I started the designing process for my magazine cover by drawing a very basic mock focusing on the placements of each component of the magazine. Attached below is my digital sketch of the cover layout. As you can see I didn’t attach any sort of visuals on the document as I wanted it to be more of a template for the product rather than a draft for the final product. This sketch helped me to understand more about the spacings and placements of each component. I also used this template as my brain dump document by annotating on it before I started drawing up the first drafts.
After drawing up the sketch I moved on to designing my first draft for the magazine cover. I used Canva to design my first draft. I downloaded some images from Pinterest that fit the aesthetic of my magazine and had celebrity models in poses that I had thought of featuring on the cover and used them when I edited the first draft. As I was using a free version of the software there were a lot of limitations when it came to fonts and editing options. Attached below is the first magazine cover draft I designed on Canva.
This magazine cover has a very minimalist, dark blue, pink, purple aesthetic to it, in order to represent the Night Court. The masthead says ‘Scigra’ in cursive shaded silver writing, to go with the colour palette. The scrap line includes ‘fashion, beauty and books’ to give a very straightforward view of the contents of the magazine. I haven’t yet pondered on what the exact cover line should be but I have laid them out. The picture I’ve used is taken from Pinterest as it was very much similar to the cover pose I had thought of: A medium shot of a male and female dressed in the outfits put together making indirect mode of conversation.
Although I was able to design the draft I had missed out on some components that are essential in the magazine. And my teacher gave me suggestions on the strapline - to change the strapline so that it widens more prospects for the future issues of the magazine. She also advised me to move the ‘Sri Lanka’ to the upper part of the cover near the masthead. She also wanted me to include a dateline and issue to complete the masthead, barcode etc. She also wanted me to work on the coverlines to include something that is unique about the beauty industry in Sri Lanka like Spa Ceylon for instance. I was also asked to redesign the layout for the quote - by adding a thumbnail or a visual of the book jacket on the cover itself.
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