Week 3: Project

 Project week 3:

For this weeks project we had to replicate and create a magazine cover, but of "next months edition". While looking through the provided sources that broke down the different vocabulary of the elements that make up a cover page of a magazine- It had me thinking about what magazines I see often, my household is very, very hockey orientated, so there's a few magazines that I knew off the top of my head to use. Later on I decided to stay away from the big name magazines, as the fonts and styles are super uniform and plain, there is another, lesser known hockey magazine called USA Hockey, which is exclusive to members that pay to play in the nation. The style of magazine, while professional, gives off a young teen vibe and is super poppy, stylistic, and never follows strict uniform. The fonts they use differ vastly between each cover, which in it's own unique way is exactly what makes their "uniform". 

Going into photoshop the header of the magazine was pretty simple to make, the logos were readily available as SVG files (which I prefer over anything for logos). However I was not able to find a close enough type family for the "hockey" segment of the header- but I found this website called www.myfonts.com that uses photos you import to find you the closest alternitive of font. 

 

After building my header I went into choosing a background for the magazine- which was the photo the Utah hockey Club used to announce their jerseys, I took this in photoshop and used the "select subject" tool to be able to separate the players from the background so I could later add text behind them. 

Here is my final rendition;