Chosen Credits-Page

In the end we decided that this was the best version; it is clean and still quirky.

The text in the middle is from Irina Bucsa who wrote it for us with the theme obsessions. I thought it would not look nice with an empty white space in the corner next to our names so I decided to add the text there. It also goes along with the 'storyline' of the newspaper, continuous search for escape.

End page: Credits

We chose our final page to be a "CREDITS PAGE" , to list the names of the people who we have collaborated with and used in our images.

This one I also had to do; I made a few rough drafts but they looked too simple which did not go with the rest of our newspaper, (image 1) then Ioana had the idea to put the words all over the place.

I don't like chaos, so I made an organized-mess credits page. Here are some of the versions, there are changes in the detailing.

To make the newspaper even quirkier and modern we decided to put a tag for mobile-phones to recognize and they can see a message once they scan the code. It says "Thank you for escaping with us". (my phone can't read these things so I'm not 100% sure how they actually work).

Final cover

We chose this one to be our cover because:

- the photomontage doesn't clash with the black typography when the lighter part is up

- The black line goes together with the content of the newspaper where the black line is used as the title background

- it is well proportioned, not too heavy on either sides

- it shows the theme and concept of our newspaper well; the imagery is weird and almost abstract but the title explains the meaning.

Cover design

The cover design I planned together with Ioana since it should reflect both of our input in the newspaper.

Ioana had one photocollage she did not end up using in one of her spreads so she thought it could be used for the cover instead.

We agreed on having a mirror-reflection and I then made various versions of the cover in terms of layout. I played around with the image size, text size, placement and black line.
The imagery and big typo goes well together with the rest of the newspaper.

Other Magazine spreads I found inspirational

Out of interest I googled magazine spreads to see what other interesting layouts people have designed for magazine spreads and found a few I liked.

1. Rocketpunch magazine 2. Brandon Perkins, Crop Magazine

I really like the playfulness of the typography and on the first one the overlapping of "Septic death" to the bodycopy. I also like how Perkins made typo into a figure on the second spread. Quite the same idea I did with the Escape spread.

Justifications for Routine spread

After today's tutorial with Rachel and Becky a few questions and comments came up: -

Rationalize why to have the tight text in the speech bubbles

It made me think more about the message that gives out and I decided to still have the text quite tight together because 1) I see the "humans with the cat-masks" speaking in a really fast and squeaky voice. So it's more suitable than having the normal settings for the text. 2) the speech bubbles are for the weird human-cat and should be different from the normal.

- Are the dialogues making people just confused rather than 'confused BUT making them thinking about the message I'm giving out'. How about using text from e.g. Alice in Wonderland or cutting and pasting from two different stories?


We discussed this over with Ioana and thought that the dialogues are suitable - although being weird they are more connected with 'real-life' and the title "Ironic dialogues of routinated people" explains the whole concept of the dialogues. The cats in turn contrasts this with being almost surreal however there's still that routine part of it with the telephone. Which in this case is a symbol for conversations between two people and routine.

Action spread (3rd draft)

After realizing that the margins are going to cut the picture so that it could go to another spread, I added a blank line going through the collage so that it would connect then in the actual newspaper. (Hopefully)