My main goal that I had going into this project was to make something that I think looks good and is successful in sharing the stories/information and more importantly I wanted to enjoy the process of making it. I had a lot of fun working on this project. There were definitely parts of it that frustrated me. I have also learned that I am fairly indecisive because I went through about 6 different layout ideas for the main story and had to sleep on a lot of different ideas for how I wanted to approach the ASF. I think that I did a good job of meeting both of my goals for this project. Creating and trying out the different layout ideas that I had was a lot of fun and I think by allowing myself to try (and fail) so many times helped make a good final product.
The first thing that I did was pick out the fonts that I would use for the cover and rest of the magazine. I looked on Pinterest at other magazines and their font and layout choices to inform my decisions and figure out what works and what doesn’t. After I made the cover I used that to guide the typography throughout the rest of the magazine. When it came to adding color I decided to take colors from the main images I use. I did this because I think it helps in incorporating the images and the text together to create a harmonious look between the text and images.
My creative process consisted a lot of making a design and then putting down my laptop/pencil and thinking about it after thinking it through. I would come back and make changes or try another idea that I may have come up with. Something that was something that took a bit to get used to was the centerfold. I’ve done a lot of yearbook design so being able to have elements so close to the centerfold was very new to me and a mental barrier that took me a while to overcome. At first I struggled to calibrate to the scaling of things on the page I would make something, but then upon looking back it would be too big or small on the page. I think in the future I want to try and incorporate more white space and different ways of placing images into the design.