For the past semester, I have been compiling and creating a magazine entirely made by myself. It has been stressful yet very fun and exciting. I have learned so much from it and am glad that this was the basis for most of our classes. Learning and doing assinments is one thing but making a magazine with that skill is on a whole new level. Having to design something similar yet different in a way to make the magazine flow correctly and be visually interesting was a challenge. But overall that challenge though and showed me so much that different individual assignments couldn’t do.
First of all, we had to decide on a magazine name. Surprisingly this was very hard to come up with. Finding something that was original and wasn’t taken by another classmate or an actual magazine already. Also, the fact that it had to relate to what was also going to be in the magazine as well. You didn’t want a title that sounded like it would be a sports magazine title, you wanted something related to design or something along the lines of that.
So that is why I came up with the title Immersion. This title is based on the word immerse which means to “be involved” deeply in a certain activity or interest. Immersion is an act of immersing or the state of being immersed. I chose this title because I hope people who read my magazine will be immersed in it and want to read it cover to cover. From there I was able to come up with the colors I wanted to use and be able to stick with a certain theme throughout the pages of my magazine. I worked very hard on it and hope that all that hard work pays off in the long run.
Creating a magazine was so much fun, even though it’s not my strongest point I still had fun. Being able to create and make things gives me a sense of satisfaction. I hope that this satisfaction can carry on into the job that I get. This is just the start of my learning to create the magazine and there will be a couple of blogs for the other parts talking about this magazine assignment. I hope that you can read along and learn from them all and learn from this experience I had.