Cottage Magazine Pages 6 and 7

Assignment:

Create a 1-4 Page Fashion Magazine in InDesign using images and your typography skills.

  • Do your research to emulate the designs of actual Fashion Magazines in order to determine your placement of images and captions.
  • Use High Resolution photos only.
  • Look at all of the image examples below to get an idea of what’s expected.
  • Make sure you take a look at the Rubric to help guide you with the assignment as well.

Document Settings: 1-4 Pages, 300 ppi (Print Quality), 8.5 x 11″ (Portrait or Landscape)

Margins: 0.25″, Bleed: 0.125″

Programs: InDesign (Layout), Photoshop (Image Editing), Illustrator (Symbols/Icons and Logos)

Cottage Magazine Cover
Cottage Magazine layout pages 2,3
Cottage Magazine layout pages 4,5

Applications used:
Adobe InDesign
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Illustrator

Cottage Magazine pages 4 and 5

Assignment:

Create a 1-4 Page Fashion Magazine in InDesign using images and your typography skills.

  • Do your research to emulate the designs of actual Fashion Magazines in order to determine your placement of images and captions.
  • Use High Resolution photos only.
  • Look at all of the image examples below to get an idea of what’s expected.
  • Make sure you take a look at the Rubric to help guide you with the assignment as well.

Document Settings: 1-4 Pages, 300 ppi (Print Quality), 8.5 x 11″ (Portrait or Landscape)

Margins: 0.25″, Bleed: 0.125″

Programs: InDesign (Layout), Photoshop (Image Editing), Illustrator (Symbols/Icons and Logos)

Cottage Magazine Cover
Cottage Magazine layout pages 2,3
Cottage Magazine layout pages 6,7

Applications used:
Adobe InDesign
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Illustrator

Cottage Magazine Pages 2 and 3

Assignment:

Create a 1-4 Page Fashion Magazine in InDesign using images and your typography skills.

  • Do your research to emulate the designs of actual Fashion Magazines in order to determine your placement of images and captions.
  • Use High Resolution photos only.
  • Look at all of the image examples below to get an idea of what’s expected.
  • Make sure you take a look at the Rubric to help guide you with the assignment as well.

Document Settings: 1-4 Pages, 300 ppi (Print Quality), 8.5 x 11″ (Portrait or Landscape)

Margins: 0.25″, Bleed: 0.125″

Programs: InDesign (Layout), Photoshop (Image Editing), Illustrator (Symbols/Icons and Logos)

Cottage Magazine Cover
Cottage Magazine layout pages 4,5
Cottage Magazine layout pages 6,7

Applications used:
Adobe InDesign
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Illustrator

Cottage Magazine Cover

Assignment:

Create a 1-4 Page Fashion Magazine in InDesign using images and your typography skills.

  • Do your research to emulate the designs of actual Fashion Magazines in order to determine your placement of images and captions.
  • Use High Resolution photos only.
  • Look at all of the image examples below to get an idea of what’s expected.
  • Make sure you take a look at the Rubric to help guide you with the assignment as well.

Document Settings: 1-4 Pages, 300 ppi (Print Quality), 8.5 x 11″ (Portrait or Landscape)

Margins: 0.25″, Bleed: 0.125″

Programs: InDesign (Layout), Photoshop (Image Editing), Illustrator (Symbols/Icons and Logos)

Cottage Magazine layout pages 2,3
Cottage Magazine layout pages 4,5
Cottage Magazine layout pages 6,7

Applications used:
Adobe InDesign
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Illustrator

Web Ads

Assignment:

Considering the Principles and Elements of design, create 5 Web Ads from the standard sizes given to you using Photoshop.
You’re encouraged to use the photos from the previous Product or Portrait Photoshoot to build a series of ads, but you also have creative reign to you choose another product or theme using royalty-free stock images. You’ll find project details such as the Ad Types you’ll create for this project and their dimensions below.
Ad Types & Sizes:
  1. Ad for Instagram Story – 1080px by 1920px
  2. Ad for Instagram Grid (Portrait size) – 1080px by 1350px
  3. Ad for General Website (Rectangle) – 300px x 250px
  4. Ad for General Website (Leaderboard) – 728px – 90px
  5. Animated Ad for Web (GIF) – Square, 5 Seconds, 250px by 250 px

Applications used:
Adobe Photoshop

Photo Collage

Assignment:

Create a collage of any 8-12 photos of your choice in Adobe Photoshop.
*Any of the 8-12 images can be used as an optional background.
Demonstrate skills acquired from the completed exercises with selection tools, layer masks, and blending. Have fun with this project, but remember that the goal is to execute a clean, memorable design as well.
Your collage can be symbolic or, it can just be purely an assortment of masked out images with clean edges. Either way, do your best work!
Steps
  1. Set up 11 x 17″ Document at 300 ppi (can be either landscape or portrait)
  2. Gather 8-12+ images
  3. Place images in Document
  4. Mask and Adjust images

Applications used:
Adobe Photoshop

Brand Book

Assignment:

You are a Designer with your own unique brand.  For this Project create your very own Brand Book using Illustrator.

Since you’re just starting out, you’ll only need the following key elements:

  • An Overview of your brand’s history, vision, personality, and key values
  • Brand message or mission statement
  • Logo usage – The Do’s and Don’ts (size, space, scale, color, etc.)
  • Type Style – Specific fonts/font family used
  • Image Style/Photography – examples of images that work with your brand’s aesthetic

You should have the following pages in your book design:

Brand Book Pages.pngLastly, make sure you check for spelling within your document! 

Applications used:
Adobe Illustrator

Magazine Layout

Assignment:

Using Adobe Illustrator and assets of your choice, create a Two Page Spread for Foodie Magazine that uses Flavor’s Pizza as the main feature

Remember the importance of type styles, your margins, columns, and gutters! Use examples of other magazines to help you in your design structure. (Reference your power point presentations on typography and layout).

Design elements to remember:

  • Kicker
  • Pull Quote
  • Inset spacing
  • Alignment (Left, Center, Right, Justify)
  • Leading, Kerning, and Tracking
  • Folio
  • Headings
  • Subheadings

Dimensions:

Spread: 11″ x 17″

Bleed: 0.125″

Margins: 1/4 inch or greater

Food Magazine Cover

Applications used:
Adobe Illustrator

Magazine Cover

Assignment:

Using Adobe Illustrator and assets of choice, create a Cover Design for fictional Foodie Magazine that uses Flavor’s Pizza as the main feature.

Remember the importance of type styles, margins, columns, and gutters! Use examples of other magazines to help  design structure.

Design elements to remember:

  • Kicker
  • Pull Quote
  • Inset spacing
  • Alignment (Left, Center, Right, Justify)
  • Leading, Kerning, and Tracking
  • Folio
  • Headings
  • Subheadings

Dimensions:

Cover: 8.5″ x 11″

Bleed:  .125″

Margins: 1/4 inch or greater

Foodie Magazine Layout

Applications used:
Adobe Illustrator