InDesign Guidelines

Project 4 Guidelines
Page Layout- Preparing a book or magazine cover page using InDesignCS3

Design Process:

1. Select a magazine of your preference, review it, analyze its layout, typography, color theme, etc. Your job will be to sketch out some ideas about what the next cover of your favorite magazine will look like for its next edition or publication.

2. Prepare a mock-up of your organic composition in a piece of paper or digital source.

3. You can also do a quick research in the Internet.
For your reference, some good sources in Typography are:
http://www.httpcomunicacio.com/
http://www.identifonts.com/
http://www.sonybmg.com/musicbox/video/matisyahu/?bclid=14270485&bctid=5743543
http://www.energyhill.com/#highlights

4. The next step is to format and assemble your content (what stories will this magazine feature in the cover page).
Your layout can be assembled in Photoshop, Illustrator, In Design during studio time.

Due Date: May 9, 2008.


On May 9, 2008, you are required to present your project in the form of a 3-5 Power Point Slides addressing the following questions:

a) what was your thought process when making a mock-up (design by hand)?

b) in composing your project or layout, what's the message you want to send and to whom?

c) describe the tools, effects and printing options applied to your project.