(This is a project from back in 2010)
Our semester long project for Digital Layout & Design was to create our own magazine. After deciding what our magazines should be about we sat down and had to come up with a variety of possible names. I choose to do a magazine centered on the subcultures of Steampunk, Cosplay, Renaissance Reenactment and LARP.
For my magazine design and concept I am very much attracted to the idea of creating something that caters to a certain subcultures of the world that are not well known but are strong in numbers and beliefs. The magazine would have combinations of fantasy and anime, it would involve cosplay and con events, costume making and tips for finding props and spotlighting makers of custom items and the like. Also it would have sections dedicated to LARPing and medieval/fantasy reenactment and recreation. It would include patterns for corsets and dress and tutorials and articles on style and what was and was not realistic back then. There would be highlighting larps with pictures and summaries and showing of pensic and the SCA.
Possible magazine titles:
- Dragons lair
- Costume central
- underworld
- Out there R’ Us
- Hidden Gem
- Different
- Sub-world
- Uncut
- Unknown
- Highlight
- Highlighter
I ened up choosing Uncut after a critique/brainstorming session with part of the class. After we decided on our magazine titles we needed to start creating idea's what the masthead would look like. After some searching for very special fonts and experimenting these were what I came up with.
After a little tweaking I choose the third concept to be my mastheads, the color around it would change to match the colors of each issues cover.
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