Salad

So, we tossed the other salad aside and started a fresh layout. It was bad. According to Rusty, I had a few issues. So I think I resolved them with this one, but not sure yet. We shall find out in our crit this morning.
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Control the Full

This article basically sucked! As you can see from the layout it was very text heavy, as opposed to the last one. It is a four color job, but I couldn't figure out a color scheme. Check back and I will hopefully have an updated one over the weekend. The most difficult thing about this was finding an image that suited the material. Thanks to a stock photo purchase, I was able to find a cute little dude holding utensils from the kitchen! I felt it was very fitting. As far as the text, that was an issue yet again. When will I ever learn how to fit text correctly. Or will I?

How Safe-And It's Not Even About Sex

This new layout deals with food safety. This article was actually very easy to come up with a layout for, but was difficult to place the text. This layout only dealt with a minimal amount of text so that was the difficult portion to it all. I really had fun with this one, minus the text. I just let all I knew about magazines and their formats, and let it flow onto the page. Here is the final product!

Final Spread!

This was a pain in the butt! Nothing went right! I really struggled with this layout. Ideas kept coming to mind, but the execution in the end was well, you will see from the pictures. Enjoy!

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Spread Me Out Like a Magazine! Vol. 1

This assignment consisted of taking text from a pre-existing magazine article and putting it with our own layout and artwork/photography. The biggest challenge was fitting the amount of text that was provided in the article onto two 8.5X11" sheets of paper. In general, I did a watercolor illustration of a student at a desk looking frustrated and distraught. I then took some distressed text that looked like it fit the theme, and used that as a decorative font at the top to draw in the viewers attention. We shall see what the outcome of the next spread is soon! Until then,
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Native American History Month Stage 3-3

So, we have officially done three different rough drafts for the Native American History Month project. I didn't put the last one up, because it definitely was not even worthy. The work done on this was a marker composition. It is getting posted late because I have been ill today! I feel like I have worked some kinks out as far as layout goes. I managed to actually include some text blocking on this one as well. So we shall see! Look for the magazine layouts to come!

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Native American or American't

So this is our fourth project that is based on Native American History Month. Stage 1 was creating a simple layout and comping it up for our "Art Director!" This piece is 13X19 and I started off with a 13X19 marker comp to get a feel for the space that we would be utilizing during this project. As you can see in the file, I have gone with a theme of spirit animals. The Native American's beliefs included spirit animals, and so I went along with this theme. Also, I did some artwork on the title that would be traditional for that of the Native Americans. So what do you think? Native American or American't?

Until next time:

NB