Josh Norris OCA logbook

For this exercise I had to choose a book by an author I was familiar with and design two book covers for them. I choose Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin. Although this is a series of books I decided to combine all of them into one books. For this exercise I really wanted to implement some other medians. I bought some pastels from Amazon to experiment with and I already had copic markers so I could use them as well.  These were pieces of game of thrones related inspiration I saved, just to help create some themes and get an idea of the direction and elements I wanted to include, at this moment currently there wasn't any specific ideas for covers as I hadn't started sketching.  I really like the typography on these stranger things book covers and I like how its consistent throughout. I really like how pastels look and the way artists use them, I think its a really unique art direction and it couples really nicely with a weird and wonde

This exercise firstly wanted me to identify a magazine and and work out the grid theyve used when constructing it, I don't really have many magazines in the house so I chose an online magazine to review. This was the magazine I chose. Cover Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 I chose to review the cover and the 4 subsequent pages to truly get a feel for the layout. The page is standard A4 with 20mm for the margin, this is pretty common for magazines as Ive found. Because it being a digital magazine, there isn't any need for the inside margin to be slightly larger to account for the binding process. From a glance it appears that the gutter width is about 1cm and they use at most 3 columns, however these are very small columns possibly even just a paragraph. Page 2 focuses massively on imagery, most of the pages do however page 2 uses 5 images, these images are arranged really nicely so they fill the whole sheet up bar some small elements of white space so