Week 24

 I'm now fairly confident with the laying out of my text, grid structure, and colours for my DPS, and although I will continue to make changes, I wanted to think about the content. I produced some rough sketches, and printed out my article full size, so I could get a closer look and make sure my text was at the right size and that the layout worked blown up to 100%.

I continued work on the layouts as the week progressed, adding photos, and sketching my images in roughly to see how they would work.

Week 23

I came up with another design for the Carbuncles article, and finally produced two final thumbnails for both DPS's. The decisions I made were based on my own opinions of which aspects of the designs worked well, and also from the feedback I received. I have tried to keep the two designs related to each other, and made some clear links in the positioning and size of content as well as the layout and grid structure.

I then made a start on taking my layout into the Adobe Indesign programme.

I'd previously already looked at fonts, but made a final decision and started to tackle the problems with laying out the text in an organised, legible manor.

Week 21 + 22

During week 21, we were given a study week, as some members the class were away visiting New York.

I'd already started working on thumbnail sketches for my Architecture News page, and continued to work on coming up with design solutions.

Based on what I'd seen in other mags and my own original ideas, I'm trying to produce a design that keeps each article separate whilst also linking them together. Another consideration is hierarchy, and deciding which article should be given the most prominence.

Colour coding, size, positioning and numbering are all ways I've considered.

In our next session in week 22, I received feedback on my thumbnails, both from my peers and lecturers. I created some more designs based on this feedback, and decided on my strongest layout, reproducing and tweaking it along the way.
I then started to think about my "Hooray for Carbuncles" DPS, and how I could relate it to the Architecture News spread.