Myself and nine of my peers formed the design team for this issue of Benzanoe Magazine, which was headed by one of our course tutors who runs the magazine. Based on the theme of ‘The Future Is Only Present Hope’ we chose to split the magazine into four sections, with the fourth the actual magazine and the initial three chronicling the production and design of it. The issue was designed and produced by us over a three day period.
The first section called ‘Define’ was the one which I had the most input on. It contained content such as; the names of the design team and contributors, a history of the magazine and a list of things we as a team wanted to get out of the production experience. We chose to lay it out simple with a lot of space around the text to provide the sort of clarity the content needed.
The first section called ‘Define’ was the one which I had the most input on. It contained content such as; the names of the design team and contributors, a history of the magazine and a list of things we as a team wanted to get out of the production experience. We chose to lay it out simple with a lot of space around the text to provide the sort of clarity the content needed.
The ‘Discover’ section contained full bleed images of all of the things we looked at for research, along with comments on them written on post it notes. ‘Develop’ is the whole stage of idea generation and design distilled in a sort of ‘cut and paste’ style which I feel reflects really well the sketchy sort of work that is going on during this period. The final ‘Delivery’ section is laid out in the sort of way you would expect from a magazine and is in full colour, whilst the initial three sections are in black and white.
Video courtesy of Dion Star, the tutor we worked on this project with.
