I tried out different ways to present my Masthead on my Music Magazine cover. The Masthead name will be called 'CROOKED'. This is the name of a well-known single by one of l my favourite artists, G-Dragon. 'CROOKED' can mean Obscurity as well as being different from others, so this will possibly present to most readers that the magazine is based on the Revolution of Korean Music.
To begin with, the first Masthead looked very grunge and bold which is what I am aiming for in my magazine. It shows a good effect as I have added two borders to the text. The two borders create a shadow and creates the illusion that the black text is coming out to the reader.
However, I believe the font is too much as the magazine will look slightly more smart and organised than this. Also, I think that the Masthead is too messy for the Magazine style.
The second one I made has a creative look to it. This Masthead looks as though it is from a Fashion magazine. Even though I am creating a Music Magazine, I feel as though this one is the best so far as it shows a neat, architectural feel to it.
On the other hand, I think that this Masthead is too neat and looks like the sort of Masthead you would get in a highly mature and professional magazine such as a House Designing magazine. To me, it does not have the characteristics of a Grunge music magazine.
On the other hand, I think that this Masthead is too neat and looks like the sort of Masthead you would get in a highly mature and professional magazine such as a House Designing magazine. To me, it does not have the characteristics of a Grunge music magazine.
The third magazine is similar to the first one. The masthead has a red outline to the text in order to make the font pop out. Also, the background is a pale brown along with a thick, red outline. This allows the masthead to not blend into the background of the cover image.
In my opinion, I would not use this masthead for my final piece for many reasons. Firstly, the bordered background does not give a professional look to the magazine as I feel as though the Masthead should not have a background to it. Having a background to the masthead will ruin the 3 colour rule and it would be difficult to obtain that goal of keeping the 3 colours.
In conclusion, I do not believe the first or third masthead look professional enough for my music magazine. However, I do not believe the second masthead would be suitable as it looks too upper class for the grunge-style magazine.
I would like to combine two of the mastheads, this will be the first and second mastheads. I will use the red colours from the first masthead and place them onto the arch of the second one. I will keep the second masthead's font as I feel this shows that the magazine is quite a grunge/elegant music magazine. Most grunge Korean idols use the idea of elegance and the grunge look combined to make it eye-catching for the reader.
I have made a few more Mastheads in order to figure out my final design:
I only made these in order to explore more ways into using Photoshop and Dafont combined.
The text shows erosion and has an urban feel to it. This is what I wished for when looking at different fonts. The Colour goes well with the overall magazine colour scheme as it contains Dark red with a Black border and shadow. This created a bold look along with an distorted style.
I have made a few more Mastheads in order to figure out my final design:
I only made these in order to explore more ways into using Photoshop and Dafont combined.
Conclusion: I feel as though I will be using this as my Final Masthead Design:
