Magazine Design
These are some of my magazine page designs for the Focus magazine ReMarker supplement and the Marque literary magazine.
FOcus Magazine
Dallas saw a 23 percent jump in it's homeless population in one year. Because homelessness was becoming more and more pervasive in our city, we dedicated a 28-page magazine centered around the issue. However, when it came time to deciding the layout and design philosophy of the magazine, I knew that this couldn't be our typical magazine full of lengthy stories. The topic of homelessness is much better discussed through striking photography and putting faces to the issue. So when designing the magazine, we did just that. Through a magazine focused on compelling photos, powerful pull quotes and striking statistics, we told the story of homelessness in a visually appealing and reader friendly way.
Because this magazine is heavily centered around the people, I wanted the cover (and back cover) to portray the humanity of the issue. Since I didn't want to put just one face to the issue, I hand-tore out pieces of different portraits and layered them on top of one another.
As soon as I saw this photo, I knew it needed to be displayed in a big way. While the photo of this homeless man tells its own story, I paired it with the opening copy of the magazine as the first thing readers will see.
Part of what inspired the magazine was the amount of striking statistics Dallas has on its homeless population. Because of this, I wanted to heavily emphasize those numbers in our spread on the issue in our city. Pairing the statistics with a story about Dallas's situation and a photo of homeless people a block away from Dallas City Hall, this spread helped set the tone for the rest of the magazine.
Part of my research on homelessness included going to certain areas in Downtown Dallas and just talking to people on the street. There were three people I talked to who really stood out, so we took an extended quotation from each one and gave them their own spreads. Dispersed throughout the magazine, these three spreads served as a break from the other content, with a full page portrait on one page and an isolated pull quote on the other.
Click arrows to change spreads.
Our central stories in the magazine focused on two homeless women who are now staying at Austin Street Center. A tightly-cropped portrait paired with a pull quote on one side and a spot-colored page on the other, this design is one that quickly grabs the reader's attention when they are flipping through the magazine.
Click arrows to change spreads.
Marque Magazine
My time spent as managing editor of the Marque student literary magazine included spending many nights playing around with different pieces of writing, artwork and photography, and I was able to hone in on my design skills by working on Marque pages.
