CONCEPT AND IMAGERY

Develop Magazine Layout in the Style of your selected Designer

A Design/Art/Culture magazine of your choice is doing a feature article on your designer. As the art director you are to develop a layout that mimics the style of your designer. Think about typography, image treatment, textures, colors, etc. - all graphic elements that are used consistently that identify your designers work.

You will develop:

1. 1.Cover - using existing masthead of the magazine (you can choose to develop a new one)
   

2. 2.Initial Spread - Captivate your reader and establish content
   

3. 3.Secondary Spread - continue story and layout with majority of layout being body text
   

Full Color Printing

Full Bleed

List of some sample magazines:

Communication Arts

HOW

STEP

Print

Metropolis

CMYK

SCHEDULE:

10/8

PROJECT 3 KICKOFF

TEACH IN

5 Min Presentation and Paper Due

10/13

Thumbnails Due

Contact Sheet Due

10/15

Lecture - Digital Color and Printing vs Web

Lab

10/20

Lecture + Lab

10/22

FIRST ROUND COMP CRIT

DIGITAL PRESENTATION

Initial Spread and Cover

10/27

Revisions Due

Printed for Individual Review

10/29

Furlough Day

11/3

Lecture: Color - Digital vs Print

11/5

Final Lab

11/10

Final project DUE