Oleada Magazine

This is simply a showcase put on paper - an exhibit that promotes the hard work of the many different artists I tend to follow on my social media platforms. This magazine touches upon the way each began their careers and how they manage to deal with the overwhelming factors that arise with it. This magazine tries to focus itself on reflection and the feeling of being overwhelmed. Oleada, a spanish word that translates into "wave" in english, evokes these experiences, feelings, and thoughts.

Sketches

I wanted the cover to represent the title of the magazine. I wanted to visually show a sense of depth and overwhelmingness through the idea of water. My magazine focuses itself on these individual's life changes and how it has affected them since then; because of this, I needed the cover to emphasize that feeling of thought through the color blue as well.

Within my sketches it can be seen that I had an idea to make my text or the barcode look as if the ink has run. This would give it that sense of it being underwater.

Cover Iterations

Cover Page Progress Work

I would set up my type and images in photoshop, printed them out, and scanned different versions to try to get the reflective-water effect for my designs. After this, I used Photoshop to play with the texture of the paper and changed its hues to blue.

Final Cover Design

Ross Harris Feature

Although Harris has been many things, I really wanted to emphasize his photography career since it is what he is still currently doing today. I wanted to use polaroids that seemed to be thrown onto the page to emphasize the many different projects he has worked on.

KWE$T Feature

KWE$T tends to be associated with a psychedelic-like visual, so I decided to really play with the drastic scans and glitched background. I wanted that to live on the page because it is also how I interpret his music.