OUGD601 - Practical Work - About Honey #2 Front Covers

A new cover design was also created to represent the new commercial magazine. The first experiment produced a cover with a full colour image overlaid with solid type, as a homage to the commercial queer magazine Girls Like Us. In a critique group this design received negative reactions as many felt that if anything the design was too commercial, and the cover did not accurately represent the concept of About Honey as a project and would not match the content inside.

It was suggested that the original cover be reworked, and commercial elements added in, such as a stricter grid system, and pricing and barcode details. There was a strong preference for cover 1 as from a graphic design perspective it was felt that this design was the most original. However, it was also agreed that cover 2 actually felt the most commercial because of the stacked logo, and was more accurate to the designs that people would most likely see in a shop.

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After feedback from this critique a back cover was also created. Unlike the original cover the back of the publication would not be a continuation of the front image, instead a full bleed erotic image would be used to replicate the full page advertisement that usually adorns the back of most commercial magazine. The image is also complete with it's own censorship of the female body as in a real commercial setting this kind of content would probably not be published unless it had been censored before sale.