Here are my Creative Critical Reflections for my magazine brief:
CCR #1
How does your product use or challenge conventions, and how does it represent social groups or issues?
CCR #2
How does your product engage with audiences and how would it be distributed as a real media text?
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CCR #3
How did your production skills develop throughout this project?
CCR #4
How did you integrate technologies - software, hardware, online in this project?
Here's the final brief of my magazine!! I am so happy to show the final product of my magazine and hope you are as well. Here it is, hope you enjoy!!
Hey guys and welcome to another two part blog post. In the first part I showed my rough draft of my feature article, but for today's post I'm going to show the layout plan and the final look with all the information placed into there places.
First, here is the layout idea I planned for my feature article:
This is what the magazine looks like now with all the information placed in:
Well, that concludes my feature article posts. I still need to add and edit some details, so I will work on that until the final brief. Please look forward to the final product of this magazine, which will be posted soon.
Welcome guys to part two of the cover design, today I will show the final look of my cover. In the first part of this post I had placeholders for where the information will be, but this post has the placeholders filled out.
Here's the final look of my cover:
That's all for this post, hope you're excited for the final look of my brief!!
Welcome to part one of the cover design blog post. This part is showing the layout with the image I picked. The information has not been filled in yet but it gives an idea of where the information will be placed.
Hope this showed my layout plan being executed with the image added now compared to the layout design post. Anyways, stay tuned for part 2 of my cover design with the final look of the cover!
Hey guys, in this post it is a continuation of the last post about the photos I took for the magazine. This post will show the other 3 photos that will be used in the magazine and where in the magazine it will be used.
Photo #4:
This image is another photo of other pastries from the restaurant. This photo will be used near the end of the feature article. In my article, I wanted to talk about how it is also a deli and bakery using a photo showing what they offer. This helps support the content by showing what it looks like in the restaurant so that readers can understand what the article is discussing.
Photo #5:
This image is an overlook of the food ordered by me and my friend. It will be used near the beginning of the feature article to display everything ordered, showing how it looked.
Photo #6
This image is a larger look of the chicken sandwich ordered by my friend. It is in landscape mode, showing the full dish look. This will be used to show the dish that will be talked about in the article.
These photos were more in the moment but I still focused back to some conventions needed for food photography. These photos utilized natural lighting to help in enhancing the food displayed. Other than that, I hope you liked the photos and I'm excited to show the final product soon!
In this post I will show some of the photos I took for this magazine and where they will be used. In total there are 6 photos used in this magazine but for this post we are going to look at the first 3 photos. These photos were all taken with my digital camera. If you want to know more details about the digital camera, you can look back on my project proposal post. Now let's look at the first 3 photos!
Photo #1:
This image is one of the dishes I ordered at the restaurant. The dish is their chicken sandwich, which is considered one of their popular dishes. This photo will be the cover photo for the magazine.
Photo #2:
This image is a display of pastries served at the restaurant since it is not only a restaurant. This image will be used for my table of contents. Since this restaurant is also a deli and bakery, I wanted to show that somewhere in the magazine; I thought it would look best on the table of contents since it is visually appealing.
Photo #3:
This photo is of the grilled chicken dish that I ordered. This image will be used in the layout of my feature article to work with my review about the restaurant. By taking this image it shows the food that was reviewed and will be talked about in the feature article.
This post today explained my first three photos and how I will be using them in my magazine. This helps in showing progress in my production to help me understand where it’ll go for the final product. Well, that’s all for this post so tune in for part two of my photograph post!
Hey guys, today's post will be about the layout look for my table of contents. The white space is where the background image will be which is shown in the photography posts. Here is my layout for the table of contents.
For this layout, the blue text box shows where the information for the table of contents will be. The rest of the white space will be the photo that was talked about in the first photography post. I will also place a white box behind the blue text box so that it is readable.
As you can see, this layout is pretty basic as the background image will take up the double spread, so the layout remains simple. Hopefully I'll post the final look of my table of contents soon.
Hey guys and welcome to another production blog post. This post is going to state the names of the sections and how it looks overall in the magazine. This is not fully completed yet but it can help get an idea of the sections names.
Text Info (section names/page number):
Table of Contents
Tips & Tricks 4
Food Find of the Week 8
Quick Bites, Big Flavor 12
Quality vs. Quantity 16
Fusion Flavors 20
The Art of Plating 24
From Abuela's Kitchen 28
Verde & Vibrant 32
In the Chef’s Words 36
Kitchen Techniques 40
Sip & Savor 44
The Next Bite 48
Flavors by the Region 52
Designed to Dine 56
Index 60
Here is how it looks in the final look of the table of contents:
Hey guys, today's post is about my feature article. This post will focus on my rough draft of my article. It has been edited a little bit so it is likely to stay the same or be edited a little more just to check the flow of my writing.
Rough Draft:
Hey guys for this production post, I want to focus on my layout design across my magazine. So let's look at the layout for the table of contents and the feature article.
Table of Contents:
I plan to use one photo to cover both pages to help it look cohesive with the final look of the table of contents. As well, I will place a white text box behind the list of section names and pages so that there is no conflict with not being able to read it because of the photo.
Feature Article:
This layout is to focus on a restaurant review which is why I put these placeholders for the information where they are. This could be updated based on the length of my feature article or if I need more images to support the article.
This wraps up our post about layout design by showing how I broke the page up so that everything works together. Stay tuned for posts about these layouts being filled in with information for the magazine!
Hey guys, welcome to another production post. Today's post is about my style guide. So let's not waste any time and get into it!!
Here are some of the fonts I used in this magazine and where it was used:
Fonts:
- Lucida Sans
- Used in Feature Article for text
- Lucida Sans (Typewriter)
- Used in Feature Article
- Berlin Sans
- Used in Cover and Table of Contents
- Gil Sans Ultra Bold Condensed
- Used in Cover, Table of Contents, and Feature Article
In terms of color palette, I am keeping it simple with white and black, but also including a color to make the magazine stick out. For that, I want to use the color red, preferably a darker shade of red.
Overall, I choose to stick to around three to four fonts to not distract too much from the magazine, but enough to show contrast between topics. With that, I'm going to end this post here. Please look forward to spotting my font choices in my magazine!!
Hey guys, today I will be talking about my plan for my cover and inspo I got for it. Let's get into it!
First, I want the cover to have this information placed on the layout:
Brand Name: Sofi's Spreads
Title: Food Finds
Issue/Date: Issue 1 | April 2026
Coverline (feature article): Food Find of the Week: Miga's Steakhouse
Caption of picture: Crispy Chicken Burger
Puff: Tips and Tricks to keep your kitchen clean
Coverline #2: What makes a good restaurant to eat at?
In terms of inspo, I think one is nice because of its simplicity. The color choice is only three colors, keeping it from looking overcrowded. They also place all the information to match the size conventions, with the title being the largest text on the cover.
This concludes the cover design post. I can't wait to start designing soon, hope that it looks good in the end. That's all for today, bye!!
Sources:
Hey guys, welcome to another planning post. This post is backpacking off of the style guide post a little bit since they are focusing on the visuals of the magazine. With that said, let's look at some of the layout designs already.
Here is the layout that I planned out in InDesign. I took inspiration from the examples below while also putting things that I thought would work for my article, like a pros and cons list.
Inspo:
These layouts both incorporate these elements and are expanded so that it works for a double page spread. Hope this helped show the vision I have for my feature article layout look. Stay tuned for more!!
Sources:
https://creativemediabtec.wordpress.com/2021/01/20/codes-conventions-article-page-layouts/ (Article page layout)
Hey guys, and welcome to another planning post! This post is going to go through my style guide for my magazine. This will include things like font, font size, and color palette. So, let’s get into the choice of fonts for this magazine.
For font choices, InDesign offers many options. Here are some lists of choices they offer with some of them highlighted. They are highlighted as options because they look simple and readable.
In terms of color palette, I want to stick to black and white to keep it simple, but I also want to add some color into the design. So, I think red would be a bold color to grab the readers attention. Here are some shades of red that I would want to use for inspo. I want to use this inspo to help in narrowing down the shade of red that will be used in my magazine.
Overall, these two points help me start creating the style guide that will be in this magazine. I think that is going to be it for this blog post, so stay tuned to how it looks like during the production phase.
Here are my Creative Critical Reflections for my magazine brief: CCR #1 How does your product use or challenge conventions, and how does it ...
