PROMO SQUARE

The end is near, 5 (and a half) weeks left until FMB is over!

This means graduation, and grad show! We had to create a promotional square representing ourselves...here is mine.

PORT Magazine

March has seen the launch of the self-styled "intelligent magazine for men", PORT.

One of editor Dan Crowe’s and co-creative director Kuchar Swara’s main focus of the new magazine mixing classic and contemporary issues.

Thinking about that look and feel of our main website, PORT hold a unique value on what it wanted to achieve as a magazine visually.

An interesting feature of the magazine's design is the use of single page, typographic-heavy openers to larger features. It makes for a more thoughtful and considered approach to the reading experience,

Equally, the PORT iPad app, designed by Jeremy Leslie, offers a seamless transition to digital. The pages are elegantly reformatted to fit the tablet; it's devoid of gimmickry and pleasingly reflects the clean design

of its printed edition.

It oozes that masculine feel that we are aiming for within our own website, and here are some of the most striking visuals from the magazine.

MEN MEN MEN

Researching men is starting to take over my life!

Currently working on our final project to create a male website, which can only be described as a male ‘fashion’ advice site, myself and Elle are currently looking out for anything MEN.

When we say men we mean male trends/colours/texts/images, all things that ooze male.

An influencing trend we have researched is geometry. Looking at simple shapes, angles, equations and so on...

This initial moodboard is a rough general idea of a visual route we could go down...

I have used mathematical equations, angles, measurements with a subtle graph paper background. Using thee colours green and red to give a more masculine theme.

Vogue X12

I found these ghostly Vogue montages absolutely fascinating.

Every cover from 2010 were layered on top of each other to reveal something

very unique about all covers used throughout the year...

Every single issue of every edition layered to show the predominant factor of the cover (minus text), it shows the repeated formula of a centred dark haired and fair skinned model.

The 12 UK covers are all lightly coloured with the face predominantly shining through from all of the layers.

The 12 Paris covers are a complete contrast to that of the UK editions. Creagting dark backgrounds with all variations of different fonts and images.

All still so beautiful.

(Source: CR Blog, Livejournal)

BACK.

I am back after a long time.

Time to get down to business...