My favorite part of my package was my cover. I decided to go with a spring cleaning theme, focusing on a garage sale type scene for my cover. I went with a very cartoonish feel, doing everything as illustrations. This is how my cover turned out:
I really enjoyed making the stories into things for sale, like the Eli Young Band guitar and Super Bowl football. It was a really fun cover to get to work on.
Unfortunately, I was not as pleased with my splash pages or spread. I ended up doing two splash pages, both using only typography, for this competition. In all honesty, I wasn't very happy with either, and I wish I had found a better way to do them. I was worried it would turn out too similar to the cover, so I chose to play solely with typography. I feel like it ended up giving off a retro vibe rather than a spring feel, though. Here are my two splash pages:
When it came to my spread, I wanted to keep the same color scheme as the splash page(s). I decided that, should I end up creating the issue, I wanted to break up the events by month. I think it's easier so that people could just go to the month they wanted information on and find it that way. I was very intent on making this an audience-friendly spread. Overall, I think the spread is alright. If I had found a more creative way to create my splash page I think I could have done a bit of a better job with the spread, but for what I was working with I feel I made the most of it. Here is how the spread came out:
Next week I will be starting to work on my cover options with my cover group. I will also be starting to work on my publish prototype, although we are still waiting to hear which magazines we will be working with. Finally, next weekend (the 11th) I will be working on my first department weekend for Vox. I'm really excited to get more work with the magazine.
I applaud you for your cover theme. I tried to do something with spring cleaning and couldn't think of a way to execute it! You did a good job with working with Illustrator. And I especially like your "Eli Young Band" part of the guitar. Good job!
ReplyDeleteLove, love, LOVE your illustrations on the cover for Spring Preview. I'm not that acquainted with the program yet, so I really appreciated seeing others use it this past week. The "Eli Young Band" as the guitar neck is so clever. Great job!
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