Putting things together

After I took and edited my photos, I had been working on the basic design of my pages. I followed my sketched out designs for both the table of contents and the cover page so far. Selecting my fonts was very hard and at the moment, I am still not sure of how I feel about some of them. I like the way my table of contents page is laid out the best. I think it attracts a younger audience very well. The fonts are bold but thin and modern. Some of the fonts are more bubbly but still thin and not too dramatic. The bright colors of the photos I also feel attracts a younger audience too. There is a total of 6 photos on my table of contents page and a younger audience is more attracted to photos rather than a lot of words. The pictures are set up like instagram pictures with little captions and descriptions of each item in the photo. I gave each picture a creative name too, trying to attract a young audience. For the avocado toast its titled Toast Up, for the acai bowl its titled EDIbowls, for the lettuce wraps its titled Wrap It Up, for the almond butter its titled Health Nut, for the juice cleanses its titled #Juicyyy and for the fetta cheese watermelon salad its titled Say Cheese. In the boxes of the, I put small brief descriptions of each recipe. I also followed the same boxes that were put in the cover on the cover page to carry certain features from page to page.
So far, all the text in the table of contents is in black font, but I am working on changing it and pulling out certain shades from certain photos to make the page pop even more. I did a discussion with my classmates on my page so far and, my friend Jake and I both said that we thought a very faint blue background would match very well with the page. I took the advice and i put it as the background and I asked classmates how they thought it looked and they all said they liked the look.

I am mainly taking advice from my classmates and friends since I was aiming to attract a young audience and all my friends are in my target audience. They have been really helpful helping me out since I was very unsure of what to do at first and kept being indecisive of my ideas. My classmates have helped me out a lot from choosing photos, fonts, colors, coming up with ideas, and page layouts and ways to make my magazine unique to me.


I have a preliminary design of my double page spread, I designed it out but i am not sure exactly how I feel about it. I discussed the page with a few of my classmates and they said that they liked the design and that it looks good and don't see anything wrong with it. Since I used a faint blue on the table of contents page, I figured it would make the pages flow more if I made the double page spread a different color too. After discussing with my classmates, I came to the decision on making it a faint purple color for now. This color may change by the time I finalize my magazine. As of right now I also have only words on the left side page and one photo that is on the right side page. I might change that design and make it different because I feel like that look is kind of basic looking and many other food magazines follow that design. In a way, I want to challenge the basic food magazine since I am aiming towards a younger audience. Food magazines typically are not aimed towards teenagers to young adults but that was what I was trying to aim at. I feel like I have been able to achieve this for the most part so far by using my classmates advice and by just adding more color and pictures which typically attracts a younger audience.