Inspiration

References

‘The face’ magazine by Neville Brody (1990)

I constantly referenced my work throughout my project and looking at designers such as Neville Brody for direction, he is perhaps the best known graphic designer of his generation with work on ‘The Face’ magazine (1981-1986) as well as ‘Arena’ magazine (1987-1990). Brody is recognised as one to the most influential graphic designers of the late 20th century, with a post modern style. Well known for his use of typography, Brody’s opinion was that people read magazines in a different manner from the way they read books, his idea was that they didn’t read it straight through from the beginning to the end. Readers tend to go back and forth picking out the interesting bits. Brody focused largely on typography with the desire to highlight interesting sections of articles and attract the attention of the reader. Keeping in mind Brody’s idea of attracting attention, this encouraged me to spend time designing eye catching layouts for the pages with strong messages that I wanted readers to stop on whilst they flicked through the magazine.

 National Geographic (2011)

Theres nothing I appreciate more than good photography, Instagram is an incredible app that allows me to follow my favourite artists, designers and photographers. One person who has been a huge influence to me and my work has been Jimmy Chin, a professional climber, mountaineer, skier, director and photographer. He is best known for capturing adventure sport athletes on epic rock faces or mountain tops, it was his jaw dropping scenery shots that inspired me for this project. It reminded me that although the sport is fun to take part in the scenery that you get is just as rewarding when your on the top of the mountain. He is best know for his sponsorship with The North Face athlete team and has been featured both in front of and behind the camera in numerous publications, including National Geographic, Outside and Men’s Journal. His photography is intense and daring, outspoken and challenging, he strives for a greater understanding of what we can push ourselves to and what we can consider a comfortable boundary.

‘Cereal’ Vol 3 (2013)

My uncle is a designer and a person I appreciate the guidance of, over the years he has directed me down the path of many designers and inspirational artists, one editorial piece that he has shed light on is the magazine ‘Cereal’. Published twice a year, it has been divided into chapters based on cities, filled with stories about, places, people and products, along with striking photography. The particular one that I was most found of was Volume 3 the cool calming colour blends well with the minimal style of the entire magazine and their constant use of negative space is an excellent way to capture the attention of the viewer, when there is balanced negative space it allows for effortlessly evaluation and appreciation of design.

Walk around Drumnaph

Drumnaph Community Nature Reserve

Drumnaph Community Nature Reserve consists of a mix of habitats and three walking trails to choose from. The Woodland Trust owns approximately 80 acres of Drumnaph Wood, which is located to the eastern side of the reserve. This section contains both ancient woodland and newly planted woodland as well as some wetland habitats. In early 2012 an opportunity arose to secure the purchase of an additional 130 acres in the western section of the reserve, which includes a patchwork of ecological habitats including ancient woodland, wildflower meadows, ancient grazing habitats and wetlands.

Articles

I found a really interesting article online about how people in the wild rely too much on technology and the stories that have come from these life changing or life ending stories. It was an interesting read, extreme but relevant to the topic I am focusing on, even though I am not dealing with a life ending issue in the Sperrins it was the message that stood out to me the most; Our Reliance on Technology makes the backcountry (or outdoors) more dangerous.

Also the website Outside Online is a great way for me to stay connected with what's new in the outdoors and interesting articles that have been written about educating ourselves to be safer and more clever in the great outdoors, just like the article above.

Beginning digital layout

I am working within Illustrator as my software tool for this project, I am confident using it and that takes away a lot of the pressure when you are confident with what you are using. Above I have my two page spread for the 'Outdoor lifestyle' chapter within the magazine, I contemplated using other images for this but I absolutely love this image, I am also using this image as my cover photo so it's nice to be able to show the full image inside the magazine. This layout works really well for both chapter pages, the white box around both pieces of text with grey text.

Youtube interviews

I follow a lot of Youtube channels, from extreme sports to film makers, daily Vloggers to designers, I LOVE Youtube. The channel's that I really enjoy following are;

Patagonia
Salomon Trail Running 
The North Face
JacksGap
Fun for Louis
Casey Neistat

This channels help me to get inspired to design, travel, exercise they help me to get motivated and to create. I also follow Youtube creators that have interviews, a few from the list above have great powerful interviews and stories that help when I am planning my questions and preparing for my interview. One channel that has stood out to me the most in a channel run by a girl by the name of Sara Dietschy I stumbled across her channel in recent months when I found a video of hers. 

Sara has an episode on her channel called Creative Spaces TV, she interviews a bunch of creative people and how they work in the space that they have and what their career is. It inspired me so much when I was having a lull moment when I needed some inspiration and motivation to do my interviews. 

This video really inspired me to work on my project.

Other videos that I loved, although I am not making a video I have used the tips and trick during my own interviews.

The Ultimate Fan
On the Road
Of Fells and Hills
Kroger's Canteen

Musician's Extra Footage
Photographer Full Interview

Updated front cover

I originally used the front DK Semarang for the logo on the front cover of my magazine but the more I looked at it the more I grew to dislike it. So I went back into Illustrator to edit it, I was happy with the image and felt that it was strong and worked very well I then began to work with the type face and used Gotham Thin, it looked a little too thin but I didn't like the look of this font in regular so I made a sample copy with a line underneath the font. It was this sample that I asked my class mates for their opinion on. 

First design:

This was the edited version of my front cover after I made the changes that the guys made, I tried the thin box around the type, just like Adam had suggested but I felt that a thicker font was going to work better without the line.

Now I have my finished front cover; I wanted to keep the text white for a clean sophisticated look, I felt that you could read it and although it is not the easiest to read straight away that allows for curiosity and keeps the reader interested to open and read on. The sky is dark enough for the clean white to stand on its own without a box or line now that I made the text thicker.