Product Style Profile

NEA - Sketching and product profile

Learning Objectives:

• K: the importance of sketches and planning in the decision making process of creating a magazine.
• U: how to use sketches to influence your stylistic decisions.
• BAT: undertake a creative task in which you start the decision making process in terms of style of your magazine.

In this post i am going to be getting comments on sketches i have created for my product in terms of framing, typography and layout. I will do 3 sketches for each page i will need to produced in the finished product.

Cover One:

Feedback: After asking a total of 5 people i have became aware to the fact that my framing should be more central in order to display clothing (hence fashion magazine) as well as needing a change in regards to typography as it has been agreed that it is perhaps hard to read due to the spacing in coordination to the layout.

Cover 2:

Feedback: After once again asking the five people for their opinions on my second cover draft on which i removed the tag lines; this was not appreciated as they said it looked too bare. Moreover, it is evident that there was too much bare space in this second draft that could've been put to better use.

Cover 3 (Final):

Final cover profile - I have ended up with this front cover which links into the theme of exploration whilst not being too bare, tag lines are easier to read and overall more structured.

Index Page:

My index page will be a double spread featuring a photo of one of my male models covering an entire A4 page along with a caption proclaiming location and identity. Despite this being my first draft, after getting the opinion of others i have drawn the conclusion that it does not require improvement as text is not overbearing and design is floral fitting my homosexual brand.

Website home page:

Pencil Sketch will match up to digital draft.

Due to my exploration theme, i want my website to speak through its pictures hence why text is minimal and to the point. The colour scheme matches my logo with colours of orange and black showing a juxtaposition between day and night with orange being sunshine and black being the night sky, a key aspect in exploration is the sky and its weather as it can cast moods over particular days and events.