Website - I didn't base my website off of another website I had seen, as I couldn't find any other fashion magazines with the same take as what I wanted to do. I knew that I wanted to do something colorful and with minimal text, which goes against the traditional style of most fashion magazine sites. My final product goes against typical conventions as it isn't as heavily focused on the articles in the magazine but more about the photographs used, I decided to do this because as a new magazine I felt photographs would be more likely to draw in readers than a website with lots of different text-heavy articles drawing the eye to nowhere in particular.
Magazine -
I was influenced by the first image as an idea for my cover, I liked that the shoot was done outside with a background that didn't take too much away from the model whilst still be a nice detail in creating the outdoorsy, hippie look I was trying to create. I also took ideas from what the model was wearing in this image, I noticed that a lot of the effort was in the details, in the various pieces of jewelry, I made sure that this also came through in my images. For the contents page I used the second image as inspiration, I liked the ideas of using columns so that the text didn't look too bulky on the page and fit in a more newspaper style, giving what I thought was a more professional look. I also learnt from looking at other contents pages that I didn't want the focus to be on the page number which a lot of contents pages did, I decided to do this because I didn't want it to draw any attention away from my image or the other article titles.
