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Magazine Covers Exercise

With the advent of online classes, we have began to explore into new software included in the adobe suite. The current focus is in Adobe InDesign with the creation of magazine covers. The best way to learn how to use any software, is in making things and just seeing what the software has to offer. This is what I did over the past weekend. I made two different magazine covers using previous works completed for this class. 

The first cover was made using my alphabet that was made for the  first project of the semester. Since the alphabet was made from images of pool balls, I wanted the magazine cover to reflect that idea. So I made the magazine called Games and had current issue, the cover of which I was designing, about the death of the american pool house. As pool started to decline as a popular sport before the turn of the century, I aimed to go for a neon sort of feel with the wording on the cover, without the neon coloring to fit into the color scheme.


The second cover I made was to utilize the second project that I made for this class. The word was "quaint" so I had to pic a photo that would portray that word. The closest photo I found was a beach house photo that I took on my family's trip to the Florida Keys. The house isn't exactly quaint, but it sure is regal.


I felt this was an acceptable delve into the program and the design of a magazine cover. However, I feel that I still have a long way to go, in that I do not necessarily feel that these covers are great by any means. But they are a start and I will hopefully improve with more study and work. 
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