3.19.2008

Africa Designs

This week I pretty much worked on my feature from last week. I have to say this has been the biggest challenge design-wise that I've ever had. I like how the spread initially turned out but after all the revisions, I have to say that it's not one of my favorite designs anymore.

Initially we started with:





I have to admit that with this draft, I had no clue of how I wanted to arrange the photos since I thought that each were equally important. This will change in later editions. Matt, the editor of Vox Magazine, commented that he liked the hard hat and hammer, but then they wondered if this could have been misleading to the reader since no one was wearing hard hats in the photos. So this was a factor I decided to change. Plus the editors felt like we needed something to identify place or location.









Yeah this probably won't be a piece that I will put into my portfolio.

3 comments:

Anne said...

Amazing how many changes our design go through, isn't it? I think you came up with some good solutions, though, and you can always show the progression in your portfolio.

LED said...

I think your feature looks good. I like the one with the hammer and the nail in the outline of Africa.

becky sternberg. said...

oooh i like the third one. i think that is the same on Lindsey is talking about. It hits the nail on the head of what the story is about yet is subtle at the same time. It's also more artistic than the ones with the hard hat.