Designing & Inspiration

In order to get a true visual understanding of the design, I delved straight into creating my content pages. Knowing that I work best through experimentation, I am taking the time to play around on inDesign, altering layouts and exploring various fonts to get an understanding for what combinations work best together. Having not come from a magazine or design background, I feel this process will be a case of trial and error. 

 Since writing up my FMP proposal, a significant inspiration of mine has been The Edit, Net-A-Porter's online magazine. The Edit sets the bar for high end features. It's layouts are so simple yet they look so interesting. I like the landscape format and the click through element, quite like a slideshow. I have not come across anything quite like The Edit online, I believe it is a really tasteful way to present high-end magazine content, online. I envision my magazine to be a budget version of The Edit.

It is helpful to have these layouts as inspiration to begin designing my own pages. I am trying to visually create a similar layout before adapting them to my liking.   

https://www.net-a-porter.com/magazine/349/contents