This is my final front cover, as you can see it is similar to my previous draft, however i have added some white bold tears behind the main headline, this has been done as to make it almost jump of the page as the black is contrasted against the white.I have kept with my black and white image idea,as I think it shows the music, most mainstream magazines have the full colour , however seeing as Indie is not mainstream I went against the codes and conventions of a regular magazine. I also made the writing much bigger and moved it down, thus showing the importance and that this is the main dominant article and so people can easily see its relation to the front cover image.
I have also added some writing underneath the picture in the top right hand corner, this i have seen in many magazine covers so was something i thought would make mine look authentic. The authenticity is something which has been a very important factor when creating these pages, that's why i have paid particular care to the little things such as the bar code on the bottom right side and the placement of the articles so they have a look which makes you think professional.
I have also tweaked things like the placement of writing such as the web address, this has been moved so that i have less blank spaces and so everything looks more organised and therefore more real or professional.
The colours used are very much similar throughout the whole of the magazine, the black and white effect is one which i haven't changed in this issue, therefore creating a mood or style of this particular magazine or just the issue.
I'm on the fence about this, while more customization is good, I have a feeling this is a "in-progress" update, it just feels incomplete and half-way there.
ReplyDeleteWe use badge layout for apps on design approvals (visual projects), so the image being displayed is important. Old layout "feels like" it had larger images,
maybe because the images were cropped more loosely so it's easier to tell which project it was at quick glance. Now the image is cropped closer, making it
harder to scan thru at quick glance. I find myself needing to click into the project more often than usual. Which makes the whole user experience less
efficient.
I have a couple suggestions that might make it work better:
1. Increase the height of the window the cover image is being displayed.
2. Let us to choose which image to be displayed as "cover" (like how Pinterest handles cover images of each board, was hoping for this for a long time)
3. Let us adjust which part of the image to show and how tight or loose the crop is (with a fixed window, let us move the image around and maybe enlarge or
shrink it to control what shows thru the window. Pinterest does a limited form of this, which is very useful in making the cover image relevant)
4. Allow Cover Image to be ordered in different hierarchy (currently every element can be ordered differently except the Cover Image, it seems to be stuck
in the 2nd spot, would like the option to set it on another spot in the layout. This one seems like an easy fix, since you guys allow that for every other
element already)