Magazine Project Post

When deciding what story to do, I knew I had to do something with music. Music is a huge interest of mine, and I knew it would work better if I did something I was interested in. I found the Beatles breakup story on the Rolling Stone website. Going through the story, I used words that, to me, really represented the Beatles. Peace, Love, and the 60’s were all things I thought of. I wanted my magazine to be a music magazine, and I brainstormed idea of what I wanted the title. I used the name Revolution, because it represents the Beatles, and it has a music feel to it. The cover lines are on the left side, and the Beatles story is on the right, because I needed to separate it as a feature story of the article.

The title page has a purple color, because the picture has a purple tone, and I wanted to carry that over to the text. Not only did the purple tonality attract me to this picture, I also really liked how the picture is pulling the reader in. All of their arms are open, and the picture is very inviting. I knew peace was a huge part of the Beatle’s band and I wanted to represent that in my deckhead. I left the peace sign open, because peace was broken within the band. When setting up my text on the final spread, I used three columns, because I felt it made the text the most organized. In order to separate the pieces of the story even further, I decided to use the sunflowers to break up the text. I used the picture in the middle, because when I saw it, I was able to feel the real passion of peace that the Beatles always had. The Beatles affected the world with their music, and I really think this picture is a great representation of this spreading of peace as well as the end of the Beatles. The picture on the bottom left has a warm tonality, and it also was taken towards the end of the Beatle’s career. I also really liked how Ringo (2^nd from right) is looking up towards the text. I used the contrasts of yellow and purple in my sidebar. Overall, I wanted the magazine to have a vintage feel, and I felt the purple and yellow really achieved the look I was going for. The purple is C-41 M-81 Y-0 K-0, and the yellow, which was taken from the sunflowers, is C-0 M-0 Y-100 K-0. All the photos were scanned from John, Paul, George, & Ringo: The Definitive Illustrated Chronicle of the Beatles, 1960-1970: Rare Photographs, Ephemera, and Day-by-Day Timeline by Tim Hill. The page numbers are written on the marked up copy.

For typography, I wanted to keep the vintage feel of the magazine, so I looked up fonts online called Bellbottom Laser (cover) and Waukegan (Title). My main text font is Caslon, because I wanted to keep the readability and keep a nice contrast with the other fonts. I also used Clearface Gothic as the text of the deckhead, and the text of the sidebar. The sans serif fonts made me think of the 60’s, and I felt they had a nice readability to them as well.

-Briana Bartel