Magazine layout ideation

This is my progress from my first grid line layout to my finalized one!

TRY 1 for Wheeler's Yard

TRY 2 and Final try for wheeler's yard

TRY 1 for Lola's cafe

TRY 2 for Lola's cafe
I realy liked this ideation very much. but too bad there will be too much visuals as compared to actual content. ):

The layout is upside down. oops haha. i do not know how to rotate it. But anyways, this is my TRY 3 and final try for Lola's cafe. 

Ive merged two of the lessons together as one because we spent quite some time on the ideation of the magazine layout. So this is all of them collated into one post.

Lesson 19

We learnt to do the book file today. it was a really short lesson for us because he only took a short while to go through how to collate our pages into a book at the end of the GWA1. After that we were split into our groups to complete the layout of our magazine page.

Lesson 18

We did the Goudy text style sheet today.And also learnt how to do individual text styling and also paragraph styling. I played around with the different functions and this is what i got!

I really liked the final product haha. the one on top. However, for the title.. i think it'll be good to be able to learn how to only edit the text "O" itself to become pink instead of both the blue underline and text together. But i guess i can also just draw the line itself and fill in the text in a different color editing only one character. okay, i probably dont make sense now, but this tool is going to be very useful for my own magazine page for GWA1.

Lesson 17

It was another indesign lesson today. We tried this page out with Mr Cheo’s guidance

I was able to star off with the simple elements of the article first like the different text boxes, the polacing of the placeholder text and the stoppress header. But It was har for me to figure out how to have the text wrapped around so perfectly on the baby. It was  using the pen tool and type tool. It surprised me how easy it was, but I think for more complicated images in the future, it would require a keen eye for the strokes and curvature of the line drawn haha. Also, there were a few hiccups during the placing of the baby. The image came out different and unlike the one in the picture, there were little holes that were transparent and it was cause some settings were left out during the placing of the image during the text wrap step.

Following this, we had to complete our own page on indesign. When I first saw the example I was shocked cause there seemed to be a lot of elements needed to complete the page. And yes there were a lot of elements. I took a slightly longer time to complete the thing, however I managed to complete the thing before the end of the lesson without any help. Quite happy with the result and final look as compared to the example. Haha. Oops.

Lesson 16

We learnt about grid lines today. Turns out all the magazines, no matter how different the magazine page looks they all follow grid lines set up on the Indesign page itself, during preparation itself. We learnt three different grid line styles today. And we got to see many different examples of magazines following the same layout yet having totally different designs. The different layouts ive seen served as an inspiration. Here are some magazine layouts i found online

Lesson 14

Today we did our first indesign exercise. It was really confusing at first having to remember the different measurements needed to attain the right formatting for that particular page. For example, the right bleed, how many columns, the spaces between each of them and such. After the first part, listening to what Mr cheo had to tech we had time to complete our own magazine page which  is the one above. To create the effect around the MRT picture we had to create a text wrap around the image itself. The different sections were created through the colored text box tool. One very essential part of this magazine creation thing that I overlooked very often was the leading for the font and text. It is very important that the font size was the same as the leading, if not there would be very odd spaces around the article. We had to slowly figure out how to re create the magazine page ourselves, but luckily It didn’t come hard for me.. :b

We also had a brief for our GWA1 today. We were tasked to come up with a 8 page magazine, me and my group have decided to do a magazine based on cafes in singapore. 

Final presentation IWA1

We had to present our own work today to help them to understand our work better. Honestly, I don’t think that my work goes with chanel’s image, it isn’t like their usual advertisements on tv. And I should maybe have tried making my chanel cutout overlay black. it might.. MIGHT have been suitable for an anniversary of chanel no.5 or something like that. I could have done better for the little images at the back itself cause some of the images might have been a little too pixelated or blur. There were some really good work shown like Dawama’s and Alicia’s. Really surprised when the results came out and I got an A for it because I thought that they would think the advert was too messy or complicated or didn’t suit the company’s image. But YAY!!