Communication Design 1 — The Walrus Magazine
Being given the topic of Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (TRC), I first had to understand what my given topic meant or what it is about — a mandate that learns and documents the history of Indian Residential Schools. Not knowing what Indian Residential Schools were, I started my research into finding out the importance of this history that the TRC spent years to record and document the long history of Canada that is unknown to Canadians today. The research was written into a report which makes up the written content of for this double-page spread.
Process Work
Before creating the digital drafts, I started off by determining the target audience for this specific magazine. The Walrus Magazine is very content heavy, as the topics and stories issued in this magazine are ones from artists and writers whose works are to create discussions and conversations. Given that the target audience are intellectual people who seeks for quality content, I started off by drawing a few flat plan sketches of the double spread layout. I thought of and explored a few layouts that would emphasize the images which creates a historical yet contemporary mood, in addition to containing the amount of content I had to include from my research report.
