I created this graphic design to represent the importance of my health and fitness journey and a magazine is a good portrayal of this type of lifestyle. For me, all of the factors during this journey were crucial to my success in up keeping my lifestyle which is why I chose these 3 pictures to represent my topic of going vegan and creating the start of my fitness journey. Three main factors in this were the meals I created, the upkeep of going to the gym and keeping myself busy, and the motivation I gave myself to keep going since this process is not a short one. I chose to make it a magazine because this is the most common form of inspiration, in my opinion, for journeys and food recipes. To create this Magazine draft, I used a mesh background from a site (link below) and then embedded my 3 photographs with a red background to contrast them from the background to give it the look of a magazine. This style of draft inspired me because when I was first starting my vegan journey and going to the gym, I looked mainly for inspiration and magazines or blogs that caught my eye from people who had previously done the same thing to get myself on the right track. Since the three elements in my topic are related but not very similar, it seemed best to create three various sections on the post to clarify what they are and why they are important. The only challenge I had while creating this in the software, was that I was having a difficult time finding a way to make the borders of these photos project from the background more and make them look like they are a part of the page, my plan to fix this is to blend it in to the first layer and then use the grunge texture to give it the paper look.
Isabelle Armstrong 