Taylor Magazine Design Covers

A College brief that required to design the look and feel of two different magazine cover options for a fictional magazine called Taylor. The depiction had to visually relate to one or all of the supplied feature articles comprising the magazine. I decided to employ two different mediums, including high-resolution photography and digital collage, using Photoshop for both. The first cover conceptually relates to the article, “The Night Shift - New Ways of Working”, essentially symbolising the essence of the article’s core meaning - that creative ideas “spark” at night, as symbolised by the fire lit. A match stick was used to ignite the fire and a close photographic shot was taken in a dim, no-light setting to represent the contextual framework of being a night owl. The typography was manipulated in Photoshop to correspond with the result of the fire's ignition, alluding to a smokey-like appearance that the fire would typically generate in the air. This cover overall depicts a dark setting, where night owls mostly kindle their creativity in the late hours of the night, in a quiet atmosphere, and their brains are on 'fire' with a multitude of exciting ideas coming together. The second cover represents a visual portrayal of Vince Frost’s article on “Inspiration”, explicitly referring to a statement mentioned in the written piece - "Eyes open breathing in pictures, potential ideas, reference." The image of the eye on the cover communicates the 'mind's eye' that outpours a stream of pictures, potential ideas and other random things that all serve to reference that inspiration is a stream of consciousness that goes through a vague mind set, seeking an answer. The cover results in a colourful and playful manner, serving to highlight that the thematic concern of inspiration is generally a vivid and stimulating experience that one goes through, processes and observes for a design-provoking idea.