preliminary contents table analysis

 

After analyzing my preliminary cover page, I realized a lot about my thought process going into making my magazine. Because of this, I decided to continue my analysis and focus on the table of contents this time. Once again, I'll be going through the steps I took to make this part of the magazine.

For starters, I was happy with the style that I used on my cover page. Because of that, I decided to continue using the stylized font and the minimalistic design. This can be seen in simplicity of the text and the use of mainly black and white.

I also liked the effect that the shallow focus on the main image of my cover page had, creating a simplified look. For this reason, I used the same technique on the main image on this page. However, I also decided to make the image monotone, changing it to be black and white. At the time, I felt that this would also add to the minimalistic design.

On the right side of the page, I added the article titles and their page numbers. After adding them, it felt to me that everything was a little too crowded and that it was difficult to tell which stories were the most important. Since I'm not very knowledgeable on creating magazines, I started researching how to solve this. I came across a concept called font hierarchy and decided to implement this by making the important articles a larger font than the less important ones. After adding the descriptions of the articles, I once again used font hierarchy to make it stand out less than the titles.

However, after adding the article descriptions, everything still felt too crowded and the minimalist design had been damaged. To solve this, I used different examples and discovered that making the descriptions a light grey helped restore the minimalist design while still providing the necessary information.