Project 5: Dwell Magazine

Project 5: Dwell Magazine

InDesign; Cover and Double Page Spread

OBJECTIVES

• To develop an understanding and be able to utilize the tools of Adobe InDesign.
• To explore design, creativity, and composition by composing a 4-page magazine spread.

Assignment

Redesign a Dwell Magazine Article, which can be found here – http://www.dwell.com/magazine/

Design a Four page magazine style spread using Adobe InDesign. Choose an article from the archived magazines that they have listed. Many of the articles come with a slide show, in which you must use the images for your design spread. Choose an article that has at least several paragraphs in it so that you have text in which to work with.

The magazine page size is (8.5″ x 11.0″). Feel free to use a physical Magazine (glossies) as a sample and inspiration for your layouts. Copy and paste text and images from Dwell.com, adding them into your project file and place them into InDesign. You will need to develop, create, and upload a four page magazine spread in PDF format to the dropbox.

The specifics: layout needs to include a minimum of 6 images to relate to the idea your are presenting, and at least 5 bodies of text, titles, and/or other text based information of various size type and font sizes. You may need to use Adobe Illustrator, and/or Adobe Photoshop along with the skills you developed on the previous two projects, for all of your imagery.

Your Final Sequence Needs to Include:

• Minimum 6 images for the layout.
• Text overlapping an image or object.
• Text around an object or image.
• Utilize a grid and columns within the spread.
• Sidebar
• Call-outs

Optional:

• Cut-out
• Opacity
• Folio headers

Design Development:

1. Develop two (2) different solutions for the 4 page layouts. Meet with the instructor to choose the best idea. Ultimately you will choose one for revisions and final production. Each version must be dynamically different and unique from each other.
2. Spreads need to utilize appropriate imagery that is bitmapped and/or vector based.
3. The DWELL masthead MUST be drawn and digitized in an Illustrator (AI file) and placed in you design appropriately.
4. Use text from an article at Dwell.com for the article.
5. Pages do not need to be numbered.