I am very aware that the stock in the Topshop stores moves to fast to be able to warrant creating a magazine with the latest and greatest trends inside. (They have a lovely email newsletter which does the job!) But if they did have one, I would like to think this is what it would look like!

This is the unfinished version and I will update this post when it’s finished, but for now here is a sneak peek!

Using a selection of fashion photographs I pieced together the information and created a brief mini-interview.

I actually love the pictures in this set they have a very American Apparel meets high fashion quality to them, which I am a big fan of!

The pictures have inspired me to create a few pages of a magazine spread with the her last interview, originally published in Life Magazine as the content.

Click the thumbnail to view the project images.

Using stock fashion/celebrity images and information from the internet for the actual interview itself, I constructed a mock up of a fashion magazine interview with Mena Suvari.

I intend to experiment with the differences between the appearance of different magazines depending on their target audience, like the more expensive fashion magazines and the layouts of gossip type weekly magazines.

Click the thumbnail to view the project images.

They were told that from now on they had to provide a public notice at the bottom of the TV screen noting that they were altering the images. I thought that it was a little ridiculous as most cosmetics adverts, be it in magazines or on the television alter their images, if not with false eyelashes then with photo editing programs such as Adobe Photoshop.

It has become pretty much industry standard, so I thought I would create a tongue in cheek cosmetic range made by Photoshop. There are little features like instead of a lipstick colour - “flamingo pink” for example, there are the colour numbers instead like bf2324

This spread has alot less content than the magazine interviews but I wanted to try something a little different.

It’s occurred to me that both of these magazines have been in black and white so I’m going to try something more colourful next, I think it will have a very different feel to the two last ones but its something I’m interested in experimenting with.

The text in this layout is taken from an interview with the actress Christina Ricci and I feel that these images that are combined with the text really capture the mood of the interview.

(Also, I am aware that the front cover says “hiddem” this is what the letter N looks like, I plan on photo-shopping it in time, I just wanted to get it up on the site for now.)

This was mainly to keep myself motivated after graduating, keeping busy and keeping inspired are always high on my list and in this case I had an idea about colour and improvisation.

In this canvas I transferred a digital image of a womans face to the canvas and then hand illustrated the imagery around it.

The idea for this canvas was to explore text and visual descripton, the definition of mellifluous being “sweet or musical; pleasant to hear: the voice was mellifluous and smooth”

I tried to visually communicate these things by how the word was designed, this includes the typography and the application of the typeface.

What I liked about this was that really I could’ve picked a much more flowing font to use but I would rather make this quite structured font look flowing by the ornament applied to it than that.

I think this is probably going to be an ongoing project that I will just add to whenever I find a recipe that sounds particularly delicious or a photograph that really inspires me, food is definitely another passion of mine!

Here are some sample pages…