Flip Dinero

Developing a magazine has been a great experience and allowed me to learn not only Adobe Products but about my creative side. My project insisted on a mix of Forbes and Money magazine as I illustrated successful people yet gave importance to money as well. These covers from Forbes Magazine inspired my cover, and I used them as a template. The first image is the Money Magazine Table of contents, which I mirrored yet made my own through adding cars and shifting the title placing. The second item is the Forbes Magazine spread example, one which I used the idea of a full page image. On the other image, I had the content yet replaced the page advertisement on top to images to give a more visual action to my Flip Dinero Magzine.

After a masthead, a magazine must attract the reader. I decided to incorporate words that describe my magazines content at the hope of intriguing people.   Words such as "entrepreneur", "fortune", and "success" all help symbolize what "Flip Dinero" is about. To further attract attention, I placed a quote from the successful model, a feature used by Forbes almost always, which shows advice and insight at the young man's story. To further mirror Forbes as an example, I placed a barcode on the bottom left corner and applied a shadow background. Both features specific and stable in all Forbes issues, a great component to a successful magazine.

x The Table of contents was mirrored from one of the highest praised magazine's in the world, Money Magazine. Money Magazine has an issue where they used a border around the main background color, I resembled this while adding a gold background and a texture to the background. This was not only for it to fit the magazine's genre but also for a unique trait to the magazine. Furthermore, Money Magazine also uses a large image to represent "Money", in this case, a clip art. In order to further exemplify a unique trait of Flip Dinero, I made these symbols cars. This is because it shows high value and a design like no other. Moreover, The large numbers attract the reader's attention as they standout by the white. I decided to make the title of the page reflect for another unique trait of having a complete spread table of contents. This illustrates a larger and more complex magazine when it comes to business and money.

The cover photo shoot took place in the school thanks to the model Ernesto Pedroso. We built a mise-en-scene around the "success" mindset. This meant showing extravagance and wealth within one picture. Thus, we used gold chains, dollar bills, and high-end brand clothes and fashion style to fit the scene. Not only so, but we must also decide between a euphoric wealth or a serious businessman look. Ultimately the businessman looks better to fit the image and thus we applied it. The shoot took around an hour taking in mind we had to find multiple gold chains and real dollar bills.  We used a white background for easier editing capability and to integrate a shadow behind the model replicated in the Forbes magazine. It was essential to have a one-man-show for the cover for maximum similarity to the Forbes Magazine. Because of my lack of skills and limit of InDesign ability ideas which i took from Money Magazine I could not do. For example, Money Magazine us...

Today's Society is driven by technology and the internet. Those who control or understand technology can become the most powerful and at times the richest individuals in the world. I interviewed a young man whose talent has allowed for the unveiling of the Miami-Dade Schools system. He is a 17 year old hacker from Miami Senior High. I designed a photo shoot that resulted in these pictures: I then took these photos to Photoshop were In darkened them and created a gray scale filter. This gave it the ominous and "Hacker look". Furthermore, I added the final edited picture to the spread. Working on the color scheme i decided to continue the ominous look with the black toned background and white letters. The article discussed the hackers accomplishments and the corruption at the school level. Not only so, I included the individual's quote and used the ongoing "gold" color scheme. I used a drop cap to emphasize the word "Hacker", this attra...

While planning for the photo shoot i decided to draw the cover out. I planned the subject to be over the masthead,thus, showing the importance of the business figure. In order for the masthead to not be unnoticed I decided to style it with the Photoshop design, "stroke". I plan to use Ernesto Pedroso for the photo shoot, and he will be modeling as a powerful, rich businessman. Not only so, in order to show this he will use be wearing 3 gold chains and a polo sweatshirt as expensive clothes. He will also show his money power by holding dollar bills in his hand. A serious face will illustrate his powerful and respectful image, and emphasize his role in the magazine. Lastly, i will place the bar code on the left of the cover and the header in the bottom right corner over the figure to pop-out as the most important article.