Plastikcomb Magazine
Layout Design
Trends apart, Plastikcomb, or PCM as they’re known, holds their own in the printed space. Each issue is packed with interviews and prose with a variety of names in the art and design space.
Year: 2021
The brief
This project was a dream to work on. I and four other students of the Visual Communications Design major were handpicked by our professor to work with Plastikcomb Magazine. We were asked to design a page spread for each question for the interview of a collage artist, Kareem Rizk.
Designed in: Adobe Photoshop & Adobe InDesign
Published Layout
Below is the final layout design and the process of designing my individual spread. As a group, we would meet weekly and present the edit of our design to our professor for a critique and to revise our designs for the next week.
The Process
Within the slideshow below, you can view the timeline of how the final spread of the interview came to be. While having creative freedoms in designing this page spread, I still had to maintain not only typography and imagery principles. Plastikcomb Magazine’s style is rough, and centralizes around collage; this became the challenge of the process of designing this layout.
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Personal Expansion
After my experience in having my individual spread published, I was to experiment further within this particular style of layout design that Plastikcomb excels in. I chose to create my own version of a cover along with a few more spreads that contained interview questions that were not featured within the final publication.
