critique- third week

This week, I finished up my "books and postscripts" design for the February 8 issue of VOX along with my ballerina feature. Doing departments and a feature for the same week was a little difficult and I don't recommend it. The ballerina feature went through a few more revisions. I was having difficulty finding a font I liked for the headline and I ended up downloading a font called "loki cola" from acidfonts.com. (Thank you Kristin!). I think it's the "Coca Cola" font. Anyway, I used loki cola for the first letters of the headline and used a serif font for the remainder of the letters. The number of pictures also changed from six to five. This opened up the design and I think it looks better. I was worried that I wouldn't be able to come up with design that did the pictures justice, but I think I was able to showcase the wonderful pictures within a design that I actually like. I stuck with purple for the color, I just made it a little darker. It's a luxurious color that I thought complemented the look of the spread.




























Above is the design with the font that I used (Monoca Cursive) before Loki Cola. Unfortunately, I don't have a copy of the design with six pictures using this placement.






























Above is the final design as it will appear in VOX on Thursday.



















For the "Books" department page, I decided to go livetrace the images I found on the web in Illustrator and change their colors so there would be different looks for each subhead. Even though I'm pleased with the final look of the page, I'm wondering if there's more I could have done to differentiate the sections.



















For "postscript" I decided to use an illustration for the art because I wanted to practice my skills, plus I thought it was the best way to show readers what the story was about. I sketched out my original idea and scanned it in to trace in Illustrator. Once I had traced out what I needed, I used brushes for the outlines of the shapes and figures. While it may not win an award, i like the way it turned out and my use of illustrations continue! Here's the final illustration after some cleanup.


Let me know your thoughts!!