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Vintage Magazine is about showing the appeal of classic cars. Our target audience are senior citizen that want to refurbish their classic or those who's interested in classic cars. Our goal is to breathe new life into these cars because today's car are massed produced without attempting at new concepts. Its interesting to see different characteristic of each cars. A car is like anything else it should say something about the person who drives it.
Hi Chris, I absolutely love your design for the cover. The design itself feels very vintage to me but sleek at the same time, which is what these cars are supposed to be considered… a classic machine restored.
ReplyDeleteThe curves going off the top right corner reminds me of the shape of vintage cars, around their headlights, and I immediately saw the connection. Even the double stroke you have around the shape seems very vintage to me and I wish I saw that in more places throughout the brochure.
Most of your pages have that rounded corner aspect, except the first spread and 5-6. These spread don’t seem to fit as well in my opinion as the others do. Every other spread has rounded accents and a much darker look, those two spreads seem much lighter and “boxy” to me so maybe take a look at those!
I think the layout is great and I do agree that it has a vintage feels. The only thing I would suggest to make the pictures work together a little bit more would be to add some sort of light vintage filter on them as there seems to be one on the cover image. I think that would tie the pictures together very nicely and balance the content, layout and images together.
ReplyDeleteChris - you have a fantastic cover design, with the black and warm goldish-brown upscale color palette and dramatic photo. Your first spread is quite different - and I wonder if there would be a way for you to carry some of that same cover feeling here? Did you try a black background behind the Car Show ad? It's such a great cover that I encourage you to find a way to continue the approach into the interior a bit.
ReplyDeleteThe interior pages are well done - although I wonder if you can find another color to use in the ad on page 5... that electric blue is simply too dominant for the spread... and this is something you have control over right now (being in school)... it's worth changing for the sake of your portfolio.
Back cover - is the balance very heavy at the bottom, with unactivated space in upper right? Did you think about pulling the heading up a bit, and enlarging? This is an important page in the magazine - and the ad has a great vintage feel... but revisit the layout to make sure we see the heading as large and dominant.