Cover Page Creation

For this blog, I will be talking about the rest of the work that I did for the day, which was all editing work on my cover to help give it that magazine look.

Now from a different perspective, it looks like I didn't do much, but actively learning how to use Adobe Indesign whilst creating this project... this took me forever to do. 

What I did was create a outside layer around the magazine like how you see in times magazine.

That red that they have across their magazine is what I replicated, but instead did it with orange and made it a lot thinner to make it look more visually appealing to my genre. Because whilst analyzing the time magazine design, I assumed that they made theirs a lot more large because their genre was more formal and bold as on the covers, you tend to see more famous celebrities and important political figures on the page. 

So comparing this to mine, it was the complete opposite, I made my orange, which is a lot less serious, and also gives of the vibe of freshness and organicness. And made mine a lot thinner so that it wasn't taking as much space away from the actual dish itself.

Another thing that you notice I did was the box on the right hand side of the cover. What this was meant to be was the attention grabbing subtitle that you see on a lot of magazines. I gave it that grey box because it blended well with the darker colors of the background, but also made the white visible to read even with the lighter background behind it. And I gave it a orange stroke around the box because I feel like it complimented the orange that you see with the rest of the magazine.

The text I chose was "Meal Prep That Works." Now I was tempted to add a exclamation mark towards the end of the statement, but I felt like that didn't go with the vibe that I wanted to give off. Just off of vibes that it would give, I would associate that more with baking magazines or seasonal cooking magazines where it's a less formal type of feeling that the article is trying to have.

The last thing that I had added so far, which I thought was pretty clever, was a barcode on the bottom left of the cover. Now, I thought I was thinking outside the box with this one and was proud of the idea. What I did was steal a random fake barcode of the internet. (Link: https://www.istockphoto.com/photos/fake-bar-code) And attached a issue date and a price to the bottom of it to make it feel more real and authentic. I lowered the opacity so that the white didn't stick out too much and yeah, that was it.

Link Address: https://www.istockphoto.com/photos/fake-bar-code

That's all the work that I'll probably be doing today as it is pretty late. But in the next blog, I will be finishing up my cover and doing all the finishing touches.