May 27th

Hello and welcome back from Quebec! I hope you all had a great time. If you can believe it we only have 7 classes left! Today at beginning of class I'll post a calendar so that you know everything that will be happening between now and the last day so you can plan accordingly. We will take 4 more classes to finish our current inDesign unit and then on June 6th we will start our culminating activity.

For today:

Last class we created text portraits and they turned out great! If you're not done, quickly finish and EXPORT it as a jpeg or png. If you see a black line around the image where you traced, then go to your pentool and make sure that you don't have a black stroke selected.

Today we will do the following:

If you had your own magazine, what would it be about? What would be on the cover?
Using InDesign, design a magazine cover that looks as “real” as possible. You can duplicate an existing magazine or come up with your own original idea.
Include the magazine name, a picture or illustration and the usual text describing what’s inside the magazine (as well as a date/volume/issue number etc)
What are some things that all magazine covers have in common? Why do certain magazines look the way they do?
This site gives a detailed breakdown of some standard elements of magazine covers.
A google image search for “magazine cover” should provide plenty of inspiration.
Make it “Bleed” – the images on most magazine covers will go right over the edge of the page (in the design world this is referred to as a “bleed”). Make sure your images are large enough to roll off the edge of the page so there won’t be a border on your image.


Here is a great tutorial to get you started in inDesign:
inDesign Magazine Cover Tutorial