OUGD603 - Mass Art Day 2

• Designing the layout of magazine/newspaper, we began by listing potential sections of the content to include.
• This included interviews with students, places of interest, sketches of participants, a comic strip, potential photographs and other sections.
• We then gathered our ideas and started applying roles between the group. My role in this would be to oversee the sketches from the illustrators, creating potential layouts for the sketches and then to organise the sketches into spreads once they are finished.
• We had decided at this point, that the publication would be designed by students for students. This meant making it look like a student newspaper that reflects life in Leeds, in a way that could entice potential new comers to the city and give them an idea of the opportunities here.

I started out by creating several different layouts in the style of a comic book. This allowed me and the illustrators to visualise how to display the cartoon in a sequence.

 

Next, I added the images to different styles of green gradient grids, as this was consistent with the layouts made by Carlos and Ami. 

Placing these gradients as square outlines around the sketches was the first way to separate them in a similar way to cartoon strips.

As the majority of the newspaper was to be created with a black background, I decided to invert the colours of the sketches to match this black background. This would allow the lines of the sketches to remain consistent with the white outline text used in Carlos' layout. One thing to consider before tomorrow would be how the green gradient can be applied differently and how text may be applied once finalised.

Interviews

In order to gather more material for our publication we decided it would be beneficial to interview several students to get feedback on their experiences with Leeds, the places they recommend and what makes it a unique place to live. This would then give us information to add to the spreads and for the illustrators, there would be an opportunity to represent the student through sketches or caricatures.