For the basis of my magazine cover, I had chosen my topic to be about my design internship. To showcase who I am, I put me on the cover. As well as three small pictures. The first is representing my sorority life- which takes up a big part of my time, the second is an image that I created for my Internship at College Hill Custom Threads, and the third is a picture of a couple of my friends and I, that take up a big part of my life! And I had my title as my name. After the feedback that I got from my peers. Which was to change my font to have it more personalized, to change the title of my magazine to have it be easier to read, add text bubbles to my smaller three pictures, and change the background.

As you can see in my final draft, I blurred the background to make me be the center focus to the background. I didn’t want to change it entirely just because I really like the contrast of the greens with the flowers, so I did end up liking the effect of it being blurred. I added small text to my pictures to make it seem more like a magazine, and I changed the font of my entire project to something a little more fun. Lastly, I changed the title of the magazine from my name to something else that represents me, my age. I thought that would be a fun way to tie in myself to the title.

Again, all photos are my own and all of the creative credit goes to myself!

For this project, I decided to create a magazine cover! This project relates perfectly to my topic because my topic is about my design internship journey, so designing a magazine cover showcasing myself would be the perfect thing to represent my topic. Some things that inspired me were typical magazine covers, regardless of what topic they were. I noticed that magazines typically all had the same layout logistics. For example, a title, cover image, then smaller images and blurbs of text on the front. The research I did for this was looking online on google and Pinterest, as well as looking at magazine covers in store. The significance of the elements in my design are very particular. The title is my name and represents me, the cover image is myself. As well as three smaller images on it. The first is representing my sorority life- which takes up a big part of my time, the second is an image that I created for my Internship at College Hill Custom Threads, and the third is a picture of a couple of my friends and I, that take up a big part of my life!

First off, I thought about some of the things, other than my internship that were very important to my daily life. After I came up with the two categories, I just looked through my pictures till I found some that represented them well! Some techniques that I used were the text tool for the title. Then I used the mask technique to place me over the text, but still leaving the background intact. I also used the cropping features with the layers, as well as the borders and drop shadow around the small pictures. All the materials that I used in this project were my own as well. 

Since my theme for the project for this class is going to my internship journey, I think I will be doing a magazine cover showcasing who I am as well as a project that I have completed.

This is an design that I created for College Hill Custom Threads here in Pullman.

This is my own picture of my sorority’s bid day this past year.

This is my own picture of my friends and I!

-Calista Flynn

Here’s my finished tutorials!