New Edition: Contemporary Publishing Magazine is a corporate magazine for authors that I conceptualised, designed and produced for 6 issues. The brief was to create a monthly magazine for authors that would be engaging, stylish and bold. Working with a colleague, I came up with the name, mission statement and aesthetic concept, before designing and contributing articles to the first 6 issues.
Each issue has a different theme running through it, with the cover art, contents page and introductory paragraph setting the scene for many of the design tropes that run throughout. I wanted to create consistency in the magazine design from issue to issue without sacrificing the opportunity to give each article a character of its own.
As I don't have a design background and I am self-taught on all of the software, there is a clear progression in quality through the 6 issues, which can be read in full here (I worked on issues 1-6).
Front covers, issues 1-6
Contents pages. Due to the short length of each issue, I was able to use a nice grid layout throughout.
Three-page spread about multimedia author Rohan Quine and his book The Imaginationn Thief. Wonderfully, the word 'unconventional' has 'novel' in the right order within it!
Three page spread on the history of comic books.
Physical print of the contents and introduction to issue 2.
Double page about author Tom Canty.
The opening to issue 6. The pop art theme of the issue is carred through the contents to the introduction article.
Double page, summer themed article suggestiing some books to read.
Phycial print of an article on literary agent Gordon Wise from issue 2.
Simple, bold layout for a double-page spread.
;Scrapbook' article reviewing the company's contribution to the LBF AuthorLounge.
Three-page spread (also written by me) interviewing literary agent Hellie Ogden.
All of this work was done while working for Authoright, so the work belongs to them. It is all available to view here.
