Description:
Here it is! It finally arrived, this was the most testing project Ive done so far. The brief was to make a 50 page magazine for a topic of our choice. This magazine was to include, front and back pages for 2 issues, editors notes, contents page, credits and 5-10 advertisements. The advertisements didn't have to be made by ourselves, as long as they had a watermark on them. Also a styleguide was made for the
magazine which you can see located here also.
I chose a snowboard magazine that was different from the rest. When you look at a lot of them, they like to focus on how epic and extreme the sport is with beautiful artistic photos. I don't know the sport like that, I know it as a fun holiday that includes the new countries, different experiences and living cool life in a ski town.
I wanted to try and portray that through the use of photo manipulation and my crazy illustrations. I used old skate and surf magazines to try and get the retro crazy feel. The hardest part of this was to still maintain a readable magazine.
The process used for this was using the combination of Photoshop, Illustration and inDesign for the first time. For the layout I used a 7 grid layout that helped me get these different but yet coherent articles, while allowing me to be dynamic.
With the articles I didn't write them and the sources have been acknowledged in the credits of the magazine and the images apart from my illustrations have been credited in the credits for my assignment.
