Lesson 23

To get some ideas for my group project which is coming sooner and sooner, i took to the internet to get some ideas and look at some designs and themes that magazines and newsletters use for a health segment. Our target audience is women hence we have to look into a design and layout that appeals to them. Here are some health layouts (Not all examples relate to my part about diet, but the examples put up are related to the theme of health to get a feel for the general layout, pictures and content used by this category)

http://www.phoenixhelix.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/DSC01140.jpg

What i like about this first layout is the theme it adopts, it is doing an article on sleep (Natalie's part). It uses a very nice and calming white that feels like clouds to me giving that dream look. The nice light colours blends very well with the background and is visible.

http://www.7things.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/pick20up20your20posture11.jpg

Another example i got was this, similar to the previous example, this example makes use of one colour for the theme, green. Why i like this layout is because the green just screams "health" to me with that fresh colour. The article is also spacious and very neat.

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This one is a strange one to me, i find it both good an bad. I like the concept as it uses animated figures to show the health components. However it is too cramp for me and there are too many colours that i do ot feel any flow in the article.

http://calorielab.com/news/wp-images/post-images/fytte-morning-banana-diet-spread.jpg

This newsletter, is one i find really bad, it is a diet article in japan. To me everything seems to be wrong, there is no colour theme, no proper layout, no flow, it is messy and it looks like it is published for a child. 

http://theharcombediet.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/Star071209web.jpg

The last one, i like the concept here, the way they use the pictures and colours. Compared to the previous example, it uses the same colourful concept but it is much nicer and is laid out well.  It does seem a bit cramped to be honest but i see a flow when reading it. 

After looking through some of these health articles and layouts i feel i have a better idea on what type of pictures and colours i want to use. The deadlines are coming thick and fast so its time to really concentrate on my project.