the mechanics of the magazine, I knew I wanted a non traditional style mag. I wanted a more crafted and thought out design mag. So I worked on including two fold out pages and the engeneering ended up consuming more energy than planned on and after many mock ups and exploring I came to my final set up, which works well.
The cover went through much change as well and ended up lookin really nice. in the end I used a pic of the grid like glass walls layered with color and the title and article names. the back is a low opacity of the front pic as well as a layer of crumpled paper for texture and some vector drawn elements. the inside cover mimmics the outer cover by reversing the design elements and playing with those as well as some vector drawing that goes along with the mag aesthetic.
The first article was worked out and is quite pleasing with consistent graphic elements, color theme and type treatments. all comes together to create an inviting article, one that appears worth while to read.

And ultimately this mag from the inside and out is intersting aesthetically pleasant. It was a fantastic, fun project exploring binding options and styles as well as page design in a more experimental fashion, I know and realize traditional magazine design is clearly difficult, where I wanted to look at tradition as well as experimental mag design and make some thing that encompassed dimensions of design that I like and appreciate and make a magazine that represents me.

Magazine project update...

So the concept for my magazine seems to have changed...
After a good discussion in class last week I decided to change directions with the mag project. I am now going to pursue a Mag about stuff I like. I love Eames furniture, so guess what there will be an article on that with a few spreads to go with it. Next I love architecture so another article will be on that. And lastly my neighbor a awesome abstract painter will grace the last article and spread, I hope to shoot the images for that, but thats the idea now.
I've gathered images and sketched out some layouts, but there also I've been inspired by not only Miss Trudo (remember the whole puking thing) but I also was lucky to hear Plasm talk about their mag and also got a few mags to look through and they have a different layout on every spread and thats my inspiration to have a highly creative and visually stimulating mag project.

Magazine project:

So I'd like to work a local magazine. I've been looking at Portland Monthly/Portland Spaces.
I've disected a few pages of both to begin to understand their layouts (examples in this post). The reader/audience are Portlanders obviously but a range or portlanders, from the wealthy to the lower end of that spectrum, to youger and older peoples. the goal will be to make a contemporary "portland" style magazine with class and an edge as well. Images will be very important to capture a reader with the visual as wel as the writing. Colors seem to be quite saturated, bright and fun. The sense of "Local" mean alot to Portlander also so I will need to keep a focus on that as well. I'm looking forward to this project, to work with 12-20 pages will be fun and book/mag making has been going on alot this term and my skills are starting to get there and I'm really satified with the actual making process as well as the "Designing" that usually takes up all of the time, I'm a hands on sort of guy and craft is probably one of my strengths.
~me

Here are some of the print spreads of the final book. Much was reworked the graphic elements were completely re-done to be consistent with variation and repetition thats both visually pleasing but also telling a narrative. guiding the reader was also thought out and the images and graphics lead the reader through the story and the time frame.

My Tuna book...

So this is what I have at this time, I changed the copy from my original concept into a few longer chunks throughout allowing a few spreads to be text free and thus communication visually only on those spreads. I have added the graphic elements (the grid like rectangles) to help guide the experience of this daily routine. Thoughts and comments will be appreciated.

please also realize that I've only uploaded everyother spread or so, and have not added color (and might not) and the spreads are actually one page offset due to the nature of the perfect binding construction needs.