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