Create an idea for a FICTITIOUS MAGAZINE. The magazine's topic (what it's about) will be one of your own favorite activities, something you love to do. Design the cover for an issue of your magazine using an image of you doing that activity. You magazine cover must meet the following requirements: 1. Use your image as the main subject. It could be your entire body or just your head and shoulders. Either way, the image of you has to portray you doing the thing you're doing at a higher level or setting than real life. Possible Examples: * You're playing basketball but in an NBA game. * You're playing your violin but with a famous orchestra. * You are gardening but in front of a famous palace. * Etc. (In my example below, I put my own head on 11x surfing world champ Kelly Slater's body and modeled my magazine on real surfing magazines.) 2. Use both vector and raster editing. Use Pixlr, Gimp or Photoshop to manipulate your image. Use Inkscape to insert all of your typing and any lines, borders or geometric shapes. 3. Contain all of the elements of a real magazine cover. Do some research, look at some real magazine covers. 4. Must NOT be designed using any sort of template found online. Remember, this is a fictitious magazine. The cover must be a completely original design. 5. As usual, the quality of your editing, the creativity/originality of your design and how well you follow directions are the criteria upon which this assignment will be graded. ALSO...
As a part of this project, design five (5) variations of your magazine's masthead (the title on the front cover). Draw them in Inkscape and export the drawing as a .png file. See the earlier post on saving work in Inkscape and Pixlr if you need help doing this. The example of my masthead designs is below: Comments are closed.
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