I’m again pleased to announce the completion of a project, this time the redesign of the Impact Magazine website. Although I’m currently doing an industrial placement year, I’m the magazine’s Web Editor and so I’ve taken the chance to redesign the site from scratch.
I’ve just spent the last week in Nottingham designing the first issue of Impact Magazine and I thought I’d share a few of the pages that I’ve designed:
As you may know, I work at the University of Nottingham Students’ Union magazine, Impact. We produce seven issues per academic year, which works out to about one a month. All of our files are stored on our main Mac Pro computer, which until recently was not backed up at.
This left us very vulnerable, so I ordered Leopard (the newest version of the Mac OS) and an external hard drive. They arrived last week and I installed both on Saturday, just as we were coming to the end of the latest issue’s production. I set up Time Machine just like I do at home and left it to do its business.
So I walk in on Monday to work on the magazine and turn on the Mac Pro. It went to the white screen with the large Apple logo, but stayed there… and stayed there. After 20 minutes, I was getting anxious, but then I remembered that I had just installed Leopard and Time Machine. So I reformatted the hard drive, restored the entire machine from the backup and little over an hour later we were back up and running as if nothing had happened.
This little incident points out a few things. Firstly, Macs are not infallible. Secondly, when they do let you down, it’s extremely easy to recover and get on with what you’re doing. Time Machine is an absolute godsend. Most importantly though, it’s absolutely imperative that you backup your data. Be paranoid about it. We could have lost a month’s worth of work and a year’s worth of archives. We dodged a bullet though and I dread to think about what could have happened if we weren’t prepared.
Another batch of pages that I’ve designed, this time for Impact issue 189.
Editorial
News
Travel
Style
Famous Last Words
The new issue of Impact has just gone to the printers, so I thought I’d share the page designs that I worked on. Click on the thumbnails for a larger view.
Features
Style
Nice
As before, click on the images for larger versions.
Contents
Editorial
News
Sport
Features
Grapevine
Travel
Nice
Famous Last Words
After so many redesigned sections in the previous issue, Impact issue 186 featured a few tweaks, especially the Travel section, which was totally reworked. Click on any images for larger versions.
Contents and Editorial
News and Sport
Features
Grapevine (events)
Travel
Spare Parts
Nice
Gratis (competitions, credits, etc.)
To continue from my previous post, here are some page designs from issue 185 of Impact Magazine. This was the first issue of the new academic year and one that the design editor and I had a chance to really influence in terms of layout. Click on the thumbnails for larger versions.
News
Features
(not my illustration)
Travel
Style
Nice (Arts, Films, Music, Science, Nights)
I co-design the University of Nottingham Students’ Union magazine, Impact. It’s a 56 page full colour A4 glossy publication with a monthly print run of 4,000. I’ve worked on few issues and I’ll be posting all of my designs for you to take a look at. First up with issue 183, which was published last year. Click on any of the images to get a larger version.
Features
Check out the pun ;)
