In the making of my two contents page drafts I learned a few skills and techniques which will help me in future projects. 

Firstly, because I played around much more on indesign to try and drastically improve my contents page I think I learned some valuable skills and lessons as a result. I really wasn’t happy with my first two drafts of my contents page because the layout and colour scheme didn’t seem to work and they didn’t look clean or professional at all.  My more recent and final draft however I think is great improvement on previous drafts because I took my teacher and peers advice and redesigned it from the ground up.  When I did this I learnt a lots more not only on indesign but in the actual design phase as well. I learnt:

• better techniques on using text on indesign
• To design and create a much cleaner looking page
• To take ideas from real magazines and incorporate them into my own design

The following are some of the tools I used on indesign:

• Gradient feather
• Gradient swatch
• The rectangle frame tool

Overall I am much happier with my new draft of my contents page. I also learnt a number of lesson in creating something like this and will use these skills on future projects.