Magazine Layout Tutorial

 In this post, I will demonstrate some basic design skills that I learned in class

1. I started by sketching. I didn't like this because it was very messy and unorganized as we were given very little time for it,but I discovered the drawings don't need to be detailed and felt a little better about it

2. Then my teacher told me to experiment with some default layouts on Google Draw, and gave us 10 minutes to come up with multiple layouts. In my opinion, they look very bad. 

Below is the template given by my teacher

Below is my magazine layout experimentation

3. Next, my teacher taught the class about:

• Borders
• Borders are placed on magazines as a boundary/guide line in which we should follow, where texts aren't supposed to go over it. It makes the layout look more organized. 
• Hierarchy of type
• Hierarchy of type refers to the classification and organization of the typographies on a magazine, basing it off the way people read. This hierarchy can vary depending on the context but most of the time, it categorizes it based on the characteristics and importance. For example, as people typically read from top to bottom, mastheads are commonly placed on the top part of a magazine. Moreover, the size, color, typeface will also play a role in this.
• Typeface
• Typeface refers to the design of text elements. It surrounds various aspects such as font styles, sizes, weights, and spacing. Typeface plays a very important role in conveying meanings; readability, aesthetics, and even the emotional response of the audience.
• Colour
• The choices of colors is also a very important aspect when creating magazines as this also conveys the emotions and meanings that we want to display. Attractive colors also grab the reader's' attention, which helps the magazine gain engagement. 
• Layout
• etc.  

He also told us to go back to our magazine research to look at some references on how the layout of my genre of magazine are usually like. After learning about how to layout and use fonts properly, the class was told to remake a new magazine front cover experiment beside the old one. 

Reflection: This task was very entertaining to do as I honestly enjoy designing things. Moreover, the presence of a template made the task so much easier to do. I'm quite satisfied with the outcome of this, although I feel like I didn't create enough of them as I spent too much time trying to organize everything during the first few minutes of the time given by the teacher. This task has helped me gain new knowledge regarding magazines and how typographies can be manipulated to suit a certain hierarchy of type, etc.