For my New Visual Language project I am designing a magazine, and so to help with the layout process I started off sketching on paper. I learnt from my Physical Studio tasks how to effectively sketch thumbnails for magazine spreads and how helpful it is to quickly get my ideas onto paper so I can quickly compare ideas and decide on which is the best without wasting time on the computer. Also the small format is less daunting to work with so it is much easier to come up with countless variations. Once I had my rough sketches and thumbnails I moved on to creating detailed layout variations. The aim of these layouts is to provide a template for me to build my magazine on, this keeps the layouts consistent but also allows for flexible variations. I created a different sketch for each layout scenario such as 3/4 text pages and whole image pages, as magazines do not just have one continuous layout.
