magazine design

  • Creating a web teaser

    Creating a web teaser

    In order to practice web design, I created a web teaser that would lead a reader to my Mardi Gras 2012 magazine layout. I decided to go with a flamboyant font to match the Mardi Gras mood. Again, I used the best picture on the wire and played it big. The lede of the actual…

  • Learning magazine design

    A few weeks ago, my editing class dove into designing for magazines, as opposed to designing for newspapers. Our assignment involved creating two facing magazine pages. Our subject was Mardi Gras 2012. Using wire photos and an Associated Press recap of the event, we put together our pages. I decided to use the purple, yellow…

  • A magazine layout featuring music blogging

    For our last assignment, I wanted to combine the editing and design skills I have developed in the advanced editing class with some of the music blogging I have done. To do that, I chose to make an music piece I wrote about James McMurtry into a magazine layout. One of the other fans at…