Contents Page Research + Development

Contents Page Research 

 These are some content pages of a travel magazine. 

Images

Contents pages in travel magazines usually feature multiple locations of different locations that will be featured in the magazine. These images are usually long-shot aesthetic images and are aesthetically pleasing.

White Spacing

The contents pages in travel magazines always use white borders effectively, so that the image becomes the main subject; not the text. Most magazines use this type of layout to be able to contrast with the text. However, a lot of different content pages also use no white spacing as they wanted to show the full image that they have captured. 

Development 

Here is the development process for my content page. 

Here are some sketches for my content pages 

I liked the first and fourth designs so I will try to digitalize them both.

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I decided to develop the second one as it fits into the conventions that I have researched; where the contents pages usually contain multiple different images of the locations they are showcasing. Furthermore, the white spacing in the right contents pages also conforms to the conventions making it look more recognised as a travel magazine.

2

Here I changed the alignment of the text making it justified. This makes the overall viewing text and images neater.

3

A friend suggested that I connect the horizon/skyline to the images next to it so that it would have an effect of 1 singular image or that these images connect with each other. This effect looks better than the previous one as the images are arranged more neatly. 

Here are more different layouts i tried with different combinations of titles, typography and spacing. On the very right I have also added the magazine name with the issue date at the bottom left. This is a great way to add more content to the empty space below. 

I added a line at the bottom that further uses up the empty space so that the contents page looks less empty 

This is my final content page result: 

Reflection

Overall I think I made my content page minimalist but still followed the conventions of travel magazines. I really liked my final outcome for the contents page, as it does not follow the usual square pictures. The hardest part of designing the contents page was to think of ways to put multiple images without making the layout boring.