30/10/2006

I decided to work on the double page article by setting up and designing the intended layout before importing any content from Gun Mart magazine. After making various changes to the size of text and image boxes, I started to study various typefaces that would be visually effective in communicating the essence of sophistication and style. After researching various High Fashion magazines it was evident that less is most definately more, Many of which adopted a minimal approach. As a result from my research, I decided to use typefaces such as Baskerville and Minion Pro for many of the headings. I then started editing the Gun Mart content. I chose to use the subheading's "Quality assured" and Shooting Impressions" using Old Baskerville as the typeface. I decided to use this as the header for the main feature of the article as it seemed the most likely to be used in a high fashion publication. I then started to import the article and images. High Fashion magazines usually layout large articles of text over several pages. Therefore, After editing the article down to fit the text box I decided to continue the article across both pages to balance the composition and lead the eye across both pages. Working with the images proved to be the most difficult of tasks as many of them were of low quality. I decided to use the best quality ones and started to form a composition for each. I also added subtitles in red to form descriptions, add colour and visually link it with the article. Finally, I cropped the word "Shotguns" to link the article with the images. I am pleased with the result of the layout.