InDesign

Newspaper Mockup

For this project, I was assigned to come up with my own Newspaper. For my newspaper mock-up, I wanted to make sure the main photo stood out, and so that is why my other photos were either in black and white or muted tones. Also, I chose Copperplate and Apple Chancery for the title of my newspaper because I felt they went with the fashion vibe I wanted for my piece. I included the lipstick as the “I” in fierce just to give the title that little pop of color without going over the top. I chose Helvetica as my body text font because it is simple and easy to read. For the rest of the writing, I stuck with Minion Pro because I wanted it to be uniform but also have serifs. I just wanted the body text to contain serif fonts so it was simple and easy to read. I made the yoga pant and unethical factory stories the biggest stories because I felt they were the most interesting to the reader. I chose to use the “unethical amnesia” pull quote because I felt like it was a dramatic statement and could use attention. I wanted to make sure the spacing between each of the stories looked right so I lined up text with the pictures as well in order to make it uniform. I used the gridlines in order to help guide me when creating the spacing. Finally, I added lines and made them thicker in order to break up the stories so there was clear definition between them all.

Magazine Spread 

For this project, we were assigned to create our own magazine spread. I wanted an overall beach vibe as a result of the California attitude. In order to do this, I took the cover photo, and photoshopped the sky in it to make the background for the second layout of the spread. For the last page, I just made a vertical photo half of the spread. In order to create an infographic, I took a picture of California from pixabay and added the locations that I had highlighted in my magazine spread. I then had to attach all the layers together to create one object. I did this part of illustrator. To cut out the photo, I transferred it to photoshop, where I was able to cut out the background. Then I placed it in Indesign. I chose to do some of the title in lowercase because I didn’t like the formality of capitalizing any more of the words. I didn’t want my magazine to be visually over-whelming, so I went with pretty basic fonds such as minion pro and Arial black. I stayed with these two fonts throughout.

Newspaper Lab 

This is a Newspaper Lab that I did in class. This was the first time I used InDesign to make a Newspaper mockup. I played around with different fonts and kept it a fairly simple tone throughout the piece. I made this piece a sports story theme.