GT4 Photomode Magazine Cover: Week 9 Poll
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franz
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- 5,420
- Vancouver
- GTP_Franz
maybe its quiet at night ...suzq044
wait till tomorrow ... we'll get more people to vote
actually I have been checking the poll couple of times
I don't know if that would count
sometimes the thread is unread on my screen
then I entered and leave ... the thread is still unread after reloads
but later 4-5mins ... the thread is back to "read" state
my assumption is ... the # of views refresh once a while
and most view was done by myself ... call me stupid then
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- SRV2NV
Tough comp. Brought it down to my top 3 and got stuck for a choice, lol.
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It was tough to choose. I finally chose the 5th entry down.
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- Oregon, USA
- Digi-Gen
Sorry man, I was just too busy to get the time ...Easy$$
- 584
- Oregon, USA
- Digi-Gen
Welcome to the 2nd installment of the Designers Choice Award for the magazine cover creation competition.
I have been asked to choose the cover that best exemplifies professionalism on all design levels. Such as: the choice and quality of the background picture, font use and text content, color utilization and other criteria. I will show the design that was chosen as well as point out the reasons for my decision. I will also make a few comments, that as a designer, I see where areas of the design could possibly be improved upon.
I will not pick my own design for the award, but I may refer to it for the purpose of providing an example.
PRAISE
SUGGESTIONS
Over all, the cover is well suited for the content of the magazine. Congratulations Eazy$$ on this weeks Vicious VP Designers Choice Award. 👍
I have been asked to choose the cover that best exemplifies professionalism on all design levels. Such as: the choice and quality of the background picture, font use and text content, color utilization and other criteria. I will show the design that was chosen as well as point out the reasons for my decision. I will also make a few comments, that as a designer, I see where areas of the design could possibly be improved upon.
I will not pick my own design for the award, but I may refer to it for the purpose of providing an example.
Here is this weeks winner by Easy$$:
PRAISE
- I really like the look of this cover. E$ has found a good balance in the placement of multiple design elements. It is difficult to create a cover with this much information presented on the front, but by using proper positioning, sizing and good images, it has all come together w/o looking overly crowded.
- I also think that E$ made a wise choice in dividing up the cover in to two parts. The upper and the lower. In doing so, he provided two separate "canvases" that could be used for drastically different elements. The upper portion, with its "drawings", would not fit in to the flow of the cover if it were done as a single "frame", therefore having it separated is visually attractive.
- Another aspect of this design that helps with the flow, is the use of a semi-standard mag font such as Harvest or Impact. This font helps in placing a lot of information in a limited space by having tight kerning and being a taller font. It is also one of the better fonts for standing off the page by being bold w/o looking blocky or too "full" while maintaining complete readability.
SUGGESTIONS
- I find little in this cover that can be critiqued too harshly because most of the items I see are small ones. Like: the LA Auto Show Coverage graphic. I feel that if the text were smaller the graphic could have been increased slightly in size and shifted a bit down and to the left. As it sits now, it almost looks like it is part of the Nike One teaser. Because of the design flow going from top-left to bottom-right, it flows right in to the LAAS graphic location.
- There is something that just seems odd about the Acura HSC font treatment. I feel that with the rest of the cover having no font embellishments, those on the A-HSC is a bit much. Even with the lens-flairs added to the taillights, your eye keeps snapping back to the HSC because of its prominence. I feel that maybe doing something a bit different with fonts, as opposed to more with a single font, would have given better results. More like the "High Plains Drifters" in this cover (Slide Mag Cover)- where less turned out to be more in the grand scheme of the design. I had to really fight the urge to put more effects on to those fonts.
Over all, the cover is well suited for the content of the magazine. Congratulations Eazy$$ on this weeks Vicious VP Designers Choice Award. 👍
