For this project I art directed and designed a magazine around a topic of my choosing. The topic I ended up deciding upon for this project was a recently released video game I was quite interested in at the time named “MetaphorReFantazio.” I was instructed to find 3 articles online for usage in filling out the pages of the magazine. The articles I found were a combination of reviews and advice for people playing the game, which I felt adequately mimicked that of the traditional video game magazines I was attempting to replicate.
I experimented quite a bit with my page layouts, although largely sticking to a column grid to keep the design from feeling too messy as Metaphor's interfaces and visual design often was quite maximalist. I experimented with two different cover designs, one with a greater image focus and another with a more typographic focus. I moved forward with the image-focused design as I, as well as my peers, felt as though it would catch a viewer's eye better.
