Pictures

Magazine Masthead

After talking with classmate about my magazine i decided that i wanted to go more for a children's interactive magazine. So i changed my intended audience to age 6 through 13. Its for kids in elementary school and middle school and it will be a learning aid as well as a fun activity book. For my Masthead i wanted to create an hand drawn feel for the title. I fell like this will work well with my magazine idea. Im class today i searched different fonts on font squirrel. i found a font that i liked and i decided to recreate it in illustrator. I also am considering trying to create the font using potatoes. (Reference this website) http://potatofonts.com/

Magazine Sketches

These are a few of my sketches and ideas for my magazine. I decided to change my mind about this magazine a little i want my audience to be children and i want this magazine to be interactive. As a child I remember the magazine highlights being interactive with word searches puzzles and articles and activities. I want this magazine to reference that. Its still going to be about nature and the articles are going to teach the kids different things but there is also going to be coloring pages connect the dots making a deer or a mouse. It will be a learning experience and but create a fun environment with is a necessary element of learning anyway.

 

http://www.wildernesscollege.com/building-a-fire-pit.html

I found this website very informational I got a lot of ideas from it about what type of articles could be featured on the cover

Mindmap and Moodboard for magazine project

1. My target audience for this magazine is anywhere from college students to like mid 30s because its going to be an informational magazine with lots of educational things.

2. Mother Nature is the name of my magazine because its about the natural things in life and there beauty and animals and landscapes are a part of nature. This relates to my topic in a funny way because we do not see the term a lot but mother nature is everything around us.

3. My masthead is going to consist of illustrations and text (the title of my magazine) I want to interact them some how but have the illustration be something that changes from issue to issue.

4. On the cover I want to have an image of an animal or bird and a beautiful landscape. I want people to see mother nature as beautiful even thought it may be scary when you are really out in the wild.

5. My sell line will be relating to my main article and it will be about which ever animal I decide to put on the cover it will entice my readers because it will be catchy and informational.

For my magazine I wanted to do something different that i have not done before and I have yet to work with wild life and nature so i gathered a lot of insperational pictures from the wild to create my mood board. It has more of a wild animal feel with the deep colors.

My Mind map took me in a lot of different direction i could not decide on which direction i wanted to do so i chose to do something that i had not had much work on yet. I have do not a project with nature but never with animals.

Exersice

This project was very time consuming but was easily done it taught me alot about the different ways to change photos. I even learned a few new things about photoshop that i didnt know before. It really just shows how much there is to learn about different programs. 

House Project

I really enjoyed this project I learned a lot about how to use google sketch up. It was a good experience learning and teaching ourselves to do use this program. It was surprised at house easy I caught on to it. I had a lot of trouble with the roof but after asking for help it was a simple solution. This was an interesting project to do and I am glad we got the chance to work with it.

Final Seed Packets

This was my final seed packets layed out and mounted. The black background worked to my advantage here because my colors were pastel and it made them pop.  I learned alot about using illustrator in this project that I had not known before.

This was the packet that I constructed for the final and I was impressed with how it turned out i feel like on screen you never know how it is going to look but the final product turned out great.

 

 This is my final project. I beleive it turned out really well After its all cut out and pasted I liked it better that I did on screen.  There is always room for improvement but im hapy with the final project.