Today was a good day. It started with me finding excellent data about porn search terms on the Data Insight blog of Pornhub (totally safe for work) and merging this data together so that I can start to create a graphic out of it. Than the “Projektbörse” followed: A room full (too full) of excited students listening to a few professors explaining their projects. I used the time mainly to thought of ideas for the realisation of the just mentioned porn graphic; and when the result will look as good as it does in my sketch book, than I’m happy.
Then I got a good idea and put a border around the new-media part of my spreads in my new minimalistic magazine. I really like the 3D effect the double page had then. But my highlight today was a consultation with my supervisor M. - he said, the version I was working on in the last few days looks “like a science book”, a little bit dull and not minimalistic enough. And that I should look at swiss designers. And this feedback was PERFECT. It helped so much! I’m glad I went to him for a critique DURING my process, and now with the final magazine. He basically said: Change everything. And that’s exactly what I needed to hear. So my next magazine won’t look like the top image here, but like the bottom: One typeface on most pages (because that’s more minimalistic). More white space. Less colors.