Field Notes – Color: bon appétit
Since I wasn’t able to find an official color guide for bon appétit, I decided to look at three issues to try to figure out how they approached color and why. What I found is that for the most part,… Continue Reading
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Field Notes – Images: bon appétit
As a magazine that prides itself on educating its audience on new restaurants, up-and-coming chefs, recipes, trends and other foodie related things, bon appétit does a good job with the visuals that are paired with the articles. Image use will… Continue Reading
Field Notes – bon appétit: Furniture
Bon appétit designers seem to enjoy using furniture in various ways to highlight areas for decoration and function on their pages.These would include the usual folio, credit and bylines, section heads/flags, teasers and promos, display headlines and subheads. Here are… Continue Reading
Field Notes – bon appétit – Language
The way that a magazine attracts its readers has a big deal to do with the language they employ. The name of the magazine I believe that the name of the magazine was apt for this publication as it does… Continue Reading
Field Notes – bon appétit: Typography
Unlike a number of magazines which tend to stick to a certain groups of typefaces which they use every issue in different ways, it appears that bon appétit has a tendency to feature a different typeface per issue depending on… Continue Reading
Field Notes – bon appétit: Organization
For the purpose of analyzing the way in which bon appétit is organized, I will be using the cover, TOC/index and departments/sections for illustration. The Cover Looking at the example above,… Continue Reading
Field Notes – bon appétit: Space
Overview The publication that I have decided to analyze is bon appétit, a monthly food and entertaining magazine under the parent company Condé Nast. The magazine which was established in 1956 and has provided its audience a plethora of recipes… Continue Reading
So, When Am I Allowed to Actually Call Myself a Designer?
From this title it may sound like I think I know a lot about design, but I am fully aware that I don’t; which is exactly why I signed up for this course. In all actuality, I know that I… Continue Reading