Magazine Project Evaluation

1. Write an explanation of your brief - what did you have to do? How did you come up with the ideas for this project? 

The brief for my magazine project was to create a culture magazine that would be printed and presented as a professional outcome. To come up with the ideas for my project, I experimented with different layouts and decided which layouts would be best for my magazine, having taken inspiration from the magazines I have read and enjoyed reading.

2. Write about the creative 'journey' of the project - how did the project and ideas evolve from start to finish through experimentation and research?

At the beginning of the project I had quite limited ideas about what style or aspect of culture I should focus on. Because of this I created a culture mind map for my magazine, covering music, fashion, travel and food, and I tried to bring out ideas that would help me develop my project to a professionally styled magazine. I decided that I should stick to one of my main interests which is music, more specifically punk music. From this point I decided to not only focus on punk music but also integrate aspects of punk culture from different time periods/areas. Still struggling with inspiration for this topic I created a MoodBoard about punk, the images for which I sourced from Google images. At this point all of my creative juices were flowing, and I felt inspired to create an attractive, professional image, and started developing my ideas for each aspect of the magazine; for example the title, the front page image and so on.

3. Who inspired your final outcomes? - You MUST talk about who has inspired your work - include images and links where possible. 

My final outcomes where inspired by many different sources. I used inspiration from underground punk 'zines' for the layout and general black and white theme of my magazine. I also used inspiration from Oscar Wilson for my Front page image, from his work on calligrams for london tourism and images, and I used a lot of the inspiration

4. What do you think you have done well? What has worked? Are you happy with your final outcomes?

5. What do you think you could have improved in your final outcome? - you need to talk about something, nobody is perfect!

6. Conclusion - overall how did you find the project? Would you like to use any of the skills or techniques in the future?