In this post I am going to include the assets I created for my magazine. I will compare and contrast them to the assets used in other magazines of the same genre.
I will compare my initial, RAW photos to the edited version
Mastheads -
To create my masthead, I first looked online at the most popular motoring magazines and found the most common themes of masthead and the certain types of design that these mastheads have used.
Car Magazine
I first looked at Car magazine's masthead. This masthead uses a serif font which is extremely bold. This masthead is a very good example as it stands out amongst an otherwise cluttered page. This ensures that the name of the magazine would not be missed on a vibrant front cover, which helps the magazine's overall success. However, I think the only reason this masthead could be so simple is that the name of the magazine is exactly what it entails, therefore it would be obvious to the reader.
Top Gear Magazine
I next looked at Top Gear's Magazine. This example is less minimal, and uses a more sporty, and car themed font. This logo also has a graphic which also adds to the motorist theme. In my opinion, even though this logo is not as impactful, I feel that this logo is a better representation of the type of magazine that it is. For my magazine logo I will use the font style from Car Magazine's logo, as well as the graphical motor style of Top Gear's Magazine.
My Final Magazine Masthead (Cruise Control)
This is my final version of the Cruise Control Magazine masthead. I decided to use a flat white colour, and a bold text (
Sherman Font from Dafont.com). I also created a graphic to use alongside my masthead text. This is to, like Top Gear, ensure that the theme of my magazine is very obvious even if when on the shelves, only the masthead is visible. I used Adobe Illustrator to create this logo, and used tools such as the scissor tool and shape tool to create the design.
RAW photos and the edited versions that I used:
This photo is for my front cover. This means that I needed to make the photo more vibrant, as well as maintaining realism to make the magazine aesthetically pleasing. The changes to this photo were very subtle, I increased exposure, contrast and vibrance, and decreased highlights to get my final results.
For this photo I used the same edits as the last one and copied them over. This ensured that there was no obvious differences between edits in my magazine that would affect the presentation.
Comparison -
This is the contents page from one of Top Gear's magazines. The layout of the page is very different to how mine is laid out, as it follows a different design set. Because they have 100 pages of magazine, they also have a lot more areas of content to cover both in the magazine and the contents page. This means that they can use the page for many different sections of content, whereas I only had one to use.
However, similarly, they use images to show what the concept of the magazine about. All the images used are related to cars which stays on theme with the premise of the magazine, much like mine does.
This is my contents page. It looks very different to the top gear one, as I have less pages and therefore much less to cover. One thing that I don't have however is multiple images. I felt using one image rather than multiple was in keeping with the minimalistic style of the magazine, so I kept the use of extra photos to a minimum.
Creation of the PNG Photos -
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