Intial rough design ideas

Before I actually started designing and making my magazine I first came up with three different paper drawn ideas. Each one was slightly different from the other and gave me a range to choose from. I first went through and out of the three for each page I chose my favourite design. I then asked 4 of my colleagues to look at each one and out of all of them choose which ones were there favourite. I also noted what parts in each design they liked and didn't like. By the end of the initial rough design process I ended up choosing the best from all three designs for each page and combined them into my final rough designs


Having done the rough designs gave me a rough template (that I had tested for readers reactions) to work with. Natural throughout the design process I changed and moved things around based on my thoughts and ideas as I went along, and by the end of the design process my final design could just about be comparable to my rough designs. But having those rough designs gave me something to work towards and be set in the right direction.