Layout concepts
Now that we have finished the shoot, we’ve started to look into layout ideas and considering how we want to portray the images within the format of the publication.
Being an ex student of Graphic Design, I was quite excited to progress to this stage of the assignment, as I already have a fundamanetal understanding of effective layout use and typography I was thinking of ways we could incorporate our images into a design.
Samantha had recently brought Volt magazine to Gavin and mine’s attention. I had never really heard of it before but I became very interested in it straight away. Printed at around A3 in size on a nice, semi gloss paper, the photographs are all very large and look quite spectacular in this format. The attention to detail is really captured in the way the publication is presented and one thing I really love is the actual design of the publication itself. There is a lot of use of negative/white space around the images which are commonly printed singularly to fill the majority of the pages. There are also a lot of examples that use really nice, modern looking typography, almost always sans serif fonts, printed quite large and very minimal. Rather than distract from the images, I think the use of typography and design really help to push the effect of the photography (which is clearly the intention of the magazine, as is any other fashion/photography publication).
Due to the fact that our shoot has a very ‘white’ theme to it, we will most certainly be using the influence of Volt magazine to inspire our own layout ideas.
