12A Camie Kandi: Foundation Portfolio: Designing the title block

To start my music magazine off, I have to first think of the masthead as it is the first thing that catches the eye or that the audience looks out for. I wanted the title to fit the genre and style of the magazine that it is. After this I came up with the name ‘RAW’, I chose this because I thought it was best suited to the genre I was going for this magazine. To me Raw connotes in with the hip hop society how it’s more powerfully impressive and also show hip hop is not dead that music now 0 raw. Then I had to find which font best illustrates the magazine and the title. Out of all of the fonts I tried I went with the font American Captain, I’m going to have it coloured in white on a red background linking to colour scheme that I find out on my questionnaire results. As you can see red , is a prominent colour in these magazines as it catches your eye. I think using red in my magazine will draw people to certain parts of my magazine. The Black and White will be the base colours, like for coverlines to emphasises different points . and the red will act as the colour to draw attention.

However the other fonts such as Font 2 was more for headlines/subtitles, although font 3 captures the genre of the magazine I felt that it was to unconventional for the magazine and font 4 made it a bit of rock genre magazine so wouldn't be appealing to the reader.

The font is smooth and fun however the thick bold letters convey masculinity and will fit perfectly with the Hip-hop theme. The font also suggests a youthful audience.I am happy with the colours as I think they will work well together and help me create a successful R&B and Hip- Hop magazine.