#flatmag

Finally putting all of our content together to create our finished flat mag! It was a process of moving things around, changing pictures and wording... but finally we ended up with a final product that we couldn’t have been more proud of (last photo) and handed it in, a feeling our proud accomplishment settling over our whole little group

Flat mag designing! Deciding on which two colours to use for our flat mag was challenging especially with the amount a group member came up with! Eventually we decided on a nice light blue and pink... Then we began to fiddle with fonts

Group Flat Mag for Graphic Design! Beginnings of planning layout and topics, with our finished and written up brief summary of our flat mag statement 

Here is the final layout and design of our Flat Mag! Overall I am very happy with the outcome of it. Last minute before our printing day, Estelle and I sat down after our tutorial and had a play around with the design of the background. I suggested the varying layers of organic shapes and how it should be in different tints so it fills up the background without drawing too much attention away from the articles and stuff in the foreground. It essentially fills the negative space and makes the eyes wander to the articles. 

For my article for the Flat Mag, unfortunately the local businesses I sent emails to did not get back to me in time for our printing. I decided to change my article, it still relates to fashion, however it talks about the fast fashion industry and the pros and cons regarding it and how we should be supporting local buisnesses. Overall I am happy with my article and the design will be getting improved to look more appealing. We have also decided our colours to be blue and a salmon pink colour.

After our group presentation to the class after some reflection I felt that the design of our flat mag was not strong enough and was not very cohesive. After having a browse of some layouts on Pinterest I gathered some inspiration and suggestion to the group that we have a similar design of our flat mag to the images above. It was well recieved and we also started figuring out our colour scheme. 

Here I have written interview questions for local businesses around Hunter and Darby Street.