Mind Map and Mood Board for Magazine Cover

Mind Map:

Mood Board:

Questions:

1) Who is the target audience? Young women, late teens and early to late twenties
2) What is the name of your magazine? Why? Connotations? Maverick, which by definition means

a lone dissenter, as an intellectual, an artist, or a politician, who takes an independent stand apart from his or her associates. I chose this because the clothing magazine I am creating embodies the ideals of a liberated, free-spirited individual.

3) What will your masthead look like? Do you have any ideas for fonts? Very simple, but with dynamic character. I'm leaning towards Rhino. Possibly some subtle hints of neutral color.
4) What images will be on the cover and why? A print of some sort, some are exhibited in my mood board, and a collage of images embodying the central focus of the clothing the magazine possesses.
5) What will be your sell lines to entice your target audience? "Free your spirit" "Embrace your inner liberation" "The individualist insider"

Magazine Ad

 

As an introduction to photoshop, our professor directed us to capture a picture of ourselves, and place our photo into an ad from a magazine. We were required to adjust the contrast through using levels to match accordingly. 

Types of Images

As an introduction to InDesign, our professor asking us to recreate a template identical to this shown, except incorporate our own adjusted images. This exercise taught us the differences between bitmap, duotone, RGB, CMYK, and grayscale.

Final Seed Packets Matted

In completing this assignment, I endured many obstacles and difficulties. It was hard for me to balance simplicity and detail without completely over or under crowding the space. I think I stayed true to my initial idea of keeping the design clean and simple, and the background texture added a necessary element to the pieces.

Final Seed Packets