Week 9

Magazine layout 1: Diametric Expressionism

Craft

Using InDesign, a new document was opened under a letter size setting for a 6 page spread. This image represents the 2nd and 3rd page of the overall spread. First, the box tool was used to create a box where the Diametric Expressionism picture was "placed" into the box by selecting the file tab and the "place" option. This option opened a new window where I was able to search for the image and place it into the box. From there I was able to size the box by using my black arrow and dragging the corners of the box. Then in order to get my image to perfectly line up within the frame of my box I left clicked, selected the fitting option, and the"fit content to frame" option. The I selected the text box again to add text which I used the text or "T" tab to do so. I repeated the same process for the two smaller images that I used for the Diametric Expressionism image. Finally, I drew a rectangle with the box tool, filled it with the color black and moved it to the background of the right side of the spread.

Concept

This layout plays on the style which incorporates opposites. The most repetitive and obvious opposites in this piece are the contrasts (contrasts in color the black and white background, text, and images against the background and scale text and images).

Composition

The first thing that someone may notice when looking at this spread in a magazine is the white background of page 1 against the black background of page 2. The dominant contrast of the two pages draws the reader in; even the white words on the back page and the black words on the white page because highly contrasted. The use of the black box on the white background adds to the coordination and relationship between the two pages in the spread. (This was mostly intentional). The repetitions of black and white cause an intense interest and a sharpness about the spread. The pop of color from the orange Fire piece centered on the black page also adds a lower form of contrast than the white; yet on the white page the mixture of the black and hue of oranges, yellows, greens, and purples creates a mixture of high and low contrast. Again, the repetition of the mixture of high and low contrast carries on in the black box atop with the author on the white page. The scale of the first picture is much larger than that of the second and third pictures, which makes the second feel more of a feature and the first the focus of the article. The name of the article is in the larger scaled picture and repeated as the title of the article, in which one can assume its the title, not because of the picture, but because of the change in font style use for the title and its scale in contrast to the other text.