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inspiration for illustration

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At the start of the project we began to brainstorm things that surround the mental health theme and pertain to all of us as a collective. The main themes: We were all part of the ethnic minority in the UK and we were young adults. We then tried to think of ways we could present our idea- we talked about posters, motion graphics and graphic novels. We decided that a magazine would be the best way to go in order to incorperate all our ideas.

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what is gal-dem?

gal-dem is a new media publication, committed to telling the stories of people of colour from marginalised genders. With our online and print magazine, we’re addressing inequality and misrepresentation in the industry through platforming the creative and editorial work of our community across essays, opinion, news, arts, music, politics and lifestyle content.

(Gal-dem is a popular young adults magazine and their aims are very similar to ours. Their style and they way they layout their magazine is very minimalist and includes illustrations aswell as photographs which is something that we hope to achieve)

https://gal-dem.com

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This is our chosen colour scheme inspired by scientific evidence that colour influences mood.
Also the green ribbon is the international symbol for mental health awareness.

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The first publication to was the exist German Erbauliche Monaths Unterredungen, released in the year 1663.

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Colour psychology is the study of hues as a determinant of human behavior. Colour influences perceptions that are not obvious, such as the taste of food. Colours have qualities that can cause certain emotions in people. It is widely used in marketing and branding. It helped us determine colour scheme for our magazine

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Breathe magazine is the original mindfulness mag for a calmer and more relaxed you. This body-and-soul guide to a happier, healthier life includes 5 sections – wellbeing, living, mindfulness, creativity and escape. The aim of Breathe magazine is to help you “make more time for yourself”. Each issue includes illustrations, craft projects, and inspiring features such as how to achieve relief from stress, increase resilience and find greater happiness.

The simplistic design of the front page reflects the purpose of the magazine.

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https://www.behance.net/gallery/85644965/MOODY-Magazine-on-Mental-Health

Moody Magazine is a fictional magazine created by Ira Kolokot. Her magazine is targeted towards issues such as; depression and anxiety, confused thinking and bipolar disorder. The usage of images could represent the neurological pathways in the mind or a state of confusion. The usage of colour is also something to take on board. Kolokot named the magazine ‘Moody’ because Kolokot believes that all mental illnesses stem from mood or behavioural changes.

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We’re on a mission to create a healthier, happier, more sustainable society. Our aim is to provide informative, inspiring and topical stories about mental health and wellbeing. We want to break the stigma of mental health in our society, and to shine a light on the positivity and support that should be available for everyone, no matter their situation.

https://issuu.com/happiful/docs/happiful_march_2021

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relating to how we can use our selected colour scheme in the magazine

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This diagram helped us create our cover page. We wanted the cover to be minimalistic and mainly focus on the title and image. The main issue was thst our image contained different light and dark colour and our text needed to align to the main colour scheme. So we made the subheadings as minimalistic as possible.

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The usage of colour and layout is something to take on board when it comes to using our own colour scheme in for statistic pages.

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Inspiration for storyboard
-The text remains small and the colour coded lines help readers know what they're looking at.

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Inspiration for storyboard
&Sub-headings are have contrast in boldness or are colour-coded

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Doll Hospital is an art and literature print journal on mental health. They feature work with an intersectional focus, and stand unapologetically in our trauma.

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What is anxiety?
Anxiety is what we feel when we are worried, tense or afraid – particularly about things that are about to happen, or which we think could happen in the future.

What is stress?

Situations or events that put pressure on us – for example, times where we have lots to do and think about, or don't have much control over what happens.

Our reaction to being placed under pressure – the feelings we get when we have demands placed on us that we find difficult to cope with.

What is depression?
Depression is a low mood that lasts for a long time, and affects your everyday life.

What is self-esteem?
Self-esteem is how we value and perceive ourselves. It's based on our opinions and beliefs about ourselves, which can sometimes feel really difficult to change.

(We chose to focus on mental health issues that affect young adults the most.)

https://www.mind.org.uk/information-support/types-of-mental-health-problems/

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Research- Black Mental Health Websites and statistics

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Research- Black Mental Health Websites and statistics

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We gathered information through these links and also used some to make our magazine interactive.
Mental health charities for the black community
Black Thrive
www.blackthrive.org.uk/our-work-and-projects/
Mind Charity
www.mind.org.uk/about-us/our-policy-work/equality-and-human-rights/young-black-men/

https://www.mhanational.org/issues/black-and-african-american-communities-and-mental-health

https://www.mind.org.uk/media-a/4300/ums-report.pdf

(Black/african/asian) statistics
https://www.mentalhealth.org.uk/a-to-z/b/black-asian-and-minority-ethnic-bame-communities

https://www.rethink.org/advice-and-information/living-with-mental-illness/wellbeing-physical-health/black-asian-and-minority-ethnic-mental-health/

https://www.mhanational.org/issues/black-and-african-american-communities-and-mental-health

https://www.mind.org.uk/media-a/4300/ums-report.pdf

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Research Eastern European Men statistics

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Research Eastern European Men statistics

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We gathered information through these links and gathered information for the text and also used some to make our magazine interactive

https://promundoglobal.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Understanding-Young-Men-Masculinities-Balkans-Implications-Health-Development-Peace.pdf

https://www.euro.who.int/en/health-topics/noncommunicable-diseases/mental-health/publications/2020/mental-health,-men-and-culture-how-do-sociocultural-constructions-of-masculinities-relate-to-mens-mental-health-help-seeking-behaviour-in-the-who-european-region-2020

https://www.healtheuropa.eu/men-mental-health/83711/

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For primary research we conducted a survey via Google Forms which looked into different attitudes towards mental health issues in the BAME communities.

We used the result findings in our magazine and added it to the website for visitors to use in order to feature in the next issue.

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*Source for anxiety in the african community page 

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I am not always the proud, independent, strong black woman and here's why...

When I was diagnosed with Social Anxiety, some of my black family disapproved. I remember my aunt telling me, "You're not an anxious girl, you're just shy. Black women aren't supposed to be weak, and neither are you. You need to stop acting like you have problems when you don't!"

Those words seared into my mind like a branding iron. I was denied my chance to end the stereotype. Even worse, I was feeling "not black enough."

As a black woman, weakness is never an option. Either I push through the struggle, or I find another way to fight back. Anxiety was another reason to "keep me in my place."

According to the NBC news article, A Look at How Anxiety Affects African-Americans, "Anxiety is the most common mental health disorder in the United States and impacts African-Americans at a higher rate than any other group - especially African-American women."

Why do I have to mask my anxieties to please my fellow woman of color? Can we ever find a solution to break this stigma of mental health in the black community?

We need to break down these common stereotypes and find the source of the problem.

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I Want You to Understand Why Black Mental Health is Taboo

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I am not always the proud, independent, strong black woman and here's why... When I was diagnosed with Social Anxiety, some of my black family disapproved. I remember my aunt telling me, "You're not an anxious girl, you're just shy. Black women aren't supposed to be weak, and neither are you.

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Milo's spreads (for initial draft) on mens's health

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Milo's spreads (for initial draft) on mens's health

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3 Grid -
The reason I chose the three grid column was so it gives us more freedom as we wanted to include quite a few elements but at the same time I wanted to keep that professional magazine visual hierarchy so I decided it would be best suited. I think having more would remind of a newspaper and any less could not give the same control over the page as we wanted.

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the story is a interview of middle age man who are struggling with depression and how he feels when he got depression
This text is used in the magazine

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Red- inspiration from other artists
Blue - Black mental health
Green- Asian mental health
Yellow- Men's mental health

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Household Words was an English weekly magazine published in the 1850s by Charles Dickens.

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decided to create an infographic to express the result of our questionnaire.
our questionnaires has the  data analysis and some conversation came from people.
we decided to use webpages as background to shows the result findings, and for the data, each part chart will give the datas.
(inspiration for infographic)

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sketches and improvement of infographic 

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sketches and improvement of infographic 

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research of mental health of east asian country
1) reason
2) the basic data of mental health issue
3) development the issue facing
4) conclusion
Links to statistics- https://www.mentalhealth.org.uk/a-to-z/b/black-asian-and-minority-ethnic-bame-communities

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The reason we choose mental health as our brief
1) mental health issues are at an all-time high  especially especially amongst teenagers and young people
2) we and our friends all have the experiences of mental health issues, so we are more familiar with it
3) compared with other options on brief, mental health is more interesting

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the story is from a girl who are bothered with depression and anxiety because of the pressure and Unreasonable behaviour from her family. This text is used in the magazine

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experience of spreads on asian community 

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experience of spreads on asian community 

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this is the experience of spreads on asian community, in these spreads, the colour and layout is depressed and hopeless, however, it is not the final outcome.

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we created a logo of valid which is the word "valid" for our magazine, inspiration it's be bold and creative, that people could easier to recognize it, also, we want to add the characterizes of our group - the ethnic group.

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To add to 'useful website/charities' page

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To add to 'useful website/charities' page

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Mental health charities for the black community
Black Thrive
www.blackthrive.org.uk/our-work-and-projects/
Mind Charity
www.mind.org.uk/about-us/our-policy-work/equality-and-human-rights/young-black-men/

Chinese Mental Health Association
Provides a diverse range of services for Chinese people who experience mental health issues and their carers.
www.cmha.org.uk
Black Minds Matter UK
www.blackmindsmatteruk.com/
Anxiety UK
Charity providing support if you have been diagnosed with an anxiety condition.
Phone: 03444 775 774 (Monday to Friday, 9.30am to 5.30pm)
www.anxietyuk.org.uk

Bipolar UK
A charity helping people living with manic depression or bipolar disorder.
www.bipolaruk.org.uk

CALM
CALM is the Campaign Against Living Miserably. A charity providing a mental health helpline and webchat.
Phone: 0800 58 58 58 (daily, 5pm to midnight)
Website: www.thecalmzone.net

Men's Health Forum
24/7 stress support for men by text, chat and email.
Website: www.menshealthforum.org.uk

Mental Health Foundation
Provides information and support for anyone with mental health problems or learning disabilities.
Website: www.mentalhealth.org.uk

Mind
Promotes the views and needs of people with mental health problems.
Phone: 0300 123 3393 (Monday to Friday, 9am to 6pm)
Website: www.mind.org.uk

No Panic
Voluntary charity offering support for sufferers of panic attacks and obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD). Offers a course to help overcome your phobia or OCD.
Phone: 0300 772 9844 (daily, 10am to 10pm). Calls cost 5p per minute plus your phone provider's Access Charge
Website: www.nopanic.org.uk
Email: sarah@nopanic.org.uk

OCD Action
Support for people with OCD. Includes information on treatment and online resources.
Phone: 0845 390 6232 (Monday to Friday, 9.30am to 5pm). Calls cost 5p per minute plus your phone provider's Access Charge
Website: www.ocdaction.org.uk

OCD UK
A charity run by people with OCD, for people with OCD. Includes facts, news and treatments.
Phone: 0333 212 7890 (Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm)
Website: www.ocduk.org

PAPYRUS
Young suicide prevention society.
Phone: HOPElineUK 0800 068 4141 (9am to midnight, every day of the year)
Website: www.papyrus-uk.org

Rethink Mental Illness
Support and advice for people living with mental illness.
Phone: 0808 801 0525 (Monday to Friday, 9.30am to 4pm)
Website: www.rethink.org

Samaritans
Confidential support for people experiencing feelings of distress or despair.
Phone: 116 123 (free 24-hour helpline)
Website: www.samaritans.org.uk

SANE
Emotional support, information and guidance for people affected by mental illness, their families and carers.
Textcare: comfort and care via text message, sent when the person needs it most: www.sane.org.uk/textcare
Peer support forum: www.sane.org.uk/supportforum
Website: www.sane.org.uk/support

YoungMinds
Information on child and adolescent mental health. Services for parents and professionals.
Phone: Parents' helpline 0808 802 5544 (Monday to Friday, 9.30am to 4pm)
Website: www.youngminds.org.uk

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What makes up culture?

Many different things make up a society's culture. These things include food, language, clothing, tools, music, arts, customs, beliefs, and religion. The term ethnicity may be used to describe the cultural background of a person.

Traditional cultural paterns from specific parts of the world will be included as illustrations

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The hand-drawn aesthetic here is interesting and the use of colours is reminiscent of patchwork. It's similar to how we're interweaving different cultures into one magazine.

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When people view shapes, a multitude of psychological occur. Each attributing different emotions, thoughts, and perceptions that resonate with our brain-the viewers' brains. Shapes are the main part of graphic design by choosing the shapes which provoke the desire response, designers are able to influence the way in which people feel about the design and ultimately, how they perceive the shapes stand for. It means, we can use these shapes to transmit different feelings to the viewer as people may not notice these shapes directly but they will get an important impact on their feelings and behavior after they saw it and we as graphic designers can use these elements to reinforce a message through our design. In this case, intelligent and successful designers are perfectly aware of the reaction their designs have and how these can change according to variables such as age, gender, culture, and social preferences.

Since many years ago, experts have studied how different shapes can affect people's behavior and identify persona of each viewer as every shape has its own meaning and influence differently to the viewer's mind. This doesn't happen by coincidence, this is called the psychology of shapes. To discover more about how you can use the psychology of shape in design to create more meaningful design, first, we need to understand what the hidden messages in shapes are and in this article we will show you the different types of shapes and how to use it in graphic design.

Squares and Rectangles

The most common shapes on graphic design are squares and rectangles. We always see them easily in our daily life because these shapes are the most common in design layouts. Square shapes are formed by straight lines and right angles that give viewers a sense of reliability and security and these attributes make people feel safe and contained.

Something to carefully consider when using squares though is not be considered too boring. Without the correct use of color, shading, and effects then a square or rectangle can portray dull and a lack of imagination for many viewers.

Triangles

If you want to represent stability, balance, and movement in your design, triangles are the right shape to use. Triangles commonly defined as energetic and dynamic shape attributes that makes triangles used to represent motion and direction.

Usually, viewers will see to the top of the triangle shape automatically, If triangles are facing left or right, it represents progression: either forwards in the sense of moving onward, or backwards in the sense of backtracking or dwelling in the past. Consider the iconic "play" button for videos. It's worth noting that which side represents which depends on the direction that culture reads; in Western cultures that read left-to-right, a right-facing arrow represents forward progression.

Circles, Ovals and Ellipses

Circles-and other circular shapes like ovals and ellipses-are one of the most classic shape in design. Circles unlike other geometric shapes, don't have angles, and it makes circles feel softer and milder than others shapes. Commonly they represent both unity and protection. Circular shapes are much friendlier shape than the others for encompassing other images within. Because they tend to "invite" the viewers into their "completeness".

In web design, circle shapes are commonly used for small icons. They are one of the most popular shapes for designers because they are very noticeable and simple but very powerful graphic elements and it will put viewers at ease to see them. Circles never stop, and so neither does the eye when viewing them, giving them a childlike whimsy.

Pentagons, Hexagons and Octagons

When you think of pentagons, hexagons, and octagons shapes all around us, the most relatable objects that use these polygons shapes are nuts and bolt heads. They are the predominantly used polygons shape for nuts and bolts because of their unique features. That polygons are not very often used in design projects due to their complexity, but we can see polygon shapes to represent real elements from our daily lives in form of icons or logos.

These polygons due their geometric nature are also used as puzzle pieces to create larger compositions and organize the information in your design, and are very common especially in infographic design.

Abstract Shapes

When using abstract shapes, however, keep in mind that the individual aspects you use retain their symbolism from their original shapes. It will be a visual symbol that can be abstract ideas or simplified versions of an organic shape, in some cases abstract shape can be difficult to associate with some ideas due to their abstract anatomy, and in some cases, the idea is behind a small detail of the shape. What that means is, if you use the top-half of a circle and the bottom half of a square, you will create an abstract shape that exhibits both the playful features of a circle and the serious features of a square.

You can craft an abstract shape to meet whatever needs you may have. Maybe you want to create something the world has never seen before in order to stand out from the crowd. Using abstract shapes can have infinite meanings as they literally can represent anything in any way.

Shapes play a crucial role in all graphic design projects, they will transmit your goals, what they do and their philosophy by using the right shape in design. Shapes will influence how viewers perceive and react to it. Making informed decisions about the use of shapes, color, fonts, and overall composition will lead to a design that resonates with your target audience while inspiring trust and confidence in your projects or brand.

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Psychology of shapes in Design: how different shapes can affect people behavior

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When people view shapes, a multitude of psychological occur. Each attributing different emotions, thoughts, and perceptions that resonate with our brain-the viewers' brains. Shapes are the main part of graphic design by choosing the shapes which provoke the desire response, designers are able to influence the way in which people feel about the design and ultimately, how they perceive the shapes stand for.

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Just like each page has its own structure so does the magazine. Todays magazines follow the same structure and although there are magazines that do not follow this approach we can say that this is a default one.
In the future posts we will cover some of the pages presented in this article in more deeper and thorough way.

Magazines consist of four parts. Cover pages, front of the book, feature well and back of the book.

Cover pages

The first cover is reserved, of course, for the cover page. Second one, marked in flatplan as C2 is reserved for advertising. This is the second most expensive ad page.
Third cover page, C3, is again reserved for advertisers and it is third most expensive ad page in the magazine. Last cover page, C4, is on the back of the magazine and it is most expensive ad page.

We will talk much more about cover pages in our forthcoming free ebook that we are preparing for you.

Front of the book

This part of the magazine consists of several key pages.

Table of contents - this is always the first page of the magazine. Table of contents can be laid out on one page, two page spread, or on two pages intersected with advertising. Ad pages are almost always on the right.
Advertisers prefer the right hand side of the magazine because is is more visible than the left hand pages.
Table of contents can be designed with or without the images but is is important to distinct the TOC elements so that the reader can understand what is page number, what is the headline of the topic and what is a short description of the topic if you want to include it. Good typographic choice and skill is crucial here.

Impressum - This is the part of the magazine that is usually placed in the front of the book, although some magazines place it at the back of the magazine.
Impressum or masthead is the list of all people that work in the magazine. From the editorial staff to marketing and ad sales people to publishers and key people in the publishing house that is producing the magazine.
The design of this page is pretty straightforward and clean. Magazine masthead (logo) is usually placed at the top of this page.

Editor's Letter - This is first editorial page in the magazine. It is welcoming letter from the editor-in-chief in which he or she explains the content of the issue. It depends on the style of the publication and the editor's journalism voice but it basically covers the main topics in the issue but also it can contain some thoughts about the topics this magazine covers in general. For example if the magazine in hand is a political weekly than the editor's letter can cover some political events that happened just before the magazine's issue date.

Other key pages in front of the book - Generally every magazine wants to start with short one page topics. Depending on the topic that magazine covers, these pages can contain news sections, reviews, topics about society, culture, arts, events and so on. Short one page interviews, columns and opinions can be placed here also.

These pages have a uniform, standardized design that is changed just slightly from issue to issue. Everything is set in its place and follows rigid grid structure.

In my opinion these pages look better when they are intersected with ad pages. This approach gives nice rhythm and flow because the next part of the magazine, the feature well, is filled with pages full of articles and there is rarely any advertising there.

Readers letters and opinions are almost always placed at the front of the book. Just after editor's letter. But again, this is not a rule set in stone.

Another page that is used a lot lately is so called "section start" page. This is the page that generally opens a certain section of the magazine (news section, beauty section, listings...). It can be used both in front and in the back of the book.

Feature well

This is the largest part of the magazine. It contains main features. These articles can be short ones, just a few pages long, or longer ones, spanning for more than ten pages.
When organizing features in the flatplan it is better to intersect short ones with long ones. For example, 10 page article can be followed by 4 page article instead another 10 page article. This gives better flow, or rhythm to the magazine.
Design related these are the articles in which designers have the biggest freedom, although certain style of the publication should be followed.

It is important to state that the each feature should be visibly different than the other one because the reader may get confused if he doesn't know where one feature ends and another starts.

Choice of colors plays a big role here. You don't want to have two features one by the other designed with, for example, red as a dominant color. This is why you should print out your pages and tape them on the wall in order they are marked in the flatplan. In this way you will clearly see what needs to be changed.

Of course there are magazines that do not follow this approach. There are magazines that are very uniform in their layout. Their features differ very slightly, if at all.

In feature well you won't see that many ads.

Back of the book

This part of the magazine contains the remaining content from the front of the book, shorter articles, news, listings, remaining columns, horoscope and so on.
Again just like the front of the book, this part of the magazine follows the rigid structure and design is changed just slightly from issue to issue.

Although the back of the book is considered less important than the front, especially from the advertisers point of view, editors should not place only less interesting stuff here. This part should also be filled with good useful information.
Generally, advertising is cheaper in this part of the magazine and here you can find so called "classified" ads. Smaller ads, 1/4 of a page up to 1/16 of a page, are grouped together and placed on these pages.
Depending on the nature of the magazine, last page is reserved for columnist, short essay, short interview or some similar laid back content.

This is a general view of the magazine structure. You will see many magazines that stray away from this approach but this kind of structure is the default one and should be used as such. A reference point which you can lately alter to your publication's needs.

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Columns are essential tools to standardize your layout. They will help you in getting order and structure of your magazine, but do resist to imprison your thinking into standard format because rigidity dulls the creativity. To avoid that trap you can play with column width and shapes. You should treat each story as a separate unit and mix the number of columns in each story. One story can be laid out on a two column grid while the other can be laid out in three, four or more column grid.
In this article we will talk more about columns as a design element and in another separated article we will talk about the width of the columns and the number of characters that would be ideal for such columns. Line length (the number of characters or words per line) is closely related to column width and those two terms should work together as a unit and since this subject is very important for proper column setup it deserves an article on its own.

But let's go back to columns as design element and take a look at several typical column sizes.

The unwritten rule is to design more important stories on fewer columns. For example your main story in the magazine should be done on a two column grid. This will give more importance to the story, it will look more elegant and the reader won't have to jump to the next line of text so often.

Less important stories like news sections can be laid out in 4 or more columns. Since these articles are shorter in length they do not need wide columns and can be placed in narrower ones because reading them will take very little time.

Depending on your design of various parts of the magazine your columns can vary in width. No one says that your text blocks should be equally wide. You can even mix several types of columns on one page. For example your main text can be set across two columns, while below it you can place a list, which has short text blocks, on a 4 column grid.

One column

Used very rarely. Text laid out in this one very wide column can look dull and heavy since lots of it can be poured into the column. If you opt for this option your text should be larger in size with larger leading. Readers will get lost in columns that have more than 80 characters in one row. Generally the ideal number of characters for best legibility would be around 60 characters per row.

You can make it more elegant and interesting if you make outer margin much wider, thus making column much narrower. By making this column narrower you can make the text size smaller along with its leading, but don't go over 60-65 characters in a row. Type size for such columns should be around 9-12 points, depending on the fonts you use.

Since a lot of white space will be left on the outer part of the page you can fill it with images or you can leave it white for a more dignified look. These types of layouts are commonly used in editor's letters at the beginning of the magazines.

Two columns

As stated earlier, mostly used in top stories in magazines. Again do not use maximum space on the page. Make some room around columns, give them some space. You can also make bigger outer margin and make two narrower columns which will bring some drama to the page.

Three columns

This number of columns also provides for an elegant layout and big stories can be laid out in this way. You can break this column with some pull out quote spread across two columns. This is a great tool to break a page a bit and add some splash to the page. In three column layout your number of characters should drop way below 60, ideal number would be around 40-50 characters, or you can reduce type size.

Four columns

This is a great number to use because now you can play with different column widths. Your text can be laid out in two, two column wide, blocks or you can lay it out in three columns and leave the fourth one for the images or some pullout quote.

If you are going to put text in all four columns you should reduce the text size and your character should be around 30-35 characters. You can use one column, which will be very narrow, for some small pieces of information. Font of your choice can be some condensed type but make sure your text is not too long because reading long condensed text is not pleasing to the eye.

Four column layout gives much space for improvisation and you can use this number of columns for unexpected and dramatic layouts.

Five columns

This number of columns you will see mostly in the news sections, culture sections and other informational part of the magazine. Again as in four column layout you can play around with two or three adjacent columns. Place the most important story on the page in one wide column and use other columns for less important stories. Combining columns will allow you infinite possibilities and variations in layout. Use this to your advantage to create dynamic layouts.

You will rarely use only one column as placeholder for your text, because it will be too narrow. It can be used for very short text blocks, like image captions. Narrower columns should have smaller type size.

Six, seven, nine, twelve columns

When you have so many columns you won't be placing text in one column since it is too narrow for the text but you should use them as a flexible tool at your command.

You can use such a narrow column for short image captions.

Mix several columns into one and opposite it to another text block consisting of few other columns. For example you can lay out text in 4 combined columns and use another for pull out quotes, additional info or you can place small images into them.

Twelve columns are not common in magazine design, because there is rarely any need for them. They are common in newspapers where you have to lay out lots of small chunks of text, and the text is then placed in two columns that represents one column. In this case you get 6 column layout, or you can use those columns in any other variation necessary.

Columns are a great way to keep everything organized and structured, but they do not have to be dull. Use them as your playground and mix them up and you will get unexpected results that will make your layouts stand out. Of course, do not overdo it and keep an eye on your type sizes.

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Magazine Columns - Backbone of Every Good Layout

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Columns are essential tools to standardize your layout. They will help you in getting order and structure of your magazine, but do resist to imprison your thinking into standard format because rigidity dulls the creativity. To avoid that trap you can play with column width and shapes. You should...

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1. Front cover

2. Our aims (Rachel’s Paragraph)

3. About us (a couple sentences about our experiences with mental health +illustrations of each of us )

4. Contents page

5. Definitions of the most common types of mental health (“A guide to” for each and tips…) Anxiety -title and definitions - the webpage that keziah made.

6. Page of personal stories (interviews) - use different color to express each one’s stories

7. Stress - color similar with the depression one, maybe lighter color with blue - what is stress, how to define stress and what specifc concern with stress

8. Depression - blue as the color bond for example font, image, background - how to relief depression and save ourselves, what is depression, the difference between depression and stress

9. Rachel’s questionnaire findings

10. Self-esteem

11. Websites and charities

12. Back cover

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https://anxymag.com/
Interesting use of imagery to express what anger is

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improvement

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Valid Magazine is the place where people from the BAME community can come together and learn more about mental health issues. Our magazine is woven with different stories and experiences by people from different backgrounds. The purpose is to encourage and inspire thought and provide better insight into mental health issues. The pages will be peppered with interactive links that lead to charities and websites. There will also be engaging illustrations to look at whilst flicking through.

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issuu is an electronic publishing platform that offers a number of magazines, catalogues, newspapers, and other online browsing.
and we are going to use issuu as the platfom to publish the e-magazine

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1)front pages and cover
2) introduction
-our aim
-our magazine
-our story
3) content page
4) DEPRESSION
-black community/man's mental health/east euro
-personal story
-to do list
5) anxiety
-asian community
-personal story
-black community and man's health
6)questionnaire
7) conclusion
8) back cover
9) charity surrounding the contents.

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For these illustrations I was inspired by early 2000s webpages and wanted to incorporate the text within the illustration instead of having it seperately.

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Main titles- Museo Slab 900
Text- Museo Slab 100/500 - 13pt
Subheadings- museo slab 300
Line spacing- 15.6pt
Links- 18pts ALL CAPS

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When we do the design of the general layout, we test it in the place of some small elements. For example the choice of images and the placement of small illustrations.

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Open Peeps is a hand-drawn illustration library—a system of doodles. we can use them as the portrait illustration on our magazine free, and we select some of doodles with different emotions

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Keziah's illustration (for initial draft)

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Keziah's illustration (for initial draft)

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Idea for page in magazine

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some drawing sketch of magazine layout could be used on magazine

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(including process for the animation)

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Before the year 1501 in Europe, the printing technology was not at the stage to be able to publish texts on both sides of a page. An incunabulum (plural; incunabula) is a book printed on a single sheet. In Latin "incunabulum" translates literally to "swaddling clothes" or "bands holding the baby in a cradle." The word first appeared in English in the 19th century, referring retroactively to those books produced in the first decades of printing press technology. However, the first recorded use, as a printing term, is in De ortu et progressu artis typographicae, Of the rise and progress of the typographic art, a pamphlet by Bernard von Mallinckrodt, published in Cologne in 1639.

Famous incunabula include the Gutenberg Bible of 1455 and the Liber Chronicarum of Hartmann Schedel, printed by Anton Koberger in 1493. Other well-known incunabula printers include Albrecht Pfister of Bamberg, Günther Zainer of Augsburg, Johann Mentelin of Strasbourg and William Caxton of Bruges and London.

http://guity-novin.blogspot.com/2012/04/modern-newspaper-magazine-layouts.html

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There are many geometrical constructions that can produce a beautiful page, but the golden section is usually cited as the most successful. By adding a square, with sides equal the long side, to the long side it is possible to arrive at the next measurement in the sequence to give a bigger rectangle of the same proportions. This also works in reverse in order to make a smaller rectangle, that is subtracting a square with sides equal to the short side of the rectangle, and extending it to become a rectangle one can produce a smaller golden triangle.

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A minimalistic approach- the image does the talking. Information organised by grids.

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Visual reference suggestion for illustration

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Potential inspiration for illustrations/infographics

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Ideas for typography design

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A good way to organise statistics

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1979 Hallmark Disco Stickers JasonLiebig

We ended up making a sticker section for the magazine

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Idea to add writing and motivational elements into the magazine

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deviantart.com

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'Banana peel' sticker - could have a tick in the middle with valid underneath

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Here is some experimentation for the word valid. We were looking for something simplistic yet complex in design. We chose the thinner block letter version and then duplicated the 'i' and used different skin tones to provide more context to our brand name.

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Patterns that could be drawn into the African/black community section

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Little Maker @dribbble.com

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This draft was inspired by breathe magazine. We used colours to represent diversity in skin tones. It shows that this magazine promotes diversity.

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We intend to use photos with different ethnic characteristics as front cover, such as people's skin colour and facial features- inspired by the page cover example which reminded up of patchwork. It shows that our magazine invites diversity.

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Animation

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E-Magazine Link

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the Valid magazine is a digital mental health magazine ran by four university students who happen to be part of Ethnic Minorities in the UK.... See More

the Valid magazine is a digital mental health magazine ran by four university students who happen to be part of Ethnic Minorities in the UK.... See More

Connecting content to people.

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the Valid magazine is a digital mental health magazine ran by four university students who happen to be part of Ethnic Minorities in the UK. It's a place where different communities can come together and talk about one thing- mental health. Valid magazine is unique, fresh, and relatable.