images

The first image is the image that I took with my digital camera that I am going to incorporate into my magazine cover. I tried to take an actual landscape picture but It didn't turn out the way that I expected it to so I am just going to scan a tree background and add this tree in next to the wooden bed. The wooden bed and the bottom tree picture are scanned images.

new masthead design

I played around with the mastheads that I created last week in class and I made a new masthead with a cement looking texture behind the words. I also created the small feather at the bottom of my mastheads in illustrator as the magazine's logo/symbol of some sort. I wanted to go with a feather because I thought that it wasn't as cliche as a leaf would have been for this magazine theme. I think that it works well with my idea. 

These are a few of the mastheads that I worked on in class. I am trying to incorporate some kind of wooden texture behind my typeface but the words seem to get lost in it. I like the bottom two textures the most and will continue trying to work with them to make the masthead more legible. I think that the bottom right is working the best so far. I also like the top masthead design. I think the orange texture and I like the fact that it is not a known or recognizable texture.

VERY rought sketch. Pretty much the same idea as the last.

This is my first magazine cover sketch using the wacom tablet. My pen was broken and kept trailing lines even when I was done drawing them so it ended up looking very scribbly. Im not set on the title yet, I just added something in there to fill the void.

magazine questions

1. Who will your target audience be?
- My target audience are young to middle aged adults (approx. 25+). I am pretty much aiming towards people who are environmentally conscious and have an interest in furnishing their homes accordingly. Urban homeowners?

2. What is the name of your magazine? Why? Connotations?
-sustainable home, natural home, sustainable living, green wood, reclaimed interior, etc. (I haven't thought about this in-depth, but something along those lines.)

3. What will your masthead look like? Do you have any ideas for fonts?
- I want my masthead to look rustic, vintage, or somewhat destroyed but organic. I have found a few typefaces that I included in my moodboard that reflect the theme that I am going for. I went to dafont.com and downloaded a few free fonts for this project. (Skia, 28 days later, natural log, bright young things, baskerville, mesquite, charlemagne)

4. What images will be on the cover and why?
- I want my cover to be of a piece of natural reclaimed wood furniture in an outdoor setting. I am thinking that I will take the background picture with my digital camera and then incorporate the furniture piece from a scanned image. I want this to be my cover because the magazine is based on reclaimed furniture so I would like it to come off as natural and environmentally conscious.

5. What will be your sell lines to entice your audience?
- Once again I haven't thought about this in-depth yet but they will be on the same lines as the title. "Rethink, relive", "DIY", "Innovative design", "love your home, love the earth" (you get the idea.)

magazine mood board

This is my moodboard for the magazine cover project. I haven't decided on whether I want my magazine to be a reclaimed sustainable furniture magazine or just a sustainable living magazine in general. I think that my mood board tends to lean toward the sustainable furniture theme.