Creating my cover

 When is came to designing my cover, I glanced back at my previous blogs to combine all elements that I wanted to include in my magazine. This included the content, images and structure.
    The structure is quite similar to the magazine I analyzed in class (Mother Earth Living) which provided an clean and simple structure. I still had to play with font, but it was just a rough planning of my ideas.


My next step was to write down all my text so I could continue to start placing them around to a placement that would suit the magazine. I utilized the "Herb-Infused Honeys" issue of Mother Earth Living to structure and organize my texts and image.
My main image takes over the full page. It interferes a bit more with the text than Mother Earth Living to highlight the significance of the image.
My magazine follows its similar subheadings, however my text with the articles that are included inside the magazine are at the bottom left to not disrupt the image.


      After arranging the text, I wanted to imitate the semi-translucent box on the lower left of Mother Earth Living; therefore I searched up a video on how to create a similar concept. My shape was a green ellipses to compliment the aspect of leaves and their shape.
                                                            https://youtu.be/UjEKlA66dxg
      Later I went on to choosing the color of my text. I chose the light and calming color, white, to not overwhelm or intimidate readers with too much color. I also included the splash of yellow to add some bright aspect to the cover and it also combines well with the light green oval and the light pink in the background.












These were some color combinations I tried when mixing colors together.




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