Last week I was in the first group of iPad app designers. The app is a weekly version of Vox that is transformed into a iPad application. I was in charge of the cover, TOC and afterlife feature package. Between creating the landscape and portrait versions of each of these I designed a total of 32 pages in 2 days. While we hit a few bumps in the process due to being the first group and some of the templates being wrong, it was a great experience. I really enjoyed the process and that you have a bit more freedom with designing. I have included my features in both landscape and portrait versions on here.
PORTRAIT:
LANDSCAPE
Overall I am pleased with the feature. It was nice because I was able to use the print version as a building block, for example I kept the splash page from print, but I was able to add my own touches. I used dotted lines with new story titles rather than the parenthesis that they used in print. I wish I had done a little bit more with the artwork. On a few pages all I had to use was a pull quote which wasn't ideal for my design. I wish I had time to create an illustration or find more photos.
I am pleased with my sidebars, however. I really like how the clouds turned out behind the text.
While I was extremely frustrated while working on the iPad, I really like the final product. I'm really excited to do my second issue in about two weeks.
Oh wow. I have to say, I really love the way you treated both the sidebars and pullquotes. You put some really new life into a feature I thought was dead (hardy har har - no puns intended. really.). But seriously. The clouds on the sidebars are GORGEOUS - we had such a tough time figuring out what to do with them in print. Oh man. Did we ever. And the dotted rules are also a really great touch. Great work!!!!!
ReplyDeleteWe are all really thankful that you and Whitney went first and paved the way for the rest of us. These look really great. Now that I have done the iPad, I think the most challenging part is having enough visual elements to make the page more than just text on a glowy screen. I agree with Lee Ann that I like the way you treated the sidebars, especially with the clouds - although I do wonder about the decision to go with clouds because I feel like they insinuate a state of heaven that I know not everyone agrees with. However that was not your decision at all. You did a great job. That for posting all of these.
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