Mason Maestro - Magazine
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This customer received 62 magazine designs from 9 designers. They chose this magazine design from CENTERSPREAD as the winning design.
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Magazine Design Brief
Our client would like a magazine designed for a conceptual novelty based on unconventional views on contemporary issues, including; finance, religion, politics etc.!
The novelty includes 1 main article, supporting images and 12 short poems.
We would like the designer to create page vectors, borders, fonts and other layout design elements.
In the first stage of the competition we request:
Magazine layout - 6 pages( 4 article variations based on article content and 2 poem page designs)
We would like to see high impact, striking vectors and design concepts to compliment the article content. See attached bullet point guide to article to help design page themes.
COMPANY INFO
Writer, poet, researcher and commentator. Our client is interested in sharing art and issues he believes in. Our client would like to design one magazine issue first but has a collection of material to produce a series of magazines in the future. So he is looking to establish a potentially long-term partnership with designer(s).
Updates
Hello all, Welcome to this design competition hosted by us Stratus Results Inbound Marketing and Design, China.
Look forward to receiving your designs and feedback.
OC
Added Monday, December 09, 2013
Good new guys, our client has selected a series of images to include in this article. Focus on images related to 'Doctors destroy health' and 'Food destroys health'. A centerpage spread design is ok for now.
Added Wednesday, December 18, 2013
Merry Christmas,
We have uploaded three images from a magazine our client likes. Please note the border and image styling of this magazine, could you try to include some of the design elements.
Regards,
OC
Added Friday, December 27, 2013
Target Market(s)
Quick and easy to read, coffee time magazine. Target Market: Male 40yrs+, Intellectual, Open Minded.
Industry/Entity Type
Finance
Font styles to use
Look and feel
Each slider illustrates characteristics of the customer's brand and the style your logo design should communicate.
Elegant
Bold
Playful
Serious
Traditional
Modern
Personable
Professional
Feminine
Masculine
Colorful
Conservative
Economical
Upmarket
Requirements
Must have
- Main Article and Poetry: Space for 1 -2 images per page.
A subtle design feature that connects each page.
Primary colors: Jade Green and some Grayscale.
Secondary Colors: 3rd and 4th color open to designers preference.
Page Dimensions : 7.5in height, 7in width.
Articles: Same color theme, different layout and vector choice, same font color and size.
Poetry: Some design creative freedom. Focus on creating a unique title font incorporating the theme of the poem, Poetry TITLE font must be made a feature design element (poem identity)
Font: See National Geographic magazine styling
Columns: Single or multiple.
All vectors and images should be sourced from design crowd.
Nice to have
- Images/pictures that connect with article topic and align with color theme.
Should not have
- Avoid repetition of page design. To do this follow the idea of each paragraph (see attached breakdown)