Thursday, June 01, 2006
Vox: Boxing 6.01 cover
Here is this week's cover:
It was a photo essay on a boxing club in town with really powerful black and white images. I liked this photo for the cover because it's ambiguous. It tells the reader the subject, but none of the players are in the forefront, creating an incentive to read the feature inside.
Because the photo was black and white, I wanted to play that up, and did so by lessening my colors around it. The gold lettering gives some muted colors, I liked the metallic look of the gold on the page. The white outline of vox represents the ropes in a boxing ring.
Some critique of the cover, a black and white photo, no matter how interesting, still doesn't really sell Vox as a cover. Part of it was that the black and white only prints on one plate. Possibly printing it as a four-color grayscale would have made it pop more, but honestly I think it just can't be done on our presses.
Illustrations
Also in the past few weeks I've taken on some illustrating responsibilities, here are two gems. The first is a fun little ice cream cone, the second is much more disturbing. It was originally going to be a cover, filled with masks of different artists, but fortunately boxing was deemed 'cover worthy' It still gives me the creeps looking at it, I had to stop designing after these two because it was creeping me out.
It was a photo essay on a boxing club in town with really powerful black and white images. I liked this photo for the cover because it's ambiguous. It tells the reader the subject, but none of the players are in the forefront, creating an incentive to read the feature inside.
Because the photo was black and white, I wanted to play that up, and did so by lessening my colors around it. The gold lettering gives some muted colors, I liked the metallic look of the gold on the page. The white outline of vox represents the ropes in a boxing ring.
Some critique of the cover, a black and white photo, no matter how interesting, still doesn't really sell Vox as a cover. Part of it was that the black and white only prints on one plate. Possibly printing it as a four-color grayscale would have made it pop more, but honestly I think it just can't be done on our presses.
Illustrations
Also in the past few weeks I've taken on some illustrating responsibilities, here are two gems. The first is a fun little ice cream cone, the second is much more disturbing. It was originally going to be a cover, filled with masks of different artists, but fortunately boxing was deemed 'cover worthy' It still gives me the creeps looking at it, I had to stop designing after these two because it was creeping me out.
// posted by teresasanserif @ 4:18 PM 
