Feature Page Design Ideas

These are the two design ideas that I created for my feature page spread. The direction I decided to go in after doing my two mind maps is: travel. My theme for this page is Brighton as I have a picture of a street in Brighton as the background on the left page, and brighton sky/pebbles on the second page of the two designs. I have chosen to further develop the first design idea because I think the sky background on the page on the right is more visually and emotionally effective compared to the pebble background. I think this because the bright sky will attract readers more and allow them to feel positive as you do during the summer due to the clear blue sky.

Feature Page Mind Maps

Last Improvement of Advert; main aspects of my new advert

My final advert design

As I found it difficult to write a slogan on the chocolate sauce at the bottom I will paste the slogan onto the adverts using Adobe Illustrator so it will look like this:

Improved Advert

I made this advert due to the fact that I was unsatisfied with the outcomes of my previous advert designs. I decided to use Vladimir Konca as an inspiration for this new advert as I used edible substances (coffee beans and hot chocolate) to write the words with. Instead of taking a picture and adding it to a document on Adobe Photoshop/Illustrator I created the whole advert on a piece of paper that I will crop so the advert is only visible. I will then enlarge it to a larger size to fit my magazine. I decided to stick with naming my chocolate 'Moca' rather than 'Mocha' because I believe it's eye-catching and the fact that it is a made up product rather than the known flavour is the main reason why I chose to write it in that way. Also, I changed the arrangement of the chocolate, images of coffee beans and slogan simply because I think it looks better. 

Illustration Page Improvements; Screenshots

How I begun to choose the colour theme for the diagonal strips

My final choice of colours for the diagonal strips

How I decided to use the font: Arial

The final layout for my text

The image of the ketchup bottle by Georgina Luck, and where I selected it from

My final page

The ketchup bottle is the main focus on the page, although the scale is quite small. I think that the size and positioning works and allows the main focus of the page to be the picture because it seems as if it has its own section on page.

Moca Advertisment

This is the first advertisement that I created. I used Adobe Photoshop firstly to open up the picture of the chocolate and coffee beans to alter the colour using the 'channel mixer' option. I changed its colour by making I have a 'musky' look, bringing out a bold brown colour with lighter shades in other areas. This allows the picture to blend in with the background making it look more appealing to the public. I also used Photoshop to add the background and text. Although, in my design idea for my advert I included the fact that I would have a creamy rippling background, I did this experiment to compare two different ideas. After doing both experiments, I realised that my original idea is better, due to the fact that the background creates a large effect on the positive emotion that it can make people feel when looking at it. 


Second experiment (the advert I will use): 

Original chocolate photo I took, using my Samsung digital camera:

 

Illustration Page

This is the 'illustration page' that I created on Adobe Illustrator to include in my magazine. I decided to use my research done on Georgina Luck as I appreciate the type of illustration she does, creating particular effects with the watercolours. 

My intentions were for this page to be eye-catching and unusual as this page is mainly about the layout. I managed to achieve this by placing each paragraphy 'randomly' on the page and have three of the same bottle (that I drew) across the centre of the page, which is different to what you'd normally see in a magazine because once I seperate the page into two, one of them will be split in half.