magazine

For my magazine project, I chose to do a festival issue for a live music magazine. The title I chose is supposed to read "live for live (music)." The particular festival I chose to cover was Bonnaroo. I chose it for its setting in Tennessee, which I found pretty unconventional for music festivals, and its an event that would provide me with colorful, lively pictures. For the pictures throughout the magazine, I just chose pictures of the bands that played the festival. The cover is Radiohead in concert and though they didn't play at Bonnaroo, I felt their stage presence and lighting effects would be a good cover for the magazine. For the ad, I chose a M.I.A Marc Jacobs ad because shes basically an indie phenomenon, and her fans are likely to go to music festivals. The colors I chose, like the bright red for the title and sidebar, were meant to bring some excitement to the article.

Magazine

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My Cover: 

My magazine wouldn't save as spreads, so I just have the individual pages, but I think you can tell which page goes with which. I did my main layout on a festival that I went to this summer in Tennessee called Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival. Basically, my deign motif was just that I wanted to bring the fun and free atmosphere at the festival to my design and make the reader feel like they are really there. My first layout tiles the pictures and bleeds them across the page to my headline "UnRooLy"- a play on the name of the festival, accompanied by the definition of the term bonnaroo. My second spread uses the colors from the festival logo and the font (Bauhaus) in it too. I used the same grid design at the bottom of my second spread. My sidebar is a Bonnaroo survival guide that I wrote- things I wish I would have known before going. My back cover is an Absolut ad because there are a ridiculous number of Absolut ads in Rolling Stone. Overall, I'm happy with my design because I think it's very eye catching since it's colorful and fun.