Peer Review

During the first 15 minutes of class, export your magazine (all four artboards in one Illustrator file) as a PDF RGB and submit it to Posterous as "Rough Draft." Make sure you add page numbers and other header/footer information as you see appropriate for a magazine (look at examples from your physical magazine).

The front cover should have your model, the magazine name that you made up but is appropriate to your genre, the article name on the front cover, and any other things you would like to add to make it more realistic (e.g. bar code). Do not make things up (e.g. write the title of three different articles on the cover but they are not in the magazine!). To edit the front cover photo, edit it in Photoshop and then save it as a PNG 300dpi transparency with a quality between 5-10mb in size. Then insert the JPG photo into the first page of your magazine and type the text.

Remember...

First Page (front cover) - Photograph you took with classroom studio lights and model

Second Page (left) - Your product advertisement

Third Page (right) - Article

Fouth Page (back) - Mr. Men Movie Poster

Then ask someone who does not sit at the computer next to you on your left or right to view your magazine in Posterous on your iMac. Ask them to make a Posterous comment in the article on your magazine. They should comment on a few things you did very well as well as at least three things that you could do to improve it based on the design principals that were taught this quarter.

Then you should make the same comment structure on their magazine in their Posterous.

Post the Posterous article link to the spreadsheet.

With the time remaining, begin making final edits.

Must complete this checkpoint before you leave class & cannot post late so make sure you give yourself enough time for peer review.

If you are absent, have someone complete the comment about your magazine online but you do not need to comment on your classmate's magazine.