What I've Done

Today in class I finished my editor's page, which is for my newspaper/magazine design class that I am taking with professional magazine aficionado, Tim Mitchell. He is spearheading the class now that we have entered the magazine portion of the material.

For our first assignment he wanted us to re-produce an editor's page from a magazine we like to read. I had Wired, Motor Trend and Men's Health and the only one with a distinguishable editor's page was Men's Health. So I opened to page 28 to start diagnosing the project that I would have to undertake. The first words out of my mouth were, "Oh shit!" For such a tabloid magazine, I was surprised at the amount of design that went into their pages. My understanding of InDesign and Photoshop is limited and there were some things I was going to need help with. One of those things as you will see in my design were the top header bar and the bottom page and label bar. They took the longest amount of time to do.

Here is my re-production of the Men's Health editor's page. I don't know if the real one is online, but I forgot to scan the real one today so you could see what it looks like. Oh yeah, thanks to Andrew and Megan for helping me get InDesign figured out.
So once again, I ask you for your comments. I spent a total of six hours on this, trying to get it right. The images and text are purely of the placeholder variety. Literally, seriously.