Design for a Magazine
Thursday, April 22, 2010 8:45:04 AM
Since February, I am in charge of designing the magazine for a Breast Cancer Research Group.
Usually, this type of magazines have a very dull design, serious and sometimes even sad, with old people on the cover, or other not too happy and nice images. I just wondered why most of the magazines dealing with sad or difficult matters, like Cancer, had to convey this feeling.
So, my first challenge was to design something which was nice to look at, even pretty. I wanted the cover to be powerful, with colours, not the usual bleak and depressing image.
This is the first cover I designed:
I am actually quite happy with the result, and so were they.
Usually, this type of magazines have a very dull design, serious and sometimes even sad, with old people on the cover, or other not too happy and nice images. I just wondered why most of the magazines dealing with sad or difficult matters, like Cancer, had to convey this feeling.
So, my first challenge was to design something which was nice to look at, even pretty. I wanted the cover to be powerful, with colours, not the usual bleak and depressing image.
This is the first cover I designed:
I am actually quite happy with the result, and so were they. 







