Eve's Digital Production Blog

          For this assignment, we were to create our own magazine cover with our new understanding of design principles and how to use them to our benefit. For my magazine cover, I chose to use the topic of musical theatre. I chose this topic because I feel that it is what I care about the most and I would have the most ideas for creating it. Considering the design principles, I feel that I was able to capture most of them relatively well! For example, I created a balance in the magazine cover by positioning the main subject of the cover to one side of the image and left all of the text to the other side of the image. This allows for their to be a focus to the center of the image rather than a distraction on either side that is more appealing than the other.            I covered the design principle of Rhythm/Repetition with the use of symmetry on the cover. I used equal amounts of media on either side, with a full image ...

Image from: nothingbutgeek.com Balance/Contrast This magazine features only one image as a main focus, the image of Carrie Fisher. This is balanced very well with her pose, and the text equally distributed on both sides of her. The image features a lot of contrast with it's use of a black and white focus of color. This allows for her to have an ethereal essence, and is very fitting for a tribute edition of this magazine. The main image in black and white of Carrie Fisher is also contrasted with the bold, bright yellow of the magazine title. This adds the focus to her as well as the name in equal measure. Her pose adds the most balance in the image because her hands are placed at equal positions on her shoulders on opposite sides of the image. Also, her straight-faced look and hair balances the image even more.  Rhythm/Repetition (Movement/Pattern) This image creates a sense of repetition and pattern in the sense that the main image is almost exactly symmetrica...