I was pretty discouraged when I picked up last Thursday's issue of Vox only to find that the On The Map that I had spent a good 2-3 hours working on, had been scratched. I wallowed in self pity for a minute and then began working on the Prison Break feature.
I am so pleased with the way this turned out. I'm usually never completely satisfied with my designs, I always wish I had changed this or used a different font for that, but at the end of a very long Sunday of designing, I was able to leave the Vox office beaming with pride.
The design came a long way from my original ideas. The finished product, from its fonts to its photo placement, all worked together with the text to create a very clean, simple yet fitting 4-page spread. I can't take credit for the color choice, I just used the new red swatch, but it is similar to what I used on my original draft. What I thought would be the greatest challenge, adding photo captions to the exiting handwritten captions, turned out to be quite simple and added to the overall concept. This one is definitely making it into the portfolio.
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