Arr! This be my Digital Publishing final. We had to choose a social issue to design a magazine and magazine spread around. So yes, I did design Lime Magazine, mine having no affiliation with the actual, Asian-oriented Lime Magazine. I am particularly happy with the nameplate, though; I think it would stand out in a magazine rack. For the spread, I went with so-called ’slacktivism’ (wearing meaningless ribbons and lapel pins that don’t make a lick of difference.) There was no actual article written about it, so I had to splice together a few blog posts. I went sort of abstract with the cover, but I think it turned out well.

I then tried to incorporate the illustration through out the article to tie it all together. You’ll also notice the bottom banners as well as page number markers added as if they were the magazine’s proprietary assets.

FYI, those gray borders are only there as a matte for the WordPress post so that you can tell where the images end.

Clearly, this isn’t my best work, but I’ve certainly done worse

I am, however, a bit disappointed that I didn’t get to use my original table of contents design:

I love how the picture came out -made from scratch, I might add- but it had absolutely no business being next to the other images. In the end, it got cut for the sake of cohesion.

Made with (in no particular order) Maya 2008, Photoshop, Illustrator, and (for the first time ever) InDesign CS3.