Experimentation of Coverline

This was my initial design for the coverline of this magazine. I played around with embossing, drop shadows and colours on CS4 Photoshop.

At first I liked it as I thought it looked bold and heavy but after pending my opinions on it I realised that it is a little too dark and heavy. I feel it may detract the reader's attention from the front cover photo and instead divert their attention to the coverline.

I began again with just the font and ended up with this. I much prefer this design as I feel it will accompany a wider range of front covers with its subtle colour scheme and light drop shadow. To do this I edited the 'noise' of the font, this created the grainy glittery effect that the font now possesses. The audacity of the noise depended on how prominent I wanted the coverline to be, so I settled for a reasonably high ratio of noise causing small groups of coloured and white pixels to form. The effect 'noise' refers to the television as when there is a lack of signal, monochrome lines and squiggles appear. I feel this is quite relevant to the media industry and therefore would be a wise choice to use this as my coverline.