This past week my capstone had another competition where we each created a cover, splash page and spread for the Spring Preview issue of Vox. Overall, I think my work had some ups and downs.
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.
