LIB Magazine
Branding, Art Direction, UX/UI, Web Design
Long Island Based Magazine is an innovative online-based publication. From sports to restaurants, from art to hometown celebrities, LIB Magazine highlights all that Long Island has to offer as well as events and local attractions to its residents. LIB Magazine is about bringing the world to Long Island and Long Island to the world.
The owner of LIB Magazine came to us at PixelSprite with a vision of a web based magazine. The challenge was to make the website feel more like an actual magazine, yet keep the site web friendly.
I was tasked to first create a brand for the new magazine that looked sleak, clean, and cool. Then I worked closely with the the team's lead developer in order to come up with the best UX/UI for the project. We started off by researching exactly what could be done and how other online magazines were treating their content. Afterwards we started planning the layouts for every section and the user-journey. Once we established everything, the designs were created and developed.
Later during the project the owner asked if there was a way to implement full blown ads and what they could possibly look like. This is one of my concepts on how the ads could potentially look. Although we recommended that it was best to postpone placing ads till the magazine bacame more popular.
