- Will you use a photographic subject, an object or will it be illustrative and more vector based? Why are you choosing this media?
I will likely be using mostly illustrative and vector based media for my assignment, mostly because I don't feel a major appeal to photographic media - What type of font will you use? Will you use typeset font or hand lettering?
I'll probably use a typeset because the styles I'm going to try to emulate are usually in regular fonts - What content will your magazine explore? What issue/idea or topic within our social/cultural experience do you want to bring peoples attention to?
I put the ideas below, but I'm thinking of focusing on the shallow importance of a bunch of news reports - Will you be creating your own version of a magazine that already exists within this type of design e.g. parody/satire such as TIME, Esquire, Adbusters or will you be making a parody/satirical version of a more mainstream/serious magazine that doesn't normally do this? OR will you, perhaps, invent your own magazine for this particular project?
For my first three ideas I'll likely make up my own magazine, but try to emulate actual magazines for the last two ideas - What are the creative choices you will make, the risks you will take to separate your magazine from the piles of so many others that we have seen over the years?
I'm going to try and use more recent/relevant references as well as imitate certain styles.
Write out some possible Headlines/ Tag Lines/ Questions to the Viewer you will have as your main piece of font communication for this design
Idea 1: Company logos becoming regular and uniform for little reason - Fashion similar to Soviet propaganda posters
1. "Coke joins the glorious angular revolution"
2. "The revolution of a new era"
Idea 2: Indie things have been tending to perform better than AAA - Fashion similar to something from 20th century/pixelated
3. "AAA developers to go retro"
Idea 3: News/tabloids/etc. cover unimportant things about celebrities lives/most famous celebrities tend to express little emotion or character - Imitate actual magazines
4. "Local man eats hamburger, scandalous details inside"
5. Time Person of the Year - Papyrus from Undertale "How a skeleton outperformed the rest for true realism" - maybe a different video game character