GRD 4100 - Print & Editoral Design

Infographic and Digital Sketches

I'm thinking about doing an app for Threads magazine. I think that being able to refer back to "how-to" guides from your phone might be more practical than remembering to carry your magazine around all the time.
  

Readers will be able to from "step by step" to an enlarged one step at a time that you can scroll through by pressing the forward and back buttons.

For my infographic I was thinking about comparing use of different "Pantone fashion colors" from last year, or possibly last season. I was thinking that the pie graph would be made of thread (yay!)

But I was talking to the wonderful Andy Hu and he was wondering why my inforgraphic wasn't about buttons, since my feature spread was about buttons...so I made a (terrible) quick sketch of comparing the popularity of different types of buttons.

More Infographic Ideas

I keep coming across some great examples of things that could easily be turned into an infographic for color portion of my magazine. I just wanted to post these examples so that I could remember them.


http://www.designworklife.com/2013/02/01/olivia-king-hand-drawn-infographics/?utm_source=feedburner


http://designspiration.net/image/435559928723/

Threads Magazine Update

Table of Contents Sketches:

For these first two, I'm thinking about making a grid with pictures (like a quilt! eh?) that correlate to the articles, and either having information about the articles underneath the pictures (like the first image) or to the left of them (like the second). But these are also starting to look like the collage page so I might need to back off of the gridded images.

This one is less developed, but I was thinking that there would be one image (or maybe a few) occupying the top center space. Underneath this image block, there would be three, maybe four, columns that list the contents with smaller images mixed in.

Covers, finally.

This first one is most likely what I'm going with. It SUPPOSED to be (hopefully my drawing expresses this) a close up of a sewing machine that is in the process of sewing a blind hem. One of the "how-to" articles will be how to sew a blind hem, so that fits.

These last two are just showing process of other possibilities for covers.

Threads Magazine Nameplate

Threads Magazine Nameplate Sketches

Welcome to my head, everyone.

Threads is a sewing magazine. It has helpful tips and diagrams that show you how to sew. The tutorials are for very basic to complex patterns.

This is a quick mood board that I put together. 

And here are the initial sketches. I think I'm leaning towards the first row variations.