Digital Magazine Cover Collage
Our sketchbooks are boring! Let's WAKE them up!
Magazines are living things. They are ideas. They are opinions. They are points of view experiences, communities, and societies. They are stories that capture the essence of the here and now.
The issue’s cover is one of the, if not the, most important piece of the magazine. This is your reader’s first engagement with the magazine - it makes the very first impression that either entices the reader to continue or loses the audience’s interest altogether.
We will be creating works that serve as our new sketchbook covers, and YOU are the subject!
The cover is your style and tone setter. You must design a cover that authentically depicts your sketchbook’s tone and your voice. This is a great time to start exploring your style!
The Golden Rules of Cover Design
ASSIGNMENT:
Create a 'magazine' cover using editing software with you as the subject.
- You may use any style of magazine that you would like (school appropriate, of course) ---> IDEAS HERE
- make sure that the project you create reflects the style of the magazine (you may need to do some research!)
- You can use an existing (real) magazine or make up your own
- You will need to include 5+ 'stories' for your cover, they need to be related to you, the subject, in some way
For example, a story about Malamute dogs (because they are your favorite), a story about Paris (because you want to go there someday), a story about NASA (because you want to be an aerospace engineer someday), etc.
- Overall, your cover should look like it could be a real magazine cover
- You must include the following elements:
Banner/Title, Image, Cover blurbs (stories), barcode, Price, Date
Step 1: Using the Doc assigned in Google Classroom, fill out the following information:
Type of magazine- what magazine represnts your interests? How can you "tell" me about you without literally telling me about you??
Image- YOU ARE THE SUBJECT SO YOU MUST USE A PICTURE OF YOURSELF ---> what are you going to be doing? What face are you going to be making? Are you going to edit images together or use a single photograph?
Coverlines- What is additional information that is interesting for me to know about you? IMPORTANT: How will you phrase it on the cover? Be sure to consider fonts and spacing. Look at REAL COVERS for ideas!
Step 2: In your sketchbook, create a 3x4in (USE A RULER) sketch of your plan. Remember, PLANNING is IMPORTANT.
Use colored pencils to finish your drawing. You will need to turn in an image of this plan with your final Photopea work.
Have the teacher sign your drawing off and give any necessary feedback before moving on. (This is part of the grade.)
Step 3: Open Photopea and begin your work.
TITLE: Lastname_Cover
Measurements: 7 in x 10 in (make sure to put it in inches, NOT PIXELS!)
REMEMBER: Include your masthead (title), barcode, date, price, picture OF YOU, and 5+ articles that tell me more about you
CONSIDER: Colors, fonts, and locations of items to make your work balanced and nice to look at
The images below show my process of looking for inspiration, collecting all of the pieces for my work, then putting it together.
