Form & Content 3

Form & Content 3

This week I found an article in Vol. 42 of CMYK, a very popular visual communication magazine. The article discusses the act of self-publishing your own work and some examples of how to do so. They interview four publishers of their magazine who have all had experiences publishing their own works.

The form of the article is set up almost like a scrapbook with the first two pages looking like the pages of an open book. The header is quite interesting and is definitely what initially caught my eye. Black and pink are the colors used continuously throughout the theme of the piece. This use of color really keeps the unity throughout the page layout. The header represents the text of the article, because if the artist's interesting use of heavy rules. They appear to be books on a shelf. I also really like how they mixed the use of a serif and a sans-serif font with reversed out type. Another visual aspect I especially liked was the black text boxes with the pink text used throughout the rest of the piece. It really pulled it together very nicely. All these aspects together made the piece very visually interesting and easy to read. It was also a very insightful article, and the artwork just seemed to complete all aspects.