Process Book: THUMM Bookazine
Project Type: Bookazine | 28 pages
Deliverables: Printed bookazine, brand identity, custom assets
Creative Brief
Create a 28 page bookazine about the history of mainstream bands, in this case Depeche Mode, using exiting articles, photos, and other assets that must be original.
Brainstorming and Research
For this project, I thought about what I wanted to make a bookazine about since there were so many topics to pick from. After much thought, I decided that I would go with having a bookazine be about the history of mainstream bands (Depeche Mode, Muse, Maroon 5, and so on with each band having their own issue. However, I wanted this bookazine be both visually engaging and informative about the band in question which lead to me picking a grunge aesthetic because of how loud and fun it is to look at. Below are what I researched and brainstormed of certain aspects of my bookazine.
Mood Board
Logo Sketches
Layout Sketches
Ideation
Table of Contents Ideation
Ideation of Visual Spread
Frist Draft of the Text Feature
Brand Guide
Final Product
Flat Images
Mockup
Evaluation
Through the entire project, I did my best to make the best-looking magazine I could do since the last one from last semester was not that great to say the least. I am happy with the results that I made with this new one but work and other projects was not kind to me when it comes to having time on working on this project. I did what I could to make this one look good and have all the necessary pages needed to make this bookazine. I can say the content gathering was much easier than the other magazine I did mostly due to the fact that Depeche Mode is widely popular and have all the necessary content I need to make this one. I did have fun with the photo editing and hand drawn grunge aesthetics because it is something I am not used to doing that often which gave me a bit of a challenge to make them for the bookazine. Doing some of the graphical elements on the iPad is a lot more easy to do than doing it on my laptop since, for some reason, my desktop version of Photoshop was freaking out on me when I tried to use the grunge brushes I downloaded from the official Adobe blog. Even so, I managed to get it done on time. Hopefully the final project is a bit more chill than this one.
All the written content and photos belong to their respective owners. Photo edits and visuals are done by me.
