by Eugénie Besson
Media Studies Blog
On this page you will be able to discover in details the creation of the Masthead and the choice for the contents of my magazine, which will appear in the ToC.
Masthead
My magazine will essentially featur arts through different approaches and opinions on cultural issues. The audience reading my magazine should reflect on the topics found in it and consider the diversity of perceptions.
This led me to consider some titles like : "Reflection" "Contemplation" "Variance" "Thought" "Musing" "Pensive" "Reflected"
The verb "Reflect" actually satisfied more the main purpose of my magazine and different definitions of the word can be counted. It will consequently be the name of my magazine.
This word is also mysterious and relative, it may then be intigrate and the viewer will be curious to know more about it.
Reflect : because culture reflects the belonging to a group and art reflects the perception of the world or of the reality from the artist who composes that art.
Design:
I would like the Masthead to represent, through its design, the characteristics of the magazine.
I searched simple examples of serif and sans-serif font. In order to try something formal, which will highlight the elaborated articles found in the magazine, but also captivated and easier to read for the readers.
Some inspiration I found on
To represent the artistic feature of the magazine I thought about reshaping the first letter "R" in a handwritten font.
Trial of the first letter "R"
Additionally I decided to see different options I could make in order to illustrate the definition of the word in the typography.
Inspiration from Pinterest:
Trial:
While choosing the design of the Masthead I carefully made sure that the letters are easily decipherable from one another so readers don’t have to spend precious mental energy identifying letters.
Some drafts:
Final version:
All my work for the masthead has been done on Adobe Illustrator.
Table of Content
The page contents gives a first impression to the audience to uncover the composition of the magazine. It is necessary to express the genre through the article's titles.
You will be able to see below the my first main ideas of the table of content and my final decision.
Initial choices
-Editors note
- Article (introducing better the topic of the magazine) (global village) (Glocal : Marshall McLuhan)
-TOC
- Exhibition of the month ( vernissage TV )
- Interview : Jean ( Spanish, Catalan issues, rap )
- South Korea beauty trends
- Photo-series inspired by lyrics of an artist(USA) (open call on social media global)
- Reviews movies (need title)
- Architecture Budapest (need title)
-Article (needs title) portrait of an artist (Australia)
- Fashion photo journal
- Article : Is originality dead ? (creating in a remix culture)
- Meeting with...
- Portfolio
- Inside Moscow's National Ballet School
- Being a female writer (Africa)
Final choice
-Edito
- Global Village (double spread)
- Table of content
-public investment in art and culture
- Exhibition of the month (double spread)
- Interview : Juan Alzamora (Rap singer) (double spread)
- South Korea beauty trends (double spread)
-Street art around the world (2double spread)
- Photo-series inspired by lyrics of an artist(USA)(3 double spread)
- Review movies (need title) (double spread)
- Across the Architecture of the Hungarian capital (3 double spread)
- Fashion photo journal (4 double spread)
- Creating in a remix culture (2 double spread)
- Meeting: Arnaud Deschamps (youngest interior designer) (2 double spread)
- Portfolio challenging our expectation of beauty (3 double spread)
- The best street style from Berlin (2 double spread)
- Inside Moscow's National Ballet School (2 double spread)
- Close up in the uses of Neons
- Being an Argentinian writer (2 double spread)
- Can performance art still resonate with the public ?
-Beauty (Japan's trend of the moment)
-Interview Music (Juan Alzamora, a Catalan rapper)
-Exhibition of the month ("The Dreamers" Kourtney Roy)
-Street Art (Urban illustrations all over the world)
-Gold nuggets on screen (Review of the 5 highest rated movies of 2018)
-Misconceiving (Photo-series inspired from lyrics)
-Interview Literature (Being an Armenian writer)
-Eyes on you (Fashion photo journal of Ioana Ionescu)
-Topic (Creating in a remix culture)
-Meeting (An atypical interior designer)
-Porto-folio (Challenging our expectations of beauty)
-Street style ( A taste of Berlin's fashion)
-Visit (Inside Moscow's National Ballet)
-Close Up (History of Neon)
-Architecture ( Buildings tour of Budapest)
-Question (Can performance art still touch the public?)
The genre of my magazine is connoted by the large fields of art represented in the titles of the articles (such as music, fashion, filmography, architecture, literature, street art and photography). As well as some cultural issues and the diversity of countries represented.
My initial wish would be for my ToC to be symmetrical but also artistic, to contain as mush as visuals possible and to have a description under several articles' title.
However I might make modifications and changed this first expectation, regarding how my images matches and the font uses.
Find out the design of my ToC :