Finalising my Idea

For my interactive book on the 1960's, I'm making a book about The Supremes, their story, their music and their influence on that era. It will be full of information and facts, but also help for people to remember or be inspired by the girl group.

For this, I wanted to look at layouts of magazines and pages of that era, as I'll be designing it as if it was made in the 60's. I found a couple of creative pages that I liked, so I drew this up in my sketchbook.

I liked having a creative way to show or tell something to the audience, so I will continue to find retro but creative ways to present my book. Another thing is, in the 60's, most magazines had not a lot of order about them, so things seem a little messier (compared to how neat things can be these days). I want to replicate this.

I did a small practice run in Indesign on laying out text, and using paragraph styles. You can see this really simple layout I was playing with.

I want to do more of a complicated design next time in Indesign, and make it colourful and arty.