Thursday, 31 March 2011

First designs


This is the first design of my front cover. It is quite basic and unimpressive. I gave it to the five people in my college that fit my target market and asked for their feedback on what needs improvement. They came up with a number of useful ideas:

-Place a border at the top so the footer doesn't look so unusual
-Perhaps change the supporting images to supporting stories so the large image has greater power in the page



Like my front cover, my contents page comes across as overly simple and seemingly inadequate to present a professional image. Once again I turned my work over to members of my target market in search for feedback:
-There's no option to subscribe to the magazine
-The images look like they would be small on the page
-The sections of the page don't seem clearly defined


Without doubt, my double page spread was the area that needed the most work. Far from an industry quality design, I set about redesigning the page, asking members of my target market for pointers:

-Maybe place the main image in the centre of the spread
-I'd like to see a picture similar in style to that in the preliminary tasks content page
-There needs to be more on the page than just the story and two images.


With all this feedback I was able to get to work redesigning my magazine and creating a piece that would come across as more professional and portray exactly what my target market want!

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