Pick Me Up Content

I have decided that for my magazine redesign, I just want to feature articles from various trashy magazines rather than redoing one issue of Pick Me Up. This will enable me to focus on my editorial skills working with large sections of body copy. I don't want to feature things like DVD reviews and television listings as these will age quickly, the true life stories are the real content of these magazines anyway. I have scanned a few pages into my design context blog here. I think a good number of stories to aim for would be about 20. If each story takes the form of a dps then thats 40 pages of content to design, plus an intro/contents page and back and front covers.

Brief 4: Pick Me Up

Brief:
What are badly designed publications? When asked this question I immediately thought of trashy magazines with stories such as ‘A stripper delivered my baby’. What would happen if the content of the publication was the same but it was designed in a way that is clear to read, with a strong, consistent aesthetic and good typography? I intend to redesign an issue of a trashy magazine such as Pick Me Up into something that is well designed and generally more glamourous as a way of subverting this genre of magazine.

Target Audience:
The magazine will appeal to a range of people. Trashy magazine readers will be enticed by the content and cultural magazine readers will be enticed by the aesthetic of the publication.

Requirements:
- The publication must include the content of the original magazine.
- Magazine spreads
- Mock up of publication