SPEAKING FROM EXPERIENCE// Publication Progress 4

 This section details the development of the front cover to this publication.

 I wanted to create something that was based on my sketches earlier, with the open laptop and screen reading best friend, worst enemy. I sketched out this image with the pen tool.

 Here it is with the line point increased.

 With this image I created this crazy shape. Its based on how computers used to crash when they ran out of memory and caused windows to duplicate if you tried to move them about the screen. I changed the colour of this work to cyan so that black text can be visible on top.

 Here I have added the text I originally planned to have appear on the screen. Because of the size of the laptop screen and its relationship with the width of the a4 page I thought it would be better to place this above, in a much larger space.

 The way that Didot interacts with the thin lines of the image is not good here, the thin parts of the text are blotted out. The text will have to be updated to one which is bolder.

 I experimented with this bold Helvetica inspired font called airbus but it sits too heavy.

 In the end I settled for Bebas and Rockwell, two fonts that work nicely here. Also they are the typefaces that are used on the inside of the publication, they should have been my first choice. I also added this overlay, with exclusion effect applied. This means that the text stands out very vividly, unfortunately at the expense of the image.

 To counter this effect I made the final laptop in the sequence more noticeable by changing the stroke to 3p and filling it in white.

 I just tested some other colours to see if they would be suitable.

 Finally I settled on this black outlines image and included a blue background to reduce the contrast with the old white background and the image. I also had to format the design to A4 size because for some reason I was working in a tabloid size before.