[OpenCL]

did this mag cover for fake magazine for school. Crits please.



thanks.

[Dekard]

Just my personal preference I would of used the pic in the corner as the main pic and the guy sucking on the harmonica as the secondary pic, not sure why but you just don't see many people on magazines with that kind of look on their face. I'm sure he's really talented and all but people if they saw that in the supermarket would walk by and be like wtf? good stuff though. Just a comment, I'm a nobody though.. don't mind me..

[ February 12, 2002: Message edited by: Dekard ]

[Probus]

well it looks pretty underground and i guess that was the intention. i would change something about the title, i don�t reall like the blue lines and the shadows on the text. take a look at this site: http://www.okayplayer.com/artists.htm
it�s visually not very special but i thought you might be able to use it.

[arkoh]

All right... I'll give you a few thoughts of my own!

First of all... the overall look/composition of the cover seems quite harmonic!

The few crits I have, are related to the use of texttype(s) and the colorscheme.

1. I am able to count roughly 6, 7 or 8 different texttypes/or at least different expressions of the texttypes! WAY TO MANY, choose them carefully and with purpose, don't trow them around only to underline different blocks of information! Advice... brake it up into different levels of importance: headline, sub headline, names and quotes to guide the viewer through the levels of the cover!!

2. I dont like the use of the yellow of the "Hip Hop Congress" and the yellow/orange of the "G. Love & Special Sauce"... they have not been chosen with care... meaning: they dont work together!

Last advice: use the text with shadows with care! It needs to tell its own story (depth/quote/spoken words etc.), otherwise it simply seems annoying!!

[Sukhoi]

I ablolutely agree with Arkoh!!!
Well put!
The basic composition is good but the detail is not quite there...

Also you should try to look on text not AS text but as form. A line of text has a certain weight to it. This should be held up against the borders around it, images, lines, 'empty' space, whatever, and a hormony should exist...even if it's not harmonic. For instance does the bottom half of the cover look all crammed, while the middle (in this issue) looks too airy. These areas do not speak to my eye in the same way. It's two different languages if you know what I mean.

Also I would strongly encourage you not to stretch the types!!

Sukhoi

[OpenCL]

what do you suggest? should I keep most of the faces similar? colors?