Typography & Editorial Final Designs

I was really pleased with how my final designs for the editorial project turned out, I really enjoyed this brief as a whole! I felt like digital skills especially using inDesign had really developed and I had got used to the programme a lot more.

I decided to go for quite a minimalstic style with my spreads, which was an interview of actress Emma Stone. A lot of my research of editorial design I had looked at had a very minimal feel to it with simple geometric shapes included in the designs which I thought looked really fresh and cool!

It took a lot of experimenting in my development but I eventually figured out a way to include the shapes with the text and images. I didn't want too much colour - the whole idea was that the shapes would add a pop of colour to the spreads, and I think the contrast between the black and white and the soft green and blue works quite well.

I feel the first spread is a little bit simpler than the second one.

I really like the colours too, they're clean looking and work really well with a lot of white space. By changing the opacity of the shapes it helped them go with the photographs better, and also allowed for a pretty cool effect with the triangles are slightly over lapped like in the second spread.

I also went for quite a simple layout of the columns for text, I didn't want to make it too unusual as it would draw attention away from the overall design. But I did really want a specific quote to stand out the most, which I think is also done by having a lot of white space around it!

To conclude, I was really pleased with how this brief went and the work I came out with.