Editorial Design

Supersonic Music Magazine

UC Berkeley Graphic Design Program - Student Project

Design Problem:

The design task was to create a fictitious magazine for music fans that featured the latest news and updates including the latest tech trends to appeal to a young, discerning, urban audience.

Design Process:

The magazine design needed to have a uniform look for all the pages. Starting with creating grids, headers and footers for master pages, it established a definitive look for a stylish, contemporary music magazine. The magazine masthead needed a strong, striking typeface. The ad for the back cover came from one of the other design projects. The table of content pages employed paragraph styles, character styles for an orderly list. The images and text of the inner spreads was taken from popular magazines, featuring Billie Eilish, winner of multiple Grammys in 2020. Using Adobe InDesign’s powerful formatting features, the inner spreads showcase pull quotes, paragraph styles, character styles, master page formats.

Software: Adobe InDesign.