Recreating a Men's Health page

My version. 

Original copy. 

 For this assignment we were to recreate a page taken out of a magazine. I got a clip from Men's Health Magazine. I think the hardest part of this assignment was finding pictures that resembled the ones in the original page. I never knew finding a picture of a shirtless man on the beach could be so difficult. But besides the pictures I think everything else went okay. I started with the dominant photograph because that seemed to be as the focal point of the page. I then worked around that picture adding all the text and the top black headline. After I did the whole left side, I moved over to the right column. It was also a bit of a challenge to try to fit everything on the right side of the page in one single column. 

Painted Glass - Cool

Cool Colors

This design was again just taking my original black and white design and turning it into a color piece only using cool color tones. I absolutely love cool colors. Blue purple and teal are my favorite colors. I also like that the color blue can have so many different shades and yet still be blue and still be considered a cool color. So here I used a light blue, a sort of indigo color and purple. I chose to leave out green mainly because I don't like green and I think these colors are the most cohesive together. I felt adding a green color would through off the gradient balance thing going on. 

Painted Glass - Warm

Warm Colors

Taking the same design as the previous post, I just updated the colors from black and white to the use of more warm colors. I took away the background gradient component just because I felt a color heavy design didn't need it. Also I tried it with all the shades of warm colors and I couldn't pick one that I thought deserved more attention than the others. 

Tainted Glass

Black & White

This design was made as an introduction to Adobe InDesign using only black and white. I wanted to stick to something with simple shapes, because things tend to look messy when there are a lot of different shapes and sizes on one page. In order to give it some depth I used the gradient feather tool to each individual square as well as the background. This gives the appearance of an all-over gradient and a bit of transparency between squares.