Magazine pages

Magazine

From all the craziness of the portfolio I wished I had more time to work on the magazine. The cover was the hardest for me 'cause I couldn't get the image I wanted. So I used an image I already had, but realized that the shoes are kinda floating. I wanted to have someone with a big white wedding dress by a church or brick building losing their shoe. Anyways, my main feature layout is my favorite part because it was fun to make. I used grid lines to align the images and text. I also enjoyed making the images. I remember I was sick that week, but needed to take pictures that I went out to the rain in shorts and rain-boots. I had lots of fun! The table of contents was also difficult to achieve. The image 'pops'-out and is in your face which is what I wanted. The other articles were didn't come as easy as the main feature. The rainboots is my least favorite page because it doesn't match up with the others. The '8 way to keep you feet happy', or 'celebrities page' also have a grid-base layout that look good.

I learned a lot from this projects that has to deal with in-design and typography. I realized that I need to correct some of the little errors. But learned from it.

Grid Reading

For the reading... Where do I start?   So much information.  The history was really interesting to read 'because we touched-based on the topic in my history class and how manuscripts & art pieces show grids.  The reading mentioned history (side notes): Medieval grid (symbolic statues) the cross was an example of symbolic during that time, Renaissance & Cartesian grids (grid creates perspective/illusion) was the rise of mathematical perspective creating the illusion of spatial recession in three dimensions, the Modern Grid (appearance and symbolism) was used for practical purposes, for example, cubism or putting elements in the edge, and the Postmodern grid (show grids, composition, popular) has a more dynamic visual play to it by using the grid as a visual. There are many uses for grids and at one point there were hidden and used symbolic.  And others times the grid was used as visual.  The reading showed designers using examples of grids.  And layout concepts can be both grid and non-grid based designs.  

I got a lot out of the reading and trying to make a meaning as for myself:  lines indicate control or placement and can be used for placing pictorial composition, it has a symbolic purpose, and lines can be representational, it also create movement, and grid has been used for many years. There are many types of grids: column, hierarchical, modular, manuscripts, ...

Prj 2.

My visit to Powell (bookstore) took awhile.  I ended up looking at InStyle, Keepsakes, and Paper Craft.  The audience is targeted to middle-age women who are making memories or want to better themselves.  For my 'spread'  I would like it to make it more fashionable in a modern time.  I know we aren't suppose to think about pictures, but I can't help it and I know how difficult its going to be for fashionable images.  I do work at a retail job so that got me excited and I thought of great ideas.  The Keepsakes and Paper-Craft magazines had many images with directions/instruction  of creating templates, scrapbook pages, and craft ideas.  I did get good layouts and grid structures, but not really what I was looking for.  I did pick up InStyle and decided its what I really wanted to do.  I liked how the text and images worked together.  Type was really important compare to Keepsake magazines.  The Keepsake magazine was more friendly (the cover and images POP) to pick-up and look through quickly.  It also had more geometric shapes and out the box ideas.  The Paper-Craft used many 'finishings' but not much helpful to this project.  But the images were used well with the layout.  InStyle has an obvious audience target by using visuals, more interesting layouts, many grids and staying consisted with page after page.  Even thought each page is different by different images or type that grids didn't change and some of the layout were changed slightly.   

The educational part is like what Skyler would say "to learn from it."  Out of all the magazines I picked what I liked and caught myself thinking "what ifs."  I really haven't decided what I wanted to do with designing as a career and taking different classes help me decide what I want or would like to do.  I don't have question yet, but I'm really excited to get started.  The book was an exciting project so I know for fact that this one will be a good one too.  

I found my keys, grabbed my bag, and headed out

As I open the door  I glanced at the time and it read 11:00 am

with 2 miles, 10 minutes later, and yet no parking spot

As I drove around the block I saw the Max leave

11 minutes later and I'm seating with a stranger who smells funny

but 5 stop later I hop off to start running

As I look at my watch and the small hand lands in between 8 and 9.  

And it hit me that there is 1 minute left for me to catch the bus

Prj. 1: Transportation

Leave Home @ 11:00am to drive to Max Station (Car)

-2 Miles, 10 minutes with out traffic, 20ish with traffic

11:00am:  The Max Leaves Me

-I missed the max 'cause there was no parking available

-parked couple blocks away

11:21am: Take another Max

-listen to Mp3 player

-about five stops

11:42am: Goose Hollow/arrive in Portland

-run to catch the bus

11:43am: Running. Bus 58 lets me in

11:47am: Arrive at PSU Park Block

-walk to Neuberger hall

11:50am: Take the stairs to 4th floor

11:53am: Early for work.  

-Work starts at 12:00pm