Finals

It's been a really lengthy process so far, and making a 'taster' magazine was probably one of the better ideas I've had during the study. Many more pages would have been a much harder, uphill battle - in addition to the other elements of this study. I feel as though my taster magazine for my company, 'The British Trend' thankfully, is the perfect size in order to get everything I wanted to go in there, while also giving it enough time to show some real personality. I've now fully designed my taster magazine and its partnering four seasonal covers:

'The British Trend' taster magazine:

I feel this has turned out exceedingly well, especially as my initial choice for binding would have been Paper-Back (however I would have needed 40-700 pages for this to be a possible option). I'm overjoyed with how nicely Saddle-Stitch looks in my magazine, as this was my second choice, I was at first perhaps a little disappointed - but this has certainly worked out for the best as this, I feel, would have looked better anyway as this shows more relevance to the idea of a "taster" magazine to take away with you, put in your handbag and get a feel of the cover, content and personality of the magazine on a smaller, softer scale.

Four Seasonal Covers:

Spring:

Summer:

Autumn:

Winter:

Alike my taster magazine, I'm also overjoyed with how well 'The British Trend' magazine's seasonal covers have turned out. After designing them in the software programmes, Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign (ensuring all of the outfits and captions were relevant to the season) I had them professionally printed, then mounted. It's been interesting to use the same elements of design (such as boxes, similar layout style and typefaces) while still attempting to make the above examples unique from each other, similar on the basis of aesthetic layout design, yet different from most magazines out on the market today.

This has been one touch but enjoyable experience, and I've had not only a lot of fun creating a taster magazine, blog and other social networking sites for 'The British Trend', but I've also thoroughly enjoyed becoming a part of magazine/publication design in my own way.