Magazine Project

For my magazine project, I chose to do a travel magazine about Ireland. I studied abroad there in 2007 when I was a junior in undergrad and absolutely fell in love with the country. I will admit that it wasn't my original idea but as I went searching for ideas and magazines, this one prevailed and ended up as my idea. The article I chose was a top ten places that you must visit while in Ireland. I didn't change their order of places to see. I did change all the pictures and format of the article. The photograph of Ireland and the Guinness pint were found on-line and the other 3 or 4 were ones that I had taken while I was there.

I didn't use drop caps in my article because of the numbers and titles of the places. It competed too much with each other so I decided to not use drop caps. The greens and tans all came out of the Ireland photograph. So I tied in my feature spread with my jump spread that way. Also, the blue background in the sidebar came from the blue background on the feature spread.

For fonts, I used a couple font families. I don't remember all of them but there were probably like 5 families used. All of the fonts I used were meant for that particular word or phrase. So I didn't randomly just use them. I named my magazine "What's the Craic?" which craic means good or fun. The Irish use this term a lot. The intent of my magazine is to be very photo heavy with a lot of colors. Ireland is a very colorful place and the magazine honors that attribute. I used a 12 grid system for the layout and a 2 column system for the text.