Content Page Research & Development

This is my research and development for the content page of my fashion magazine

References/Research

I searched up what the content pages look like on typical fashion magazines and decided to do some further research on a few of the content pages that caught my eyes.

I love how they displayed the products on the content page. It catches the reader's attention and the typography/amount of text present doesn't overwhelm them. In my opinion, magazines with too much typography can become rather intimidating, but this content page includes more images which are very captivating and color-coordinated very well.

Although the content page is mainly monochrome, I like how they displayed the model (Kanye West), as well as the use of the initial behind him. It didn't seem overwhelming and is very appealing.

I like how some of these magazine display their products on the content page but the negative space here is used badly and I don't like how the page looks very full and tacky.

Overall, I have come to the conclusion that most fashion magazines would typically include product images/advertisements, as well as model pictures. Their content pages typically consist of 50+ pages and the amount of columns and rows in the magazine varies. Additionally, a majority them have headers which are put in big fonts and bold, as well as page numbers and featured contents. I've noticed how the page numbers on the content pages jumps from one number to another instead of going (1,2,3,4...) it goes (8,31,150,176...).

Here is my content page development.

I decided to design my content page according to the research I did, taking an inspiration from some of the content pages above.

I did a rough sketch on how I wanted it to look.

I then chose to develop 3 of the sketches on Canva.

1st slide: I didn't like how it looked as it seemed so bland and the layout sort of looked like it was made for a food magazine.

2nd & 3rd slide: They were again very bland and didn't give off any "unique" nor "high fashion" look.

4th slide: I just didn't like how the layout looked.

5th-11th slide: My teacher told me to refer back to my research and so I decided to take inspiration from the Kanye West magazine, and after that just did further development changing the size of the image, color of text, etc.

Reflection: The designing part of this task was very entertaining but also frustrating at the same time as I was very conflicted as to how to lay things out but with my teacher's guidance I was able to manage. Overall, I am satisfied with how the content page turned out. Although, I dislike how the image for the last few slides are sort of pixelated but I can't seem to fix that.