KEY TERMS
genre, conventions, inspiration, brand, audience expectations, denotations, connotations, representation.
In Search of Design Ideas
All designers are constantly on the search for ideas they can appropriate (borrow) and incorporate (blend) into their own work.
You need to do the same for your magazine.
Go in search of picture, words, designs as well Photoshop & Indesign techniques you think might suit your magazine.
To gather the images together use Pinterest, which allows you to pin your ideas to a board. Call it ‘Magazine Moodboard’. You’ll need to install the Pinterest tool bar button in Chrome in your profile. This will give the ability to ‘Pin’ images you see in a Google search.
Find photos, designs, images from any manner of sources that you are inspired by and you could use as inspiration for your own magazine. The moodboard will be a reference to you as you design your magazine – it will remind you and redirect you when you are struggling for inspiration and ideas. You will need @ 50 pins.
Use the following search terms in Google after the band names or artists listed.
- ‘Lyrics’
- Gigs
- ‘Album Art’
- ‘Logos’
- ‘Tweets’
- Photos
- Cover pages
- Contents pages
- Double paged spreads
Search also for ‘Design’, ‘Graphics’ and ‘Typefaces’ along with with the following #adjectives, which you associate with the genre – refer back to the wordcloud.
- ‘Grungy’
- ‘Urban’
- ‘Raw’
Use adobe colour wheel for a possible colour palette and include visual denotations and connotations that embody your brand and visual design.
This is a link to my Pinterest board. You need about 50 images.
THIS IS A LINK TO A POP INSPIRATION BOARD.
THIS IS A LINK TO AN INDIE FOLK BOARD.
USE INSTAGRAM FOR A SOURCE OF FANTASTIC IMAGES, IDEAS.
- Click the plus sign (+) at the top of your Pinterest profile. …
- Select “Create Pin” from the dropdown menu. …
- Upload an image file from your computer and add a destination link. …
- Enter a destination link from which to save an image from that website. …
- Title your pin
- Embed your pinterest by snipping a screen shot of as much of it as you can and then link it to the board and tell the examiner to click on it to be redirected to the site.
IT WILL BE A GO TO PLACE WHEN YOU ARE STUCK FOR IDEAS.