Friday 9 April 2010

Front Cover Ideas 1 - Boogie

The first idea I had was for a magazine called BOOGIE. The idea behind this magazine was to be something similar to Vice Magazine, having a set theme for each issue. For this issue I decided to make the issue about Teddy Boys. I took the name Boogie from the title of a Crazy Cavan and Rhythm Rockers song 'Gonna Rock, Gonna Roll, Gonna Boogie'.

For the layout i took inspiration from a 1960's Concert poster for Jefferson Airplane and Big Brother and the Holding Company.

I liked the style of lettering and the way it was shaped around the picture in the middle. I then drew a layout design for my magazine. I decided to use only two colours; light pink and black.

I then made a really quick mock up of what the cover could look like. I took a quick photo of me wearing a pair of Brothel Creepers with my webcam and then drew some rather wobbly letters around the picture using WordArt from Microsoft Word. If I was to develop this design further I would not use WordArt or a webcam on the final product but would draw the letters by hand or create them entirely in Photoshop and would use a much better camera to take the photo.