Contents page Research and Development

 This is the development and research post for my magazine content page

    
    

A convention of a contents page from a car magazine is that its filled with different cars and not only one car, as well it is filled with many pictures of the cars. To me especially the offroad car magazines it doesn't look neat and its not the type of style that I would go for. So I would subvert this convention by reducing the amount of pictures and typefaces within the page.

These are the type of layouts I would go for, though these are just quick random sketches out of my head I would ask my friends for more ideas.

 DESIGN 

As seen that I did try to follow my sketches but It just wasn't the design I was looking for , the pictures didnt fit and I didnt like the looks of it.

First of all at the first design, I didnt know what to do even after doing some research. I needed more pictures and I didnt have the idea. Though after going around google and finding idea examples I came up with the last two layouts. A convention of a offroad car magazine is that its very energetic and messy, though I didn't like it since it didnt look clean. Therefore I will subvert this convention and go for a professional style. At first I used a medium shot of the Jimny's engine to make it the main focus of the contents page as sice my double page spread is about the jimny. Then I used the grids to neatly layout the other 3 pictures on the bottom. The pictures chosen were what I think would be related to offroad. First was a long shot of the horizon in a field which could be thought as an offroad track, the two vehicle pictures is another offroad , a Jeep wrangler rubicon. Jeep is widely known for their tough all terrain vehicles, becoming synonymous for offroad topics. Though my dad doesn't use it for offroading purposes, the car is always capable of doing so. Hence, I would like to highlight the key elements of the car such as the close up shots of the Jeep logo on the steering wheel and the rubicon badge upfront, to give a further notice of the upcoming offroad related articles.  

. Next I properly laid out the page numbers using a small rectangle as a background to make it visible. By then I added all the contents texts. To make it in place and in structure, I used the rule and margin and follow the guides to not go out of the structure which I got help from my friends online for some feedback on how to make the text look more professional. However after I added the text there was still a lot of negative space found, therefore I added a small row which consits of the categories of contents within the magazine to make it look more filling, I even asked opinions from friends and they said they liked it as well.  Another convention I saw was that the contents page of car magazines mostly dont have  a page number on them, knowing this I will conform to this convention as since I wouldn't have enough space to put the contents page number.  

I got more feedback from my teacher, since offroading is associated with earth, dirt and mud, I have to follow those colors in order to follow the theme. Because of that, I changed the color yellow to a darker orange as well as the previous grey boxes is switched with a brown color