Creating the magazine on InDesign

Creating The Regional Magazine

To create the regional magazine itself, I designed it on InDesign.

Open a new page, and sort out the spacing that will be needed for the front cover of the magazine. I decided to keep a white border as it mimics the well-known style of ‘Wavelength’ a surf magazine that usually has a white border to its front cover, which gives it a stand out identity as it is not a common style used in magazines.

As shown here in my draft of the front cover, the white border is present. Within the border I also placed a barcode which fits in well and does not overlap any text or image on the cover.

Also included is the brand identity of the logo, this is carried onto our other magazine. This is important to create identity and stand out to the audience. The text around it is an easy way of explaining it is a regional magazine with the Proper nouns of local towns in the area.


I added pages to create a double page spread for the magazine. The use of double page spreads allows an enlarged image to cross the page in full detail and have room to fit in text and articles. I used this for both contents page and double spread to get the full effect of an image. This has been done in most magazines and double page images are commonly featured in sport magazines to take out and place on walls for slightly younger audiences.

Adding articles to double page spread to keep the articles neat and in order, making it easier for the audience to read and direct themselves around the page.

I chose to set it out with 3 columns for the double page spread on one side, and leave 1 column on the other to spread the text, yet leave space for the images.


[Grab your reader’s attention with a great quote from the document or use this space to emphasize a key point. To place this text box anywhere on the page, just drag it.]

This is the article seen on the double page spread, it was created using column but remained slightly confusing and out of alignment so I improved this after my draft magazine.

This is the double page spread after I had moved around images and replaced some to stand out slightly more to appeal to the audience.

I unhyphenated the text in the article and made sure the columns were equally spread apart in the double page spread. I also used a pull quote in the middle of the article to create a more eye catching layout.


When the images were imported the quality was not to the needed standard so it was necessary to turn the image quality to the highest possible resolution to get an idea on if the image will fit the page.

The outcome of the image helps determine whether or not the image fits in and looks correct in the chosen page of the magazine.

This can depend on many things such as theme, colour scheme and lighting of the image. Due to this issue of the magazine revolving around summer, a lighter image with a warmer glow fits the theme better, where as a winter issue would suit a darker, cooler looking image.

A high quality display is selected to improve the quality of the image.


On the contents page I gave more character to the text by putting the contents of the magazine and information from left to right. I also moved the sizes of the text boxes as the text went further down to shape around the image.

The text goes around the main part of the image and keep sit visible. This keeps a cleaner look to the magazine and prevents overlapping, making it more appealing and easier to read.

The fonts used in the magazine remain the same across both issues. We kept a brand identity to give character and recognition to the magazine. This helps it stand out from other magazines and can fit to the genre of magazine we are creating.

For the article and smaller text the font ‘Verdana’ is used and varies between bold or regular depending on if the text is a subheading/important piece of text or whether it is just a regular informative piece of text.

For the main headers and logo the font ‘Impact’ has been used because it has a bold style to it and is basic. The fact the text is basic keeps the magazine looking basic which is intended for our style of magazine. The genre behind it being surfing and skateboarding usually trends a more bold and basic look, not a ‘fancier’ type look. The audience for skateboarding and surfing magazines are generally more intended to show off images rather than text, therefore more focus is placed on

I edited the size of different parts of text by changing the spacing between letters. This worked well for parts such as the title that featured a more

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Creating the magazine on InDesign