Thursday, 16 December 2010

PICTURE INFORMATION

I have organised to take my pictures next Thursday (December 23) so will not be able to upload anything with an image on it until after then.

CONTENTS PAGE - UNFINISHED

Thursday, 9 December 2010

NEW COVER (STILL WITHOUT PICTURES)

COVER WITHOUT PICTURES

BAND NAMES AND FONTS

The main feature in the magazine and so on the cover will be a new band called 'Doll House'. The font for this will be Arnprior (dafont.com). It looks like this:




For the caption I am using the font Mari & David (dafont.com). This looks like:





I have put a banner across the top of the magazine and the font I will use on this is Champagne & Limousines (daftont.com). These are the band names I have chosen to use on the banner:










Wednesday, 8 December 2010

NEW MASTHEAD

Now I have renamed my magazine, I have redone the masthead. It went through several stages of development. These are those stages:


This was the original masthead:
I thought it looked too simple and not very effective.








This was the masthead after I changed the font and colour scheme:
I preferred this version to the first but still was not completely satisfied with it.




This was the masthead I eventually settled on before I added colour to it:
I like this one because it fits nicely against the edges of the magazine unlike the others which had diagonal edges on the 'v'.


This is the final masthead:
I like this because it looks good and the colours go together well. Because I chose to use these colours, I will have to rethink my house style as, at first, I said I was going to use blue, red and white. But, now I am going to use blue, purple and white.

I have since edited this to make it look more effective:

PLAN OF CONTENTS AND DOUBLE PAGE SPREAD


PLAN OF COVER

ORIGINAL MASTHEAD

When I first named my magazine, I named it 'Electric Bass' and made a masthead for that magazine. This is the first version of that masthead:





That then developed to:









But I was unhappy with the name and design of this masthead so that is why I renamed it.

NEW FONTS

Feedback Quiet





Fenwick





Photonica




Fortyfive





Freak Turbulence




Futurist fixed-width




Happy Killer





I have chosen to use the font 'Happy Killer' for the masthead of my magazine. I have chosen to edit it a little too to make it look better. This is what it looks like now:

Monday, 6 December 2010

NAME CHANGE

I had been finding fonts to suit the magazine name 'Electric Bass' but have now decided to rename the magazine 'Vegas Sound' but this will be shown as VEGA$OUND.

FONT IDEAS

All fonts from dafont.com

Photonica





After Shock




Akoom





Alpha Flight





Andrefist




Arnprior





Ascent 2 Stardom





Assassins Dub





Ben Krush




Bob