Starting the creative process

   Monday marked the first official day that my partner, Hannah, and I started brainstorming ideas for our DIY magazine. Now in the beginning it was a bit nerve wrecking because it seemed like an overwhelming amount of stuff needed to be done, but as we started to schedule out out the process, my anxiety decreased.
   We began by focusing on the cover page of the magazine. We both agreed that the title of the magazine should be front and center on the top of the magazine. We also decided that we want the font of the title to have rounded edges and a bubble look rather than straight ,geometrical lines. Now this was just a simple brainstorm of the font but we will be going into greater depth on that this week. One thing that I believe to be fundamental when creating this magazine is choosing a distinct color scheme. Since our target audience is women from the ages of 18-35, we decided to uses colors such as white, pink, and a marble print. This gives the magazine a pop of color but it also makes it slick with the white finishes. The main image will be a set that we arrange to make it look like a bedroom and we will include the DIY projects that we create.  On the cover lines, we intend to use a lot of numbers and lists because that is what draws people in.
   The table of contents was and still is my main worry. We wanted to create a very abstract table of contents with DIY instruments in the background like scissors, tape, paintbrushes, etc. The table of contents will follow the same color scheme as the cover page. We decided that we want to make the table of contents two pages because there are so many things that can be included in a DIY magazine that one page just isn't enough! 
   The two page layout is what I am most excited about. We wanted to do one page where we describe and lay out the steps for a DIY project and we want to display the picture on the top half of the page. We have not decided what this specific art project is going to be but I have been getting a lot of amazing DIY ideas from this YouTube channel called Mr. Kate. She is an interior designer and she focuses a lot on DIY projects on every room she does. For the second page, we want to do a list. Now this list might have include top DIY projects for the summer or fun things like that. We have not set that in stone.
   Here are some extremely really rough drafts that we created in class:

  Now everything discussed on this blog post are my hopes and dreams for our magazine and if we are ably to depict what I vision in my mind that that would make me exceptionally happy.