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Well, this is a 10-page (5 spreads) magazine article I did for school this past semester. The article is about Non-Places where I live. Essentially, buildings that don't have an identity. Such as abandoned buildings and buildings stuck under motorways. The article is about the problems that cause non-places, such as excess, excessive time, space & consumption. So I targeted a building in my area, next to a downtown school and stated that it would be best converted into a natural garden with little human intervention, not a realistic goal, but it would be neat to see a garden in the middle of downtown. An example of a non-place being converted into a place would be Burnside skatepark, it was built under a motorway and added a lot of value to the community. I chose a garden over a skatepark or other options, because a garden is the opposite of a lot of the causes of Non-Places.Related content
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On this one you have the clean and simple down but a little too down...I'd suggest reexploring the type. You could totally have some great visual impact with the type and layout to match the cool building shots like the fourth one. You could have laid in some blue prints or sketchy type lines to elude to renovation but spicing up the type could really improve this piece.
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I appreciate your feedback, and you have very valid points. When I had the sub-headers as a rougher font I felt it destroyed the unity of the text, perhaps I should've looked for other options. One reason the whole project was not taken further was its importance that it retain its readability and contrast while printed in black & white, as most of the copies were printed.
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When I said rougher I was referring more to gritty of fonts like those made by misprintedtype. That was what I thought you were referring to before. I think you'r right. When I started putting this layout together I compared fonts and had 5 different versions of the same text with different fonts (we started this by cutting out text blocks and gluing them to gridded spreads) 3 of the 5 had sans serif fonts as the body text. I guess I picked the wrong one. If you don't mind me asking, what is it about the layout that makes you feel like having a serif font doesn't mesh?
As for the examples you provided, and your comment on stacking texts, varying weights so forth to make the subheaders more interesting. I definately agree, after looking at those examples especially, I do really think it could've been made stronger in that way.
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When you say rougher what do you mean? When I was talking about changing up the type I was thinking a nice sans serif font for the body copy and maybe the same one for the subheads (this actually would fix the look right off serif font just doesn't look right in this layout) but you could stack, vary weight, point sizes for the subhead. you could do some call outs or something make it more editorial without making it hard to read. Here's some examples that play with the type but are still legible...
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I'm not saying those are the best examples or that's what you should do but those are ideas of what you can do with type to have visual impact and still maintain legiblity.
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