Redesign of a
Magazine Article

This design was an assignment in the course Graphic Design and Technique during my education Graphic Design and Web Development. The task was to find an article and make a new design for it. It could reuse parts of the original design, but some things had to be different.

Since I like web development I chose Practical Web Design (or .net as it’s also called) issue 195, with an article about the production of Yahoo’s new homepage. The original spread was very white and didn’t really catch my eye on anything. So I made my header in dark gray and also moved the timeline from the bottom to the top as a good contrast to the rest of the article. The original spread was mixed with both interview and showcase of the site. I wanted a more structured approach, so I put the showcasing on the right page and the interview on the left. Instead of using a light gray background for the questions in the article, I used the green accent color as text color to both make it look a bit better and make it easier to read.