Can you paint with all the Colors of the Wind?

Welcome back! Your presence has been missed greatly!

Now that I've shown you all Joomag, I have began creating my pages (ahh so exciting)!

With that being said, the initial thing I did was choose a color scheme. Since my issue of Relatable is the breakout of summer, I have chosen the colors of bright orange, a light teal/blue color, and black for the lettering. I used orange because it is associated with joy, sunshine and the tropics; a nice blend of happy yellow and the energetic red. Similarly, I used blue to contrast the orange because the general thought of blue is calmness. However, since the blue I chose is a bright and very light color, it reminded me of the chlorinated swimming pools I used to swim in when I was younger and attended day camp during the summer. The colors are very summery and should allow the viewer to feel as if they have jumped right into the season; grab your beach towels and sunscreen everyone! For more on color psychology, I have provided two additional links at the bottom of the page.

The next step, which I am currently approaching, is coming up with story titles to put on the front cover. At the moment, I have these:

Personally, I am liking the way this looks so far, and I am 95 percent sure that I will do a double page story on summer trends. However, I still need to get my images, especially my front cover image. So, all of this may be subjected to change. If it does, I will post a new cover picture :)



https://www.colorpsychology.org
http://www.arttherapyblog.com/online/color-psychology-psychologica-effects-of-colors/#.WNWS6bG-JE4

Just 'Joo' It

Hey bloggers, welcome back. I've missed you all very much.

So, recently, my teacher shared with us students creating magazines for our Foundation Portfolios a website called Joomag. It's this really neat website that allows you to easily create magazine pages. So, not only can I begin putting my edition of Relatable together, but it also allows me to play around with the website and figure out what works best and what doesn't.

Putting a magazine together is part of the reason I choose this option for my foundation portfolio. A fact that I haven't shared with you all yet is that I am a profound staffer for my school's newspaper. As a staffer-- as we call it-- I not only write articles for the newspaper, but I am also tasked with creating and laying out the newspaper pages. Laying out the pages means that I have to drag and drop the written article text that is planned to go on a certain page, add a picture, come up with a headline, and add captions if needed, all while making sure everything is aligned and stylistic. Both this and writing articles for newspaper will aid me greatly because I will have to write my own magazine story to go on the double page spread and I also have to layout a cover page, a table of contents, and the double page spread. It seems like a lot of work, but I enjoy doing these things; in a way it relaxes me.

I am going to leave a link to Joomag at the bottom of the page, and I'm going to provide an image of the Joomag magazine template page since I am aware that Joomag is difficult to get into for free. I'm excited to start putting my work together, and I hope all of you are too!

<3




https://www.joomag.com/

A Miracle Starts with the Beat of a Heart

"Select your friendships carefully. Gather people who will reinforce your lifestyle." ~ Dan Buettner

Welcome back to my blog!!!! I'm so excited you could join me.

Today, I will be discussing lifestyle with all of you. A big part of your lifestyle is the things you surround yourself with. Yes, as a teenager, I go to school. And yes, I get homework every day. This however is not my lifestyle. My lifestyle is surrounding myself with the things I love, such as dance (I am a dancer) and people who hold the same passions as myself. This is what makes a lifestyle, hence the quote above.

Many popular fashion magazines, such as my inspirations of Teen Vogue and Seventeen Magazine, include a lifestyle section. This features stories either from celebrities sharing information about the way they live their lives or anecdotes from what we are accustomed to calling every-day-people; in other words, non celebrities.

I am not sure if I want this to be a two-page double spread story if I would prefer to save that for a summer fashion story. Regardless I feel that this would be an awesome article to include in the June issue of Relatable. It can keep the target audience connected to the content because they will see real-life encounters of either things they wish to accomplish in their lives or lifestyles that match their own. It can serve as an encouragement to keep going.

The lifestyle tabs of Teen Vogue and Seventeen Magazine are listed below this post. Again, these are where I got information from, I have taken much inspiration from these two sources because what they represent is similar enough to what my group and I hope Relatable Magazine will be known for.

Next issue, I plan on starting to develop my pages! Stay tuned and have a good day!!!



http://www.teenvogue.com/story/21-under-21-

http://www.seventeen.com/life/real-girl-stories/