For my brief I decided that I wanted to do some designs which would include typography and editorial. At the time when i was emailing the designers for the PPD module and thats where my idea came from. I would email designers and create a editorial which displayed there work and revealed it to the world, this would also be accompanied by a range of my design posters which could then be proposed to have been sold on a website, this then gives me the range of products which all link together. The magazine will be mainly editorial based as this is my key interest in graphic design, however there will be some product design aswell aslong as the work is suitable and has a good design aspect to it. To the right is some exmaples of work which were inspirational towards where my ideas came from and how i want to approach this brief.
Marty Aaron Edwards
OUGD203
Product, Range & Distrobution
The magazine was the first idea that I came up with, I wanted to make this to show other work from designers. The main reason that i went for this style of work was because i really wanted to design in the style of editorial work, this was spurred on from the research which I did into the books and magazines which i have formed on my context blog. The front cover was designed from the ideas which i had for a poster, this was then adapted to the format which i wanted for the magazine and realised that it worked better for this so I then came with the colour scheme for the book which I feel is eye catching and could be carried off with many other designs. Overall i planned to create a 40 page magazine which consisted of designers and my own style of design work, I feel i have managed to create this and pull it off effectivly.
Marty Aaron Edwards
OUGD203
Product, Range & Distrobution
The posters create the largest area of range for my project as these are the parts which would create thebiggest revenue for everything, when these are placed into the main magazine these will fit in perfectly with the other designers work. I created a strong range and made sure that each poster was linked through the logo of Reveal but still kept its own individual way of working with a unique design for each poster, i wanted to make sure that some of them are high in colour and others to be very simplistic. The way in which i would create each poster would be to screen print them onto some a3 stock depending on which the design would need which stock to look its best. Antique white would work rather well for the majority of the designs and would make them look interesting instead of being on standard white stock.
Marty Aaron Edwards
OUGD203
Product, Range & Distrobution
The website is the final aspect of my brief was to create a website which the posters inside the magazine link too. This website started out as a single page which just had the posters on but then i realised why not create a whole website which would have roll over buttons and other information such as a subscribe page and also contact information incase you would want to get in touch with any of the designers about getting your work chosen to be printed. I have created the designs as vectors and then placed them into a screen shot of a iMac to be able to show how they finished designs would look when they would be made live. I made sure that all the information linked up through-out the whole project so there isn’t any cross pricing. I feel like this is a strong part of my range and that this product could actually work and take off as a professional product.
Marty Aaron Edwards
OUGD203
Product, Range & Distrobution