My Magazine Front Page Swede

For this task we had to take an existing NME magazine cover and recreate it, as a “swede” to become more confident and comfortable using Adobe InDesign and it’s tools, in practice for the creation of our own music magazines in future.

Below is my resulting swede (on the left) in comparison to the reference I used. Overall I am happy with the final product despite it’s imperfections. In reflection, my three pros and three cons are;

  • Pro- Successfully edited the star image to overlay the title as in the original.
  • Pro- Text styles (italics, line spacing, etc) are accurate and allow the text to remain readable and clear.
  • Pro- Spacing and layout of text is successful and readable, catching theauydiences attention without interfering with visibility of the central image.
  • Con- The star image is lower quality than the original (the best I could find online), decreasing the quality of the overal image.
  • Con- The text/content does not fit the page in the same style as the original, leaving an obvious gap around the edges.
  • Con- Bordering shadows/vingette are not as neat or smooth as the original, with shadows overlapping where they shouldn’t and the inner sahdow of the background not working as desired.

PDF Link:
https://blogs.grammar.sch.gg/zoesneddon/files/2019/10/final-draft-swede.pdf

Three Useful Tutorials for Future Work:

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