Final Magazine

Here is my final submission in the form of a flip book magazine.

REFLECTION:
Reflecting on this, it was a breeze. I used FlippingBook, download the canva design into a PDF using, and then uploaded it onto FlippingBook. Piece of cake! However I had a little problem combining the PDFs into one flip book. Other than that, everythings fine. Oh, and I made two designs because I can. 

A few weeks has passed since I wrote the reflection above and many things I've gotten wrong and a probem came accross my path. Turns out I've got choose only one design for my finale magazine, and the flippingbook website betrayed me. I lost access to my flip book, so I just used another flip book website creator for my magazine (Heyzine).

Critical Self Reflection

This is my finale critical self reflection.

REFLECTION:
A reflection for a reflection, nice. This critical reflection was very reflective for me as I reflect on everything I did and analyse what was the purpose of the things I did. 

Critical Self Reflection

Finale Design Decision

DILEMA! I had to choose only one finale magazine design and I had two designs that I liked to use, but I can't do both. 

REFLECTION:
I decided to choose design one after some time thinking, as it is more alligned to what I inteded my magazine to look and feel like based on my target audience, which are young individuals, so I choose the design that has more color as it is extra friendly and interesting for the young mind, meaning it is extra appealing.

Design One

Design Two

After reviewing it with the help of my classmate whom I called out for assistance, we decided that design one would be the better option for my magazine. When reviewing it my classmate said that both of my magazine looked like restaurant menu, especially the second design, so I did minor adjusment on my first design to make it less menu-like. However, my teacher joined in our discussion and said that it's fine because it fits the context anyway. I still kept the adjustment (I made the masthead larger 2x), and made design one as the official finale design. 

Typeface + Color Research

 I did research on the typefaces and colors that suits best for my magazine.

Reflection:
To be brutally honest researching about this is unecesarry for me personally. I like to believe that I'm a creative thinker since birth, so I just knew what to use given the target. However, I also like to think otherwise that I may be wrong and there are better alternatives I could use that'll make my work 10x better, which is why I did my research extensively. 

Colors

I decided of combining all three types colors, warm, cool, and neutral for the pallet of both magazine designs. Having the neutral as the background color, as it serves as the backdrop in design. Cool and warm colors mixed as the decor of the magazine nicely correlates well with the idea of my magazine which is professionalism but energetic and fun as it targets young individuals through their parents. 

Typefaces

I choose a professional but not boring font --> check on this post

Magazine (Front, Content, Doublepage): Research and Development 

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