Project Three
NYT Magazine Cover
Designing a cover is an exercise in creating visual concept and narrative. You will need to concept and develop two covers for an issue of the magazine. You will design three covers for the same article. One type based, one graphic based, and one photo based.
Find an existing article / feature story to use for this project about a topic that you find interesting. Must be a long form article or feature.
https://www.nytimes.com/section/magazine
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/07/02/magazine/past-issues-sunday-magazine.html
All imagery created for this project must be created by you or accessed from a catalog which allows for fair use. Photography must be fair use or created by you.
FINAL DELIVERABLES:
(3) Printed Covers (Graphic, Typographic, Photographic)
PDF of above Covers (On Server)
PDF of the Panels (on the server)
Digital Process Book
SCHEDULE:
4 / 15 / 25
IN CLASS
Introduce Project 3
HOMEWORK
Choose Article / Issue (must be a feature from NYT magazine) Ideally get your article approved before you leave class today so you make sure you are on the right track.
Research / Concept Mapping / Word Lists / Etc. (Concept is king here!) Go deep and beyond the obvious. You will thank yourself when you start sketching.
(3) Moodboards for style and concept for your art. Think about how can tease your article without giving everything away? Also think beyond visuals here. How can you connect conceptually?
(70) sketches (Make sure at least 25 are typographic in nature)
4 / 17 / 25
IN CLASS
Design Week
(No Class)
HOMEWORK
Continue with Homework from 3/15
4 / 22 / 25
IN CLASS
Making Presentation
Review Sketches
HOMEWORK
Choose (15) distinct cover ideas and move them into the computer. Need to have at least 4 of each type.
4 / 24 / 25
HOMEWORK
Refine (9) distinct cover ideas and move them into the computer. Focus on three ideas from each type.
Use the weekend to explore ideas and experiement. Fully build out and explore your ideas. Don't build everything the same way and think about what makes sense for your concept?
What can you execute with the tools that you have? Focus on your concepts.
4 / 29 / 25
IN CLASS
Review cover studies
HOMEWORK
Refine top (6) cover ideas. Make sure you have several for each category.
5 / 1 / 25
IN CLASS
Review Refined Cover Ideas
HOMEWORK
Refine (2 covers) from each category. Think about how type and image can interact as well as how set your title.
5 / 6 / 25
IN CLASS
Reviwe Cover Refinements
HOMEWORK
Continue with Homework
5 / 8 / 25
IN CLASS
Project Due
HOMEWORK
Project Due