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Graphic design

2017

15 hours

Graphic designer

Adobe Indesign

Adobe Photoshop

Pen and paper

During the second year of my bachelor, I followed a graphic design course. For this course, one of the assignments was to design an imaginary magazine about a certain theme of choice. Then, four covers had to be designed for four consecutive editions of that magazine. A requirement was that they should, just like real magazines, have a readable barcode, a proper title, and a number indicating the edition.

After an inspirational moment of drawing sketches on paper, I decided that my theme would be gadgets. Mainly aimed at men, and maybe a bit overpriced to be titled ‘gadgets’, so basically just cool stuff (much like that gadgets section in Top Gear magazine). And there was my title: Coolstuff magazine.

I took four topics that fitted in the theme: drones, cars, guns (let’s say it’s an American magazine…) and watches. Then I googled for some products in each topic that would make a nice hero image on the cover. I used Google Fonts and 1001fonts.com to search for appropriate fonts. I had this idea to make every edition have a different accent color, and to blend the number of the edition over the cover image in that color (although this is hard to see in the end). After a couple of iterations I ended up with the results below.

The next assignment was to design a two page layout for one of the editions of your magazine. For this it was allowed to use lorem-ipsum placeholder text, because it was pure for design and layout purposes. I chose to work out the concept cars edition with the featured Mercedes-Benz Maybach.