2nd Year Uni Work

Magazine Brief: The Observer


After returning to my 2nd year of uni, we were given a brief to re design one of three magazines. the choices were to re design :

The Observer Magazine
New Scientist Magazine
or Ted ( a made up magazine that only exists of a website.)

Each magazine came supplied with an article apart from Ted where you had to get one off the internet of your choice.

I chose to re design the Observer Magazine. My article was titled 'water wars' and was about the debate between whether you should drink tap water or buy bottled water!

We had to design a new front cover, two doubled paged spreads ( all relating to the main articles...water wars) and then an editorial that had to relate to the same style as my other articles but not to the actual article.



This is my front and back cover i designed. My theme was boxing as if bottled water and tap water were fighting against each other. i changed the labels on the boxing gloves to say bottled and one to say tap. My back cover was just plain black as i didnt want it to look too busy and the front cover to stand out.



This is my 1st double paged spread. i hired out the studio at uni and got 2 of my m8s off the 3rd year course and asked them to have a boxin match with each other while i took photos. i got help with the lights as i am not trained to set them up on my own. after taking about 100 pictures i chose the one above as my final image for this page. i think it looks really good as the lights make the scene look dark and moody - like it was a real match.




This is my 2nd double paged spread. I again found a good image out of my photoshoot photos and then chose it to use as my final image. i wrapped the text so it looked like the glove was punching the text out of the way, i think this looks really effective.




This is my editorial page, i kept the same style of design as my other two articles but i did not relate it to the water wars article. i chose the red that was used on the boxing gloves so that it matches, i also kept the same title style as on my 1st double paged spread. ( title vertically up the side).

I really enjoyed doing this brief as i like designing magzines and different layouts.