Deconstructing BOUND
Written by Amy on Tuesday, October 6th, 2009 ( 8 responses ) | 
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BOUND is…
… lifestyle monthly with content drawn from around the globe. With the tag line “Different culture, same lifestyle”, BOUND will target female readers with in-depth features, celebrity interviews, travel editorial, fashion and lifestyle news.
or… a Lesbian magazine targeted for everyone. Or that’s what I understood from the Examiner.com ~
Or… really, another glossy.
Hot pink bubble, mine. LOL
Well, typography treatment is not exactly the same, eh?
Ugly green, mine. LOL
First, (1) The include message has different typography than the rest of the cover. Like, slap it on a la last minute because we want to give away this other copy of such magazine. (2) That chunk of text is TWO headlines. – 1. Lesbian Tango in Buenos Aires, 2. Porn Star Nina Hartley Bares All. Yet, it looks like #1 is the subtitle for PLUS, and #2 looks like it could be TWO headlines on their own.
(3) Look at all the fonts! And all that floating around content with no defined hierarchy. And the line-spacing… Can there be any more line-space between FRESH………… FACES……… OF COMEDY?
And this is too tiny to have an opinion about,
but… that “T” seems a bit clustered, right? And that line below it, I don’t think it should be there. It should be a longer line, or not be there at all. Same thing with those many ONE-word lines.
Filed under: English, Jobs, Rants, Reading, Screencaps
Tags: design, magazine, print, typography
Comments:
on Tuesday, October 6th, 2009
is this a real mag?
on Tuesday, October 6th, 2009
not kidding you. it’s real.
comes out on December. Supposedly.
on Wednesday, October 7th, 2009
ewwww
In that case I would prefer that YAM came out as a real mag…
on Wednesday, October 7th, 2009
imo, printing magazine are over unless they are graphical magazines. Photography, illustration and the such…
on Wednesday, October 7th, 2009
by the way, I thought I should mention YAM is building up good for this issue. xD I think it’s a very good issue, though I’d wish more people would have contributed this time.
on Monday, October 12th, 2009
OMG Amy…
my eyes are hurting !
wth.. that layout is done in Word within 2 mins.
on Monday, October 12th, 2009
[...] I liked working on the BOUND magazine post, I decided to do one on the Revista Integracion issue, which I saw this past weekend. [...]
on Monday, October 12th, 2009
I know you love it, Maca. Don’t lie.
What is your opinion?