This week, while still following the creation of my magazine style guide, I focused on planning the structure and actual content of my original mindfulness magazine portfolio. Thought I have not yet taken to design full page layouts yet, I mapped out what my magazine will be including and how each component will be required to be organized.
I also planned a count of three core sections for my magazine: the front cover, table of contents spread, and double-page feature article. These sections that I separated will help me have a better idea and structure to my magazine. I also outlined the type of content that will appear throughout the magazine, specifically these sections, and how it will be reflecting mindfulness and meditation conventions.
Examples of double page feature articles in other Mindfulness magazines-
Examples of my planning to structure the magazine
Page 1: Cover – title, image, tagline
Page 2: Table of contents
Page 3–5: Main article/ Articles
Page 6: Quotes + photography
Personal Layout notes-
As part of this planning process, I also reviewed examples from the Mindful Magazine, Kinfolk, and Tricycle: The Buddhist Review to understand how professional mindfulness magazine's structure and control their content within pages
Planning the structure of my magazine helped me see how the style guide I have already created can be applied with consistency across all of my sections. For example, my decision I have already made in my style guide to use minimalist layouts and neutral colors directly influences how my cover and table of contents will be designed.
Through my recent research, I noticed that mindfulness magazines often prioritize quality over quantity tying back into the use of negative space I have already observed in mindfulness magazines, when it comes to content. Rather than including many short articles, mindfulness magazines focus on fewer, more reflective and in-depth pieces. This influenced my decision to create one strong feature article that aligns with the meditation sub-genre and takes up more than one page instead of multiple shorter feature articles that would crowd my designed layouts.
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