From the course: Magazine Design Start to Finish: The Cover
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Gather your influences
From the course: Magazine Design Start to Finish: The Cover
Gather your influences
- As we saw earlier with National Geographic, outside influences play a key role in magazine design in providing ideas, techniques, and so forth. I had recently come across the work of Nick Mendoza at Brigham Young University. And what caught my eye was this season catalog from a few years ago for the College of Fine Arts and Communications. And particularly two themes both of which can be seen on this spread. Two photographs each of which have been notched out to accommodate text. The second thing I noticed were these patterns of diagonal lines that had been placed atop the images. These lines serve three purposes. One, they're decorative. Two, they tend to soften the edges a little bit like feathering. And three, they create a connection between the two pictures, creating a similarity. This one, like that one. This spread is different. It's busier. You can see rectangles everywhere. You see those notches, but instead of a pattern of lines, we now see a pattern of triangles atop the…
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