November

Throughout November I have been doing a number of different things, I started off by drawing some design drafts for my front cover. I used these four designs, the last of which i used on my practice exercise. At the moment i haven't decided which design I'm going to use but most likely to use the first design as it is simple and can use a big imagine for the centre.

I then went on to designing some simple and different grid systems that I could use for the pages inside my magazine. Im only using the grid system for my inside pages because the front cover does not need one because a front cover has so many conventions of it's own. I then went on to choosing one of the four of the grid systems which was a three column grid system, I chose this because it looked for structured than a two column grid system and if I wanted to split different articles up I have the advantage of splitting them up into three instead of two or one. Here are some pictures of my grid systems, the bottom one being my final chosen systems for my contents page and my double page spread.

I then went on to choosing a magazine name, I designed a brain storm by thinking of different ideas related to my magazine and the name I finally decided on was 'RISE' which stands for 'Rock, Indie, Soul, Electro'. Below is the brain storm that I designed.

Finally after choosing the name of my magazine I have been doing some designs for it, below are my first few draft designs that i came up with.

After designing these I went on too more designs using an internet programme named...