Creativity can be chaotic

So I wanna show you guys what I have in mind right now... some things have changed, some haven't, but I just want to update the "vision" that I have for my magazine.

For cover...

So when I started this I looked a lot at Billboard and at Rolling Stones but scratch that... now I'm finding inspiration in Complex.

Let's compare...

   
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No disrespect to Queen B, but no. Her beauty should never be disrespected by cover lines. Seriously though, I do not want my magazine to have cover lines. As I have established that my target audience will be millennials, I have to go towards the more artistic route. Less is more, a picture speaks a thousand words, etc. Millennials are innovative, different -and let's be honest- we read less! I mean Twitter is restricted to 140 characters, and between Instagram, Pinterest, and Youtube there is just a lot more visual than textual...

This Complex cover is just more appealing, more aesthetically pleasing (not just because of Zayn). It is more simplistic and minimalistic. So, it's decided, I am definitely hopping onto the no cover lines wagon.

For Double-Page Spread...


Three words... interactivity meets quirky.

Vogue 73 Questions

Migos over/under for Pitchfork

It's simple. We all now that with the booming entertainment levels available everywhere and anywhere right now our attention spans have decreased. According to a USA Today article by AJ Neuharth-Keusch, 

"A 2015 study by Microsoft revealed that the average person's attention span in this wild world of technology and social media is down to eight seconds — which is less than that of a goldfish." 

Sad I know, but true! With Vogue's 73 questions we get the randomness and with Pitchfork's over/under we get the funny. I love these interviews, they are quick, entertaining, and they aren't hard to follow or tedious to watch. 

Now, with the interactive aspect of my magazine I don't know how I am going to set up the two page spread. If I do a regular two page spread and then an interactive aspect then it will definitely be a quirky and fast interview like Vogue's 73 questions with the pre-established set up found in Rolling Stones...

                      

I still think this is the best route for be because of once again, the artist and visual aspect of it.

So yeah! There it is... a little snippet of what i have in mind right now. 

Sports, AJ Neuharth-Keusch. "NBA Will Consider Shortening Games Due to Millennial Attention Spans." USA Today. Gannett Satellite Information Network, 15 Jan. 2017. Web. 26 Mar. 2017.