Artical

We are to make a double page spread of facing pages of a magazine on a chosen topic with the first 200 to 400 words and as well as a web version of it in the size of an iPad screen.

The topic I chose

I chose the topic “Are videogames the final frontier of design?”. I chose this topic as it’s very close to me, this is because I both play video games and I am also a designer. It’s an article written about how the design in gaming have changed in the modern age. How people start to use “Narrative architecture” to give the gamers a sense of achievement through landscape rather than levelling up.

Research

For research, I investigated different version of gaming magazines and how they are laid out. This way I can look into the different methods of how the gaming magazines make the pages look more interesting for the readers.

There are some double-page spreads that had one whole image covering both pages, and there are some that had everything tilted to one side. Some looked calmer than others.

I went ahead and marked out different lines on the page to show how the pages are laid out, this inclues how many colums they have, what are the margins and the gutter. Every page has their own unique grid, how the texts are laid out, how many columns there are, How the image of laid out. To see all the text and image line up, help me to understand how the will page spread magazine produced.

So subsequently I started designing my own double-page spreads. I first started by just drawing them out on my sketch book, the different variations of lay out I can have, and how to line everything line up.

During this process, I have realised that using “leading line” is a very effective way to grab readers attention. <provide one example> “Leading line” is a method used where you are using elements on the page to point where you want the reader to look, therefore naturally getting the reader to read all the double page spread.

In this case, your eyes naturally look from the top left-hand corner, so you read the left-hand side page, then you look at what the character in the centre is looking at. Both of his eyes and his guns are pointing at the nest page across making you look.

To make further progress I looked for some images that I can use in my magazine page. For this task I found difficult, this was due to the “creative common” (CC) legislation. This means I can only use a selective section of images online to put in to my magazine pages. But with the help of a few website, I manage to find some images I could use.

I then drawn out a few more page layout that I could use on my sketch book. I was putting myself in the positions of the readers as I did the sketching, this way I can see how the lay out is working or is it not working.

Final Design

Th e image I got inspired me to have the title on the right-hand side. My basic page layout is the “Pac-man” is “Eating” the dots and leading reader’s eyes from the top left to the right-hand side of the page where they will find the title of the article. Then directly underneath they will find a pulled quote. This way the ready then gain interest on the main text, to help that affect the image of the person in VR headset is looking at the main text. Therefore that should lead the reader to the body of text at the end.

PDFDouble page spread

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