Finishing touches to layout of articles

Wanting there to be just as interesting touches to the text as there is with the imagery of the magazine, I spent a little additional time playing around with body of text within this page. It was important to keep the amount of space around the article as the illustrations and large type on the left were so large and prominent on the page, and so as a way of breaking up the chunk of article text I adopted the method seen in NEST magazine by placing the word 'sorry' (another word that female readers will see and recognise as a satirical emphasis on how women are expected to say sorry all the time) half within the text and half in the space surrounding it. 

Initially I had three sorry text boxes however a peer suggested that this felt over the top and so I took it down to two, which still maintains the impact it has when you see it. Having these 'sorry' text boxes with the main article body of text also helps hierarchy of the page and therefore legibility as the reader is immediately drawn to the large type 'oooh sorry I'm late', then to the white clocks bottom right and then to the smaller text of the two 'sorry', which draws their eyes to read the article. 

After completing the magazine I tested its format by exporting it into a PDF which helped me recognise that I had not used the bleed marks correctly, as for example this pink solid block on colour on the right hand page above was too small and there was a border or white around it. I also saw that some of the artwork was covering up page numbers, and so removed these page numbers so that there would be alternating ones (something different to most magazines. It also emphasises this sense of no creative or layout restrictions or conventions and plays on the notion of new creative ideas and what feminism represents). 

TO DO:

- Animate front cover for it to go on Instagram for social media awareness of the release of the new publication:

Have the fannys simply tumbling down into the cover while the R changes to and from all the different versions I made suing the different illustrations from each article (R with clock, R with shower head etc). This way I make use of them and it would reflect the different stories within the magazine to the person who watches the animation = like a sneak peak.

- Test different stock papers, such as newsprint.