Good Homes Magazine
Duration: 2 weeks
Brief: To analyse a magazine and redesign a few pages of it
Good Homes was launched in May 1998. BBC Magazines, the BBC Worldwide subsidiary publishes it.
It is full of inspiring ideas and the latest trends to help users create the perfect home. It’s packed with helpful advice, beautiful real homes, new products and decorating ideas to give your living space a lift.
It is full of inspiring ideas and the latest trends to help users create the perfect home. It’s packed with helpful advice, beautiful real homes, new products and decorating ideas to give your living space a lift.
Problems:
Text is too crowded which makes reading difficult | Unnecessary use of pictures | Description of pictures not readable | Too much importance is given to the ‘GoodHomes’ | Distinguish between heads and subheads can be done in better manner | The overall page layout is too blocky and boring.
Text is too crowded which makes reading difficult | Unnecessary use of pictures | Description of pictures not readable | Too much importance is given to the ‘GoodHomes’ | Distinguish between heads and subheads can be done in better manner | The overall page layout is too blocky and boring.
Solution:
The new layout is more interesting and catches attention | The pictures are of the feature stories and cover stories | There is a proper distinguish between heads and subheads | There is a lot of content but it is properly spaced out.
The new layout is more interesting and catches attention | The pictures are of the feature stories and cover stories | There is a proper distinguish between heads and subheads | There is a lot of content but it is properly spaced out.
Problems:
The main problem is of navigation | The description of pictures is not differentiated from the main article leading to more navigaion problems | Unnecessary pictures use extra space leading to stretch this article into more pages which can be eliminated.
The main problem is of navigation | The description of pictures is not differentiated from the main article leading to more navigaion problems | Unnecessary pictures use extra space leading to stretch this article into more pages which can be eliminated.
Solution
The main problem of navigation is solved by having proper flow of the text in the article | The description of pictures has seperate treatment as compared to the text of article so there is no mix up of information | The unnecessary images have been removed and less important images have been resized | As a result, the article occupies less number of pages and can be fitted in 2 spreads.
The main problem of navigation is solved by having proper flow of the text in the article | The description of pictures has seperate treatment as compared to the text of article so there is no mix up of information | The unnecessary images have been removed and less important images have been resized | As a result, the article occupies less number of pages and can be fitted in 2 spreads.
