ART: Magazine Layout Critique

For the past two weeks or so, Riccardo, Sara and I have been working towards the completion of a magazine layout. These layouts were to be inspired by our thumbnail sketches. For this task we used Adobe Illustrator on the iMac (which we've learned is very complex and difficult to navigate). 

Discussing our thumbnail sketches, I only had a vague idea of what it was going to look like, but I soon formulated an idea in my head on what it was going to look like. I wanted to utilise focal points, leading lines, and use font, texture, and colours purposefully. In the end, when we got to actually digitally creating a layout, we used Riccardo's thumbnail sketches which we thought would be more simple to utilise all while making it look elegant and minimalistic.

This is our progress as of Thursday. We have not specified what we are going to write exactly about, but we have found some great pictures that we think really show off Voice With Soul's great spirit and passion for singing. Notice me in some of the photos!

Does your design reflect your thumbnail sketches so far?
Yes: we stuck to the original idea of Riccardo's thumbnail sketch very well.

Have you figured out the screen shotting process?
After getting help, yeah, we did. Command+Shift+4 on an iMac. 

Have you played with layering of your visuals?
Not as of yet, but this is something I really want to utilise, and I've had the idea of including our previous artwork (print making, lino cutting) in the artwork as I know it will be a great opportunity to include colour and a focal point. 

Do you know what your focal point is?
At this point, no, we don't: the images are all sort of the same size and rather large so that is something we need to work on. We sort of have a grid thing going on which is nice, but we still need to work on our focal point. 

Does your design reflect the feeling of your topic?
When I think of Voices with Soul I think bright, colourful and fun colours. We haven't really used colours in our work yet.

Our next steps are to develop more ideas and thumbnail sketches and possibly digitally create them in the near future. The end of Term 2 is nearing quickly so we need to work hard to complete this.