Foam Symmetry magazine response

 My response to Foam Symmetry magazine-

The starting points of this project was to look at multiple magazines and create responses to them adapting to each Individual style. For this section I decided to look at Foam Symmetry Magazine based in Newquay is a magazine I have always got copies of and love reading because of their minimalistic style which really inspires me. After looking closely into what makes their style so unique I took a few of there pages I felt most inspired by and created this response.   A main style that reoccurs in foam symmetry is layering- of images and text. This is something I wanted to explore in my own work so I created layout that incorporated this. From this experiment I learned that pairing contrasting images works really well to create a layout. For the first page I layered a colourful, less defined image (due to speed blur) with black and white high quality landscape photo- although these images are opposites they contrast really nicely together. I am very pleased with the outcome of this page however I think it need something else like text to add a little more detail to it.  For the second page I decided to use a full page spread of a Cornwall landscape, I found the colours in this photo really effective and worked well with the white text. This is because the white of the writing matches the highlights in the image and the soft bright tones. I found it quite tricky to think of ideas that work in foam symmetry mag style as I felt my images didn't work as well as they added more lifestyle images which I haven't shot so that would be an improvement I could do to add more of a variety to my images. The successful techniques have been using laying to create more interesting layouts and using adobe indesign has been really successful and easy to learn. The unsuccessful areas are not having enough images to use that colour schemes work together. So to impose I would conduct some more shoots before creating more pages. Overall I am very pleased with the outcome of these pages and I am going to incorporate them into the final mix of the pages I have created.