Fresh Magazine cover
From my fifth semester, in my publication design 2 course, the magazine cover was probably one of my favourite projects to make that semester.
We had to make an original magazine cover for this project. It could be anything we wanted and I really wanted to draw everything myself! I really enjoyed making it and I even have a print of it in my room as a poster.
Project Type
Magazine cover designs
Tools Used
Sketchbook
Procreate
InDesign
Fresh magazine sketch
These are the inital sketches I drew up for the magazine cover.
The final Magazine designs
These are the final designs of magazine cover. I also made a french version for one of my french classes. I redrew the logo so it can be a french translation of "Fresh".
Fresh magazine mockups English and French
Here's some cool mockups of the magazine covers I made! I really like how it looks and I could definitly see it on an actual magazine someday!
Magazine demographic and design decisions
The design of my magazine cover is completely drawn by me. The demographic I had on my mind when making this magazine cover was a teen demographic. Roughly around the ages of 16 to 22. Youngsters who like to listen to funk and punk music that like to do graffiti and wear baggy clothing. A very specific demographic but I think I nailed the design with the character design of Mic and their fresh and punk like vibe. I wanted to create an illustration with a funky and graffiti looking aesthetic. I was inspired by a previous student’s design where they made a punk/pop-up aesthetic magazine cover. Instead of using photography images in clever ways, I drew everything on my own. I tried to replicate a graffiti and sketchy style into my illustration piece and I think I pulled it off pretty well. I added a little touch of paint splatters around the outline of the characters, icons and even the logo and paint strokes to make it more authentic to the theme as if it was sprayed on the walls of a back alley or a run down building.