Design Process

 

I created a mood board of all the things that are associated with the genre of music i chose - 'Rock'. I collected band photographs, magazine front covers and logos. By collecting all of these I was then able to look at repeating aspects throughout the mood board and consider these when creating my magazine.

I noticed that a lot of the bands within the genre were male-orientated and if there were any girls in the bands there would mainly just be one, the lead singer. The hair tends to be swaying from one side over to the other and the clothes are mainly dark with a hint of one or two colours. Black and white are two contrasting colours that are seen repeatedly throughout each picture.  

  

 This was my first design for my front cover, I decided to use one person as the central image, with puffs at the bottom of the page of inside articles and a flash on the left hand-side of the central image. I decided to call my magazine 'Kandy' but with a 'K' instead of a 'C' as I think that it makes it seem more suitable for the genre of Rock.

 

I decided to change some aspects of my magazine cover to see which design I liked the best. In this one I had a group as my central image instead of a singular person. I placed my masthead on a tilt in the left-hand corner as this would be different to how other music magazine genres have their masthead and Rock is all about being different. I decided to colour the puffs to remind myself that I wanted brightly coloured pictures.

After all my research into the genre and analysis of my designs I decided to use the idea of having a single person as my central image but with quite a few puffs of other people (from other bands) down the side, as my genre of magazines use a lot of images. I really like the ‘tilt’ effect of the masthead on one of my designs, however I didn’t want to use it for my masthead as there wouldn’t be room with my puffs down the left-hand side of the cover, so I decided to use the effect for my lead article text. I decided to use the idea of a flash but changed the shape and added a spray and drip effect to some of the corners to make it look more Rock related.