‘I drew inspiration from vintage travel posters, wine trains, and the ever-alluring first class life’ you write, so I am assuming the mock-up origination and artwork is yours? It is so full of colour and space.
I love it and had I the money I would give you a commission to give the cover and layout of my paperbagstory booklets, of which I print 3-5 of each only for the cafe I write/begin my short stories in, a makeover. They are A5 page size (21cm h x 14.85cm w), but I will, with your permission take inspiration from you and acknowledge you on the inside back cover. A fascinating post I enjoyed reading.🐰
High praise, thank you! Yes all the artwork in this post is mine. I found free magazine templates online that I could use to display my work in, so that they looked like real magazine articles.
But I ended up spending the most time on the text layouts, since I am not a layout designer. I wanted it to look good in the mockups, but it took a lot of trial and error. I must give layout designers due credit.... Such tedious work!
Thanks for the advice. I know how time consuming it is. Susan and I published two local history periodicals and a freezine for our community centre, plus Labour Party ward newsletter with Susan doing all the work (1984-2009) never having the space we saw in a couple of American periodicals to which we subscribed: Metropolitan Home and Architectural Digest. Both were lessons in how use space we never had, thanks to having. tight budgets 🐰
I love seeing your process! So many good sketches that I couldn’t guess which one you went with for the final but was delighted with each one! My favorite has to be the family around the maggi bottle :)
‘I drew inspiration from vintage travel posters, wine trains, and the ever-alluring first class life’ you write, so I am assuming the mock-up origination and artwork is yours? It is so full of colour and space.
I love it and had I the money I would give you a commission to give the cover and layout of my paperbagstory booklets, of which I print 3-5 of each only for the cafe I write/begin my short stories in, a makeover. They are A5 page size (21cm h x 14.85cm w), but I will, with your permission take inspiration from you and acknowledge you on the inside back cover. A fascinating post I enjoyed reading.🐰
High praise, thank you! Yes all the artwork in this post is mine. I found free magazine templates online that I could use to display my work in, so that they looked like real magazine articles.
But I ended up spending the most time on the text layouts, since I am not a layout designer. I wanted it to look good in the mockups, but it took a lot of trial and error. I must give layout designers due credit.... Such tedious work!
Thanks for the advice. I know how time consuming it is. Susan and I published two local history periodicals and a freezine for our community centre, plus Labour Party ward newsletter with Susan doing all the work (1984-2009) never having the space we saw in a couple of American periodicals to which we subscribed: Metropolitan Home and Architectural Digest. Both were lessons in how use space we never had, thanks to having. tight budgets 🐰
I love seeing your process! So many good sketches that I couldn’t guess which one you went with for the final but was delighted with each one! My favorite has to be the family around the maggi bottle :)