The past couple of weeks I've been designing the CC Coffeehouse feature for the February 15th issue of Vox. Not only did the story itself change by the end of it all, but my design went through multiple transformations. My ambitious initial thought of doing a graphic, seemed to be great until I came to the realization that I know nothing about creating illustrations and no matter how much we tried to get the image of the two coffee mugs to not look pixelated, it still did.
In the end, I think the overall design for the feature is good. I played up the couples love for coffee by titling it "Coffee mates," creating an image that is similar to the creamer. I used warm colors, drawing on the whole idea of the quieter, relaxed coffee shop that the couple now owns.
There ended up being a lot of white space, which I normally like in designs, but I don't think blends in with the overall layout of the magazine.
This is one of the spreads that I will redesign by the end of the semester, hopefully including a fun graphic that works.
(second page coming soon)
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