PLEASE LOITER — 2024
Context: Originally a college project that was reworked by myself 5 years later using the same prompt and text. The goal of the project was to create a fictional magazine and design 4 editorial spreads with compelling imagery and text to pull the reader in and reflect what your publication was about. My original writing was a publication for loiterers and all the best places to loiter in Portland Maine.
Process: The process started five years ago when I wrote the copy and took the photographs that reviewed three different parking garages in Portland, Maine. My original work was my first time working with large body copy and while I learned a lot back in Junior year of my college through the project, I’ve grown a lot as a designer and wanted to take the project further. I took out my sketchbook and while referencing my original design and sketched out ways to improve the original design. I used a similar grid and played with the strong angels of the architecture and used extending lines as a consistent visual language throughout the design. I spend time after designing the titles and photos to correct and enhance the typography of the body copy for best legibility.
Solution: While my first design focused heavily on industrial shapes and text, the design was static, but by taking the same inspirations of strong industrial shapes, I used those shapes to create a composition that would pull you through it with more visual interests.
