I don't mean to toot my own horn, but I'm really pleased and amazed with our final magazine for our PUBLISH class turned out! For something that was crammed in the span of 2 weeks, I think our team did a pretty good job putting together this thing of beauty.
Janine's layout is really what brought everything together and despite the minimalistic approach to the design, I think this is where the whole "less is more" thing really applies.
Dante is an art magazine and we intended it to be a creative outlet for the youth. It focuses on aesthetic and writing, which I really love. And for our first issue, we decided for it to revolve around the theme: The 7 Deadly Sins which inspired the name of the magazine -- Dante -- meaning Dante Alighieri, the author of Inferno.
Initially, we thought it seemed like such a heavy theme for a magazine. When you think of magazines, the first thing that comes to mind is either pop culture, high fashion, and the like, but we thought deviating from cookie-cutter ideas would be quite refreshing.
These are some of my favorite parts!
Initially, we thought it seemed like such a heavy theme for a magazine. When you think of magazines, the first thing that comes to mind is either pop culture, high fashion, and the like, but we thought deviating from cookie-cutter ideas would be quite refreshing.
These are some of my favorite parts!
Flipping open the magazine and seeing an all-black spread sets the mood immediately. I was flipping out over how nice this will look if it were actually printed on glossies. So freakin' cool.
The contents of the magazine are basically short stories, proses, poems, photography, and art. Most of them we wrote ourselves, but we had to get contributors who could bring the magazine to life and provide us with good art.
This was a poem I wrote a year ago. I first wanted it to be published anonymously, but hey, if we're talking about expression and creative outlets, I might as well go for it, right?
One of my good friends, Adriel Tangoan, took this lovely image. I had to creep around his Tumblr account where he used to post most of his photography and I found this gem from a year ago!
The most interesting part of it was writing fictional short stories for the seven deadly sins. The theme was kinda tricky and the challenge was articulating emotions in a subtle way and let the story creep up on the reader. It was a lot of fun! Writing for envy and pride (admittedly two of the sins I'm most guilty of) made me cringe BADLY. I had to transform my "zone" into something dark and toxic. I hope that it worked? Haha!
I thoroughly enjoyed writing Walls. Guess I just have a knack for sad shit.
It is accompanied by a website and I am incredibly proud to say that we own the domain! Weehoo! You can also check out the website here. It would be real lovely if you did!
