Magazine Cover Design

Magazine Cover Design with Clipping Masks

Design the front cover of a magazine using the creative tools in Adobe Illustrator or Photoshop.

📏 Specifications:

  • Format: 26.9 cm x 21.3 cm, portrait orientation

✏️ Your magazine cover must include:

  • The name of the magazine
  • Three headlines – one of them significantly larger and more eye-catching than the others
  • At least two photos, which will be used with clipping masks
  • At least one simple graphic made from vector paths (e.g., an icon or shape)
  • The issue month and year (e.g. March 2024)
  • A barcode

✂️ Use at least three different types of clipping masks:

  1. A vector object (e.g. a circle or rectangle) clipping another vector graphic
  2. A vector shape clipping a photo
  3. Text used as a clipping mask for a photo

🎯 Before you begin:

  • Choose a genre for your magazine (e.g., Football, Tennis, Sailing, Fashion, Winemaking, Pop Music…)
  • Define your target audience (e.g., children, teens, adults)
  • Design your cover in a way that will appeal to your audience, using suitable:
    • Fonts
    • Colors
    • Shapes
    • Image choices
    • Overall layout

Here is my result:

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