Adobe Illustrator layout designs for Magazine and Website

Fashion Research

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Website and Magazine Planning

My website design and magazine will be aimed at males, with male fashion in mind. I’ve chosen this because I preferred the styles of the existing male websites/magazines to that of female ones. I think the fashion style of the website and magazine would be similar to that of GQ and Esquire. This is because they do show fashion but they also show other things that men would be interested in. To have a website and magazine for men that would be purely fashion wouldn’t interest most men, it would have to be a mixture. I think when using a model for the magazine/website I would use a male model as it’s for male fashion.

For the colour scheme I was going to use a mixture of black and silver, with a while background for the text to lie on. This is because bright colours don’t interest males normally. They’d probably be more attracted to colours like black, silver. They are more manly colours than that of yellow, orange, pink. My idea for the website was to have a black background with silver for the navigation bar. The navigation bar would lie over the black and stand out. The white would be used as a base for the text and images to go on. This is so the text can be black as it’s easier to read black on white than white on black. The masthead will also be in the same silver as the navigation bar.

For the magazine I plan to have a black background for the front cover. The masthead will be in the same silver as used on the website for the navigation. The cover lines and sub headings will be in white so that they don’t look the same and blend in with the masthead.

As stated above, the cover line will be in white on the magazine. I will make these fairly big so that they stand out over the rest of the magazine, apart form the masthead.  I’ll position it somewhere around the top of the magazine, somewhere situated on the left hand side of the page. I’ll keep it apart from the masthead so that it doesn’t blend in too much with it. In terms of design. I’ll use a different font to the one used in the masthead and it will be kept at a horizontal angle. For the website I’ll try keep it on the left underneath the navigation bar. This is so it will be one of the first things people would see.

The masthead for the magazine will be in a different font to that of the rest of the text on the page. I’ll also make it the same silver as the navigation bar on the website. One of the reasons for this is so that it’s different to the rest of the text and stands out better. I have an idea to angle it slightly on the magazine, and the website, just enough to catch your eye but not enough to take up a lot of space.

For the website the masthead will be again in silver and the same font as the magazine. If I do angle it on the magazine I will also angle it onto the website to the same degree. On the magazine I’ll make the masthead take up the width of the page, and if I include a picture I’ll put the masthead behind the image. 

List of links:

·      Home

·      Entertainment

·      Design/tech

·      Magazine

·      Games

·      Style

·      Girls

·      Best Dressed man

Fashion website and magazine design

Website Design

Magazine Design

These are both my website design and my magazine design. These are the hand drawn designs

DCP's 4/10/11

List of DCP's and their definitions


HTTP - Hypertext Transfer (or Transport) Protocol, the data transfer protocol used on the world wide web.


WAP - Short for the wireless application protocol, a set of protocols for connecting mobile phones and other radio     devices to the internet


GSM - Global systems for mobile communications, the dominant 2G digitial mobile phone standard for most of the world. It's another way to connect mobile devices to the internet 


3G - Bascially the same as 2G, but just faster. its the next generation of mobile internet


MMS - Multimedia messaging service, allows mobile phones to recive and send pictures, sound clips and text messages


GPRS - General packet radio service. This is a packet-switched technology that enables data communication over GSM network


Bluetooth - An open wireless technology used for transmitting data over a short distance. It's become a standard for mobile phones and computers.


ADSL - Asynchronous (or asymmetric) digital subscriber line, a method of routing digital data on copper telephone wires. This allows high speed internet access and simultaneous use of the line for voice transmition


Broadband - Broadband refers to telecomunication that provides multiple channels of data over a single communications meduim


VOIP - Voice over internet protocol, a communicatios protocol that allows for voice transmition over the internet.






VOIP in detail


VOIP stands for Voice over internet protocol. It's bacially a protocol that allows voice transmition over the internet, it like using a telephone, but over the internet. It converts analog voice signals into data packets and supports real-time, two-way transmission of conversations. 
It's used a lot of the time without people knowing. Two of the main uses would be for skype / msn and online gaming such as xbox live, the psn network and the Wii. It's also used in apples new 'facetime' and is now a feature on facebook chat. 


One of the best examples of VOIP would be Skype. Since 2003 Skype has gained over 521 million accounts with over 190 billion skype to skype minutes haiving been used. 


VOIP is used for commercial, public and private uses, depending on the consumer. 
Most people use VOIP for comunicating with people around the world, as it costs a lot to use a telephone line to call another country. Companies would use it to contact around the world, but it may also save them money on their phonebill as they can comunicate via the internet they would already be using. 

Voip

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Meme's

What is a Meme?


A Meme is an idea that is spread around the internet. It's normally a phrase, video, picture website or hashtag.


Who creates them and how are they created?


Anyone can create them and they are created by have a certain phrase, picture, video, or a combination of them.


How are Meme's published and who publishes them?


Meme's are published by being posted on certain websites, fourms or social networking sites. They are published by the creater the first time, but then they are re-published by loads of people on loads of different websites.


My Favourite Meme


One of my favourite Meme's is one of freddiew's videos on youtube. "Medal of Honor Cat" is the title of the video and it has 10,834,838 view since it was posted on July 9 2011. It's one of my favourites because when you watch the making of the video, the cat has only been animated very slightly. I also enjoy the video as it has guns in it and  i am a fan of shooter games. 

Legacy of this video


This Meme is the first video that will come up when you type "medal of honor cat" into youtube and google. It has 10,834,838 views and counting and its been up since July 9 2011. This video has been a hit with views of the internet as it combines both guns and cats, 2 of the most googled things. It's also so popular as it's been created by a well known youtuber "freddiew" who is known for creating videos using guns and really good special effects.