Evaluation

My idea

My idea was to design a magazine cover titled mundane and sublime . The magazine will feature some of my work and have bits of text to incise the audience. The general theme was Sublime and Mundane and Typography. I wanted to make sure that the title wasn't just a boring monotone font I downloaded from the internet, because I was doing typography I wanted to take at least a beginners attempt at creating a font of my own or at least customise a basic one. So i got a basic blocky font online and made "slits", for lack of a better word, and divided each letter into chunks, then colouring them using a similar colour scheme to one Brody used. I made this my title for the magazine, it was important for me that the title looked good because otherwise I would just consider that a missed opportunity.

Bad Points:

I Think over all i like my final piece but, it does lack one central eye catching image for m magazine, If I could redo the front cover I would have gotten a photo of someone smiling in the rain without an umbrella the reason for this is that The symbolism would be great for linking sublime and mundane. Rain is normally considered something boring or a bit of a nuisance, a pretty regular occurrence. But when something really amazing happens to you and you are just to over joyed to let anything get to you that is incredibly sublime and the rain being the mundane.

If I had more time I would've liked to actually to make some pages for this magazine, or at least a few sample pages. Maybe feature some of my older work or maybe some of the photos from france, I already have a near compete diary entry from the experience

Something I did not consider in the planning stage was that their is a target audience, I failed to identify who would actually buy this magazine. Passively I've made this for middle aged people who are interested in art  but if I was thinking about that at the time i would have made the body text be a bit more relevant to the target audience. I think i got tunnel vision with my topics. In future i will try to consider factors outside of the art world.

Good points:

Ive already said that I personally think my final piece is a success. I think it lends it success to the colour scheme i used, the title is colourful and could be its own thing and everything below the header has a warm feel to it all because of the tone of reds i was using

Another point I think makes my magazine look good is, it has a level of professionalism, it isn't dumbed down to the general public by that I mean their isn't bright colours, massive buzz words or celebrities taking up the entire cover. Its very clean cut, simple and atheistically pleasing, to me at least.

What didn't work? and what I changed

In the beginning i was going to make an entire magazine but due to time constraints I was unable to do the full thing. If I had maybe a week to work on this project I would've made a separate page for each artist and theme used to create the front cover.

When looking at the "blue planet" for inspiration they used a skyline for one of their backgrounds and I thought at east the concept was good but when i tried something similar with space I found it was just to dull and boring, even though that would link with mundane and sublime I thought it just took to much away from the cover so instead I made a more suitable background that linked with my personal topic of Typography with a wall of test and simple layer masking, although later I also changed that so it was clearer, I am much happier with version two because its simple and I personally think it looks much better