Mount Wachusett Community College, in Gardner MA offers a 2-year program for Graphic and Interactive Designers (GID program). The final course in the GID program helps students assemble and present their best work produced in the program. This blog is produced by the GID Portfolio class under the direction of instructor Coni Porter.
Monday, February 5, 2018
Project 1 Magazine (Prototype)
Prototype is a car magazine focusing on one of a kind cars or cars that are not mass produced. Each issue would have articles on concept artist and companies recreating cars from movies or cartoons.
Josue - I see changes to the last article, but not to the other pages, so I may be repeating myself. Also - I’m wondering why I can only enlarge a few pages, and not all of them?? Hmmm… must work that out.
1. Cover: consider breaking the magazine title (PROTYTPE) into 2 lines stacked on top of each other - which will allow you to enlarge this element. It is the last thing we see on the page, and it should be the first. Change the color to be in total contrast to the background… it fades away currently.
2. Contents should resemble a well-designed list. This does broken up into page sections which is confusing to read. Consider using PROTYPE as the title, and even add the words CONTENTS underneath to help us know what we are looking at. Use a grid - there is no grid present on these 2 pages… something I realize because the small type just simply starts at the left and continues across to the right unless it wraps around the cartoon. Use a grid - so important!
3. Editorial article - bold and sweeping. Good! Now consider using the yellow on the subtitle at top of right page - to help unify the whole title. I think the quote at bottom might be a bit large - it’s almost as large as that subtitle. Yikes… visual hierarchy suffers! So - reduce.
Overall - I’m wondering why the serif font is the dominant font used here… almost everywhere. Sans serif makes so much more sense to me - because of its clean lines and more contemporary feel. I can’t see what body copy you are using (since that page will not enlarge) but I would suggest sans serif! AND, if you are ARE going to use a serif font… find one that looks contemporary, and not one based on an Oldstyle font.
Josue - I see changes to the last article, but not to the other pages, so I may be repeating myself. Also - I’m wondering why I can only enlarge a few pages, and not all of them?? Hmmm… must work that out.
ReplyDelete1. Cover: consider breaking the magazine title (PROTYTPE) into 2 lines stacked on top of each other - which will allow you to enlarge this element. It is the last thing we see on the page, and it should be the first. Change the color to be in total contrast to the background… it fades away currently.
2. Contents should resemble a well-designed list. This does broken up into page sections which is confusing to read. Consider using PROTYPE as the title, and even add the words CONTENTS underneath to help us know what we are looking at. Use a grid - there is no grid present on these 2 pages… something I realize because the small type just simply starts at the left and continues across to the right unless it wraps around the cartoon. Use a grid - so important!
3. Editorial article - bold and sweeping. Good! Now consider using the yellow on the subtitle at top of right page - to help unify the whole title. I think the quote at bottom might be a bit large - it’s almost as large as that subtitle. Yikes… visual hierarchy suffers! So - reduce.
Overall - I’m wondering why the serif font is the dominant font used here… almost everywhere. Sans serif makes so much more sense to me - because of its clean lines and more contemporary feel. I can’t see what body copy you are using (since that page will not enlarge) but I would suggest sans serif! AND, if you are ARE going to use a serif font… find one that looks contemporary, and not one based on an Oldstyle font.
More work to be done, but you are getting there!