Final Evaluation

The brief for this project asked us to produce a two page magazine page along with a front cover to a professional standard, to produce my two page layout and front cover, we first began by looking at other art/culture magazines and also a range of other genre magazines where, We analysed the layout of the front covers and two page spreads to generate initial ideas of how our magazine layout would look, I then began to think of magazine names, I wanted one associated with "looking" or "seeing" and I came up with "voir" which is french for "see", I got the idea for this name as the magazine is an art/culture magazine therefore its something people will need to look at and see other peoples art work, I then went to to sketch logo ideas which I went on to produce in photoshop, I also took pictures of the art work I would be using to feature in the magazine which I took using an app on my phone, I then edited them on photoshop to make them look more defined. 

To create my two page spread I used  Adobe Illustrator to experiment with a number of page layouts, before deciding on a final layout idea. 

I met my deadline by making sure I timed how I would spend my time experimenting and designing each part of my magazine layout to make sure I had a final idea composed before the deadline.

The part of the process which worked best I think was designing the logo as my final version of the logo was how I had pictured it to be, I met the brief as I was able to produce a two page spread along with a front cover including typical magazine things such as the bar code, issue number etc. 

Something I found did not go well was designing the logo and getting the right arrangements and placements of the letters also the kerning of the letters, if I had more time I would make large improvements to my final outcome as I wasn't very happy with it and I would have liked more time to experiment with different colour themes and fonts and possibly have produced a more aesthetically pleasing outcome, as if I had spent more time experimenting I would not have an outcome.

In this project I was able to improve existing skills such as using the tools on Photoshop to edit pictures and create my logo and also the tools on Illustrator which I used to create my two page layout.