For the piece Cabo San Lucas Editorial Design, I was given the task of using text content from a NY Times travel story in order to create an editorial magazine layout along with found images. The problem at hand was creating an engaging layout that was readable, legible, and cohesive while using a large amount of text across 6 pages. We were asked to focus on grid systems that held continuity while still leading the viewers eye across the page in creative ways.
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After doing an initial rough draft, I was receiving feedback about an issue with having awkward left-over amounts of space that felt out of place. This came from the way the article was sectioned into Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. Originally, I tried to keep each section on one page but that left open spaces on the shorter ones. I started working with spanning paragraphs and sections across multiple columns, using different size pictures, moving around the headings.
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Then, I figured out I could fit the 3 days of the weekend titles, which were the main headings, inside the biggest and most important picture on their individual pages, giving myself one less thing to work around while setting the paragraphs. Also, on certain pages with the awkward spaces, I decided to use a pull quote from the article and smaller images.
As you look across all 6 pages, none of the grid systems are the same. They are all 3 columns, yet interchange image, quotes, and text to bring the viewers eye up, down, and across each page.
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The important thing to me in the conclusion was looking through the past iterations along the way and recognizing how many individual problems I solved that ended up completely changing the entire piece. This design holds exceptional value to me because it represents my ability to turn a memory and past experience into an exceptional magazine layout.