This project was developed and completed in March 2021 as part of the Typography I module for a course in Digital Media Design BA.
The Brief: Students were to develop a six page magazine spread using a previously published article from the university's local news paper. Students needed to carefully work with the spacing and placement of text, headlines, image captions, etc to develop a carefully crafted feature article to be displayed in a magazine. The content was to be used in full and only once, not repeated, edited, or adjusted in any capacity.
The Response: For this project, I wanted the magazine editorial to be reminiscent of an old postcard or novel, with sort of an English pirate theme to it. I wanted deviate from the usual clean styles that I create to have an old-time, rustic aesthetic. I think that the typewriter typeface, which is a bit more slab-serif than serif, accomplished it perfectly, and the paint-like display typeface was the perfect accent to compliment the body text. As for the colour scheme, I wanted it to be rather muted and calming, and so I used the eyedropper tool to get a pastel indigo from the water of the cover image.
