Front Cover Development

This is my development for my front cover

Reflection is one with my development

Exampples I found on the Internet

Rough Sketch

This is one of my first sketches thumbnail sketches. It's suppose to have the main Magazine name at the top and the main cover line underneath the The name of the Magazine. The line in the middle is suppose to represent the border between the sky and the ocean/beach. Since my art skills aren't too good, I think it 

This is a rough draft of what  my cover would be like,  I decided to change one of the texts to the right since I don't thin that it would be as visible if it was placed on the bottom left. In the original sketch, there was suppose to be some objects in the water, like people and boats scattered around, although I didn't include it in the rough sketch, since my artistic skills are limited.

I added a white border and began to try working on it on photoshop

This batch is my very first attempt at designing the front cover of my magazine I decided to start off with a white border, but then realized it didn't look too good. So then I tried using tan as my friend suggested, but i also didn't think it looked good. Eventually I landed on green from some magazine cover's I saw on the internet which looked somewhat decent.

Eventually i developed on this and began to add the coverlines. I used an extreme long shot, to show the scenery of the beach as well as the boats, this makes the viewer able to see Bali's scenery. I've attempted to capture the Bali's beach, since it's most known for having nice looking beaches. I thought the coverline needed to be readable so I made it a vibrant colour so that you can easily see it in front of the background. I then added a dark "Bali" text and put it behind the boats on the beach, from this point I just needed to complete my coverlines, but i still feel unsatisfied.

Those are a handful of typefaces and fonts that I found fitting for my front cover. I Decided to mix the 1st and 2nd typeface as my Masthead. For the front cover, I used the 2nd typeface for buzzwords and decided that the 4th typeface would fit as a subheading for my article, and the 5th would be for my article text. I didn't use the 3rd example as I feel like it wouldn't fit with the sleek look that I have for my magazine I chose these typefaces since they are more simplistic fit the convention of typefaces in travel magazines being more simple and less flashy. this also makes the viewer of the magazine to focus more on the scenery instead of the text, since it's kept simple.

After feedback from my associates, they mentioned that the colours didn't work well, I agreed with them and decided to redo my front cover, now with more knowledge and trying out one of the example as inspiration. The colour white is a safe colour to use since, it compliments most things. The white colour also keeps the cover feel more modern, since less vibrant colours are being used in modern projectsI began with making "hopper" a little different from "island" in "Island Hopper" so that it doesn't look too boring. I kept the boats so that it can use blocking to block a small part of the the "BALI" text to make it less boring. I then added the thin square border to shape the margins inside the box. I then added a white "BALI" text behind boats and added the coverlines. Eventually I thought that there wasn't enough space so I enlarge the box giving it more space. I then finally added a small shadow on my coverline so that it's readable, as well as added the barcode and altering the recoloring the image to look more appealing.

My teacher recommended that I add a price somewhere on the cover. So I decided to place it near the bar code since it looked like an available spot to put the price.