I think the cover is the most important part of a magazine in terms of catching the attention of your target audience. If the cover is boring and dull, but the inside looks like one of those twenty examples, no one will probably even see the inside. All of the effort on the inside layouts would have gone to waste. A stand-out, well-designed cover is vital.
I love some of the images and layout designs used in these examples. For anyone in our class who took Visual Communication and still has the required text for that class, I think it will also come in handy as a guide when designing our covers and layouts. Now for sxc.hu to up its game on its images and then I wont be constantly tempted to buy from the more varied selection of images from iStock and we are all set!
Immediate flashback to Dr. Stover's Vis Comm class. She always showed us cool, trendy layouts like these. I especially enjoyed the Travel magazine layout and the IMPACT magazine layout. They were full and colorful but not cluttered. Using images as backgrounds is usually an amateur mistake, but the example at the bottom of the page with the bananas as the background? Totally pulled it off. The text on top is legible and a good contrast to the bananas.
After four years of working with magazine layout and indesign in high school, I couldn't agree more with what this article is saying - the design, especially the cover and interior designs, are the most important part of the magazine. The design, initially, is what pulls the reader in, the content is what keeps the reader. It's always nice to have new ideas influenced in articles like these that act as a design guide.
I love looking at designs like this, because it makes me wonder how the heck these people do some of these designs! I really enjoy doing this kind of graphic design myself, so it inspires me to better myself.
I will say, along with everyone else, that the front cover is the most important part of the design. If you don't catch a reader's attention, they won't pick it up. If you can pull the reader right away, they will continue browse through and read the material.
I personally liked the Travel magazine spreads because they were bold and exciting. The colors and shapes really worked well together, and I just thought it was fun to look at overall.
I think the cover is the most important part of a magazine in terms of catching the attention of your target audience. If the cover is boring and dull, but the inside looks like one of those twenty examples, no one will probably even see the inside. All of the effort on the inside layouts would have gone to waste. A stand-out, well-designed cover is vital.
ReplyDeleteI love some of the images and layout designs used in these examples. For anyone in our class who took Visual Communication and still has the required text for that class, I think it will also come in handy as a guide when designing our covers and layouts. Now for sxc.hu to up its game on its images and then I wont be constantly tempted to buy from the more varied selection of images from iStock and we are all set!
ReplyDeleteImmediate flashback to Dr. Stover's Vis Comm class. She always showed us cool, trendy layouts like these. I especially enjoyed the Travel magazine layout and the IMPACT magazine layout. They were full and colorful but not cluttered. Using images as backgrounds is usually an amateur mistake, but the example at the bottom of the page with the bananas as the background? Totally pulled it off. The text on top is legible and a good contrast to the bananas.
ReplyDeleteAfter four years of working with magazine layout and indesign in high school, I couldn't agree more with what this article is saying - the design, especially the cover and interior designs, are the most important part of the magazine. The design, initially, is what pulls the reader in, the content is what keeps the reader. It's always nice to have new ideas influenced in articles like these that act as a design guide.
ReplyDeleteI love looking at designs like this, because it makes me wonder how the heck these people do some of these designs! I really enjoy doing this kind of graphic design myself, so it inspires me to better myself.
ReplyDeleteI will say, along with everyone else, that the front cover is the most important part of the design. If you don't catch a reader's attention, they won't pick it up. If you can pull the reader right away, they will continue browse through and read the material.
I personally liked the Travel magazine spreads because they were bold and exciting. The colors and shapes really worked well together, and I just thought it was fun to look at overall.