Textures

These are the two textures that I used for the Background of my designs.

(used in cover, tabek of contents, and Promo News)

(Used in the double page spread)

Naviation

 This is the Navigation bar for my interactive magazine. When you roll your mouse over the n, this bar comes down from the top.

In design final designs

This is the final design for the cover of my magazine:

The only part of this design that is interactive is the navigation bar on the top right of the page. 

Here is the design for the table of contents. The first image of is before any of the interaction. When you roll your mouse over the flags on the left with the page numbers on them, they fly in and the names of the articles fade into the yellow stripes underneath. 

This is the design that i came up with for the Promo News page in my magazine. There is interactivity on this page when you roll your mouse of the images on the left. If you hold your mouse on the image, The title of the promo news article (on the right) fades out and the short article fades in. It reverses when you roll off of the image. 



This is final design that I did for the 2 page spread. I used the green and orange colors to represent a baseball field. The circles on the sides are all buttons. When you roll over them with your mouse, they replace the "No Purchase Nesessary To Enter Or win article with another article. The names of the articles are placed on each circle.

Sketches

I started sketching out some ideas for the different pages of the and these are some that I came up with:

These are some of the images that I came up with while brainstorming for the cover, table of contents, and the promo news part of my magazine.

 These are some of the ideas that I came up with for the two page spread part of my magazine.

Interactive magazine

For our latest assignment, we had to make another magazine design for the 25-35 age group. It was called Promo Magazine. We needed to pick a topic for a two page spread, make a cover page, a table of contents, and design a "Promo News" section. The subject of this magazine is pop culture, so we had to base our magazine off of that. I decided to make the topic of my double page spread about a Fantasy Baseball contest called Beat The streak. The contest was to pick 1 or players in the mlb to get a hit. If you get a streak of 57 correct picks, you win 5.6 million dollars.

Cover and Table of Contents

For my magazine cover and table of contents, I decided I wanted to use different lines and shapes so that it would relate to the 2 page spread and impact spread. I also wanted it to have that architectural feel to it. 

Here are some sketches that I drew up:

I took the designing into illustrator and started playing with it. This is what I came up with for the cover:

Next I played with a very similar idea for the table of contents:

I later decided to play with it even more and change up the background. This is the final product of my table of contents:

2 page spread

Now that I finished the impact spread, I had to come up with an idea for the 2 page spread that had similar elements. After discussing with a few of my peers, I decided that I was going use my image of Trinity Church, and label different architectural elements of it. Here is the layout that I came up with. I put the article about the church to left side of the design.

Impact spread

I started playing with different ideas on photoshop for my impact spread and my 2 page spread and these are a couple of the ideas that I came up with.

This was originally suppose to be my impact spread:

As I played with the design, I tried some other ideas. Here is another design I came up with: (Obviously not the final design)

Here is what I started to come up with for the layout of my 2 page spread:

I found the text for this article on a boston architecture website. Interesting enough, many of the students in my class thought that this would look better as the impact spread rather than the 2 page spread.

I finally decided to change things up a bit and use a layout very similar to this as my impact spread. Here is what I came up with:

Magazine Project

For our most current project in this class. We were to make a two page spread for an architectural magazine, make an impact spread, make a cover, and a table of contents. I decided to use an image from Boston Massachusetts and do my double page spread on the Trinity Church.

This is the image that I chose:

I started doing some sketches of different ideas of the 2 page impact spread and  article spread

In context and Amazon Photo

This is what my book cover would look like in a book store:

This is what my book cover would look like on the Amazon website:

final Book Cover design

This is the final design of the Front, spine, and back cover for the book cover project:

Design on Computer

My Book cover design went though quite a few stages to develop in to its the final product. Here a a few images throughout the developing stage.

This is the archival paper that I crumbled up in order to make the background texture for my book cover:

 
I took a few pictures of my girlfriend Sam holding a locket that  my mom gave me for my book cover:

This is the image of Dostoevsky that I photoshoped into the lock for my book cover:

These are the first few drafts of m y book cover design:

After the critique,  I decided to take the images of the hand holding the locket out and just having the locket laying on the page.

Thia is a snapshot the of the front, spine, and back cover.

Sketch of Book Cover

Here is my sketch for my book cover design. My idea was to use images and have a hand coming in from the right of the cover holding a chain with a locket attached to the end of it. Inside the locket would be a picture of the author that the girl in the short story is obsessed with. In the background are ripped pages from a book. These are to represent books written by the author.

Brain Storming

Here are some brainstorming sketches for our book cover designs that I did.

Summaries of short stories

Memoirs of a Muse:
This short story was about a young girl who after seeing a picture of an author named Dostoyevsky, fell in love with him. When her grandmother became ill, she learned more about this author and his wife, Anna. She often fantasized about being with Dostoyevsky. She was assigned a research project and focused on Dostoyevsky’s life married to Anna. After learning about his wife, she became very angry and jealous towards her. She was angered at the thought that Anna was his muse. She was excited to later learn that Dostoyevsky’s book, The Gambler, was inspired by another woman, who she approved of.

Why Don’t You Dance?
In this short story, a man who may or may not  have lost  a women, decided  to put all of his furniture and items from inside his house out into his front yard. A passing boy and girl noticed, and thought that it may be a yard sale and decided to take a look around. Minutes later, the man who owned all of the stuff returned from a trip to the store and the boy and girl made a few offers on the man’s things. The man offered them a drink and put a record on the record player. He told the boy and girl do dance and this continued for hours. Afterwards, the girl was trying to explain what had happened in that mans yard but had a difficult time explaining.

Birthmark
This short story is about a girl who had a large, red birthmark on her face that she wanted removed. When she finally got it removed, she was upset and felt she lost a part of her. She got married to a man and felt anger towards him because she believed that if she still had that birthmark, her husband would not have married her. Things with her relationship over the years became rough, until one day she spilled jam in her kitchen, causing her birthmark to return. She was very upset about this, but her husband was thrilled and felt that this gave them the opportunity to have a better relationship and have children.

Paul Rand Presentation

I have been doing lots of research about graphic designer, Paul Rand, and here are some of the notes that I have found in my research.

- Paul Rand is best known for his corporate logo designs, especially IBM, ABC, UPS.
- He went to a few different schools but most of his design knowledge was self-taught.
- He designed covers for Direction Magazine for free, in exchange for complete freedom is designing. (Artistic Freedom) This was an important step in the development for the "Paul Rand" look. One of the covers had barbed wire. It was a wire torn gift and crucifix. This showed his freedom and also allowed him to experiment with themes not typically found in graphic design.
- He designed the third UPS logo adding the bowtie.
- In 2003, it changed for the first time in 42 years. He got rid of the box and string. The string refrained UPS's abilities to represent in various supply chain services.
- He designed the 8 bar IBM logo in 1972. It had horizontal stripes representing speed and dynamism (from solid letters) The block letters were to establish authority without alienating its audience. The Big represented the big company and the blue representing the color of the first logo. It represented an equal sign.
- In 1965, he designed the ABC logo. It was very simple, unique, and memorable. (reduced information)
- He also created the Westinghouse logo and lightbulb boxes.
- In 1966, he designed the Ford logo. They asked him to design a logo but decided not to use his design.
- NeXt: He worked with Steve Jobd. Steve Jobs resigned from Apple in 1985 to start his own company for higher education computers. Steve Jobs hired Rand for the logo and offered $100,000 to develop a 100 page brochure.
- From the research done so far, I would say Steve Rand's mission statement: He looked at his influences and past designers strongly and got the idea of taking something ordinary and make it more creative in his designs.

I have each of the images I am using selected already, just not placed on the powerpoint yet.

This links I used to find my research are:
http://www.logoblog.org/ibm-logo.php
http://www.designishistory.com/1960/paul-rand/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Rand
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeXT