Zone Magazine
Zone Magazine
Zone magazine is a publication ran yearly by The University of West Alabama. There is a class dedicated solely to the task of creating this publication in order to publish it for distribution at the homecoming football game. This publication is a sports magazine with a focus on the athletes on UWA’s campus. This year I was in charge of the layout along with my partners Katie Burrall and Ellie McKenzie (click their names to visit their online portfolios). We wanted to create a layout that was different from past issues while still maintaining the UWA brand.
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Avenir Black and Book were chosen as body and subheading fonts because of the modern feel and the readability of the text.
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Pervitina Dex is the font that is used within the Zone logo and also maintains a futuristic feel. We decided to keep this font to keep a consistency across the publication.
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This is Zone magazine red and has been used in the past. It also happens to be the red that is used throughout UWA’s branding.
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Black and white are staple colors in printing and are also part of the UWA brand. We needed to stay on brand while bringing a new feel with the layout and design.
Page Layout
I was tasked with creating the layout alongside Katie Burrall. We wanted to modernize this issue and create an overarching theme. We decided on a digital, futuristic feel and wanted this to be present across all pages in the magazine. Here are some examples of the layout.
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