Design Magazine Cover and Spread Project

Students had to research various graphic design magazines and do a Creative Suite tutorial to create a custom graphic of illustration for the following design project. The design project was to create and build a "how-to" cover and editorial spread using the magazine's frame (grid), and design format using Adobe Creative Suite; InDesign, Illustrator and Photoshop.

Various Magazines - Nice Covers!

Fall 2013 Design Magazine Project

This project was to create and design a magazine cover and editorial spread according to their chosen magazine's existing Format, Frame, and Formula; assignment also helped expand designs techniques by doing a graphic design tutorial for the artwork and graphics to supplement their in software leaning in this project.

Spring 2011 - Project 5:Magazine Design

The magazine design project was an excercise in the use of style sheet and master page use in InDesign, with an emphasis on the 4 F's of magazine and publication design: Format, Frame (grid), Function, Formula. The assignment was to recreate a HOW TOO magazine cover and spread. A tough assignments for beginning designers. Only had two good design and a few nice covers.

Fall 2010 Project 4 - Magazine Cover and Spread

The assignment was to design a cover and editorial spread for graphic design magazine as an introduction to the principles of publication design; to develop typography hierarchy; to utilize a grid system; to organize information and to utilize InDesign as a layout tool. While utilizing the principles of design, it also gave the students an opportunity to learn some new special effects techniques and to take a look at design industry magazines like HOW, Communication Arts, and Print to name a few.

Spring 2010 Project 5 - Design Magazine

Student are suppose to design a cover and editorial spread for a graphic design magazine as an introduction to the principles of publication design; to develop typography hierarchy; to utilize a grid system; to organize information and to utilize InDesign as a layout tool.