Magazine Design One: Contents Mock up

Continuing the theme of the graffiti artist cover, I chose chosen to give the contents page a similar design with text being sprayed on to the wall, while each page number being presented as a poster.

stage 1: I began by taking a photo of a blank street wall being the background.

Stage 2: I started adding the details like a copyright and a website to the bottom and the top of the contents in order to make it appear to be more authentic. 

Stage 3: Next I began to add text to the contents page.

Stage 4: Like with the cover, I altered the text to make it look like it was spray painted on to the wall.

Stage 5: following on from this I added a small spray paint can in the corner just to help sell the imagery.

Stage 6: With my (fictional) musician character, who is seen on the cover, being a guitarist, I decided to place a guitar next to the briefcase.

Stage 7: Again, like before, I added some stains left over from the spray paint to give it more authenticity.

Stage 8: Above the title, I place three squares which are to become the posters advertising each page of the magazine.

Stage 9: To make the posters seem more realistic, I slightly changed their shape and added small pins on to them.

Stage 10: Once in the right shape I began to add detail on to the posters, starting with the text. Additionally, since the briefcase is supposed to belong to my character, I decided to write the topic and page number relating to him on it, in a font that looks like it was written in pen, complete with stains of ink underneath.