I wanted to bring awareness to young women about being confident in your own skin. Many magazines today still present images that have been manipulated and altered which causes unrealistic expectations in beauty and damages self-esteem. In contrast, I use real, unfiltered images of girls who have been close in my life and have demonstrated all forms of self-confidence.
Title of The ProjectSenior Capstone Project - Unfiltered Magazine
Target Audience
Young women from ages 18–25 of any race, ethnicity, or culture who may need guidance with loving their self-image.
Young women from ages 18–25 of any race, ethnicity, or culture who may need guidance with loving their self-image.
My Role
Graphic Designer
Graphic Designer
Duration of Project
My research for this project started in September 2019 and I started creating my magazine from January 2020–May 2020.
My research for this project started in September 2019 and I started creating my magazine from January 2020–May 2020.
Process
When first starting this project, I had many ideas in mind of what I wanted to create for my senior capstone. I had the idea to use polaroids as a collaging effect, but unsure as to what to do with it. Another idea was to create a magazine for young women about loving your self-image. Then, I decided to put the two ideas together. I found that polaroid images are to be instant and authentic. I used many polaroids of each girl in my magazine portraying their personalities along with the stories I wrote about each of them. In addition, I created a process book of how I was inspired–I cut many images from other magazines and collaged them together. When keeping up with my process book I became even more inspired for my magazine and added the same collage effect to many of the layouts.
When first starting this project, I had many ideas in mind of what I wanted to create for my senior capstone. I had the idea to use polaroids as a collaging effect, but unsure as to what to do with it. Another idea was to create a magazine for young women about loving your self-image. Then, I decided to put the two ideas together. I found that polaroid images are to be instant and authentic. I used many polaroids of each girl in my magazine portraying their personalities along with the stories I wrote about each of them. In addition, I created a process book of how I was inspired–I cut many images from other magazines and collaged them together. When keeping up with my process book I became even more inspired for my magazine and added the same collage effect to many of the layouts.
In addition, the part I struggled the most on when developing "Unfiltered" were the covers. It took many drafts and sketches to finally see the light at the end of the tunnel. I decided to go with four individual covers for each girl featured in the magazine. I thought it would tie together nicely as you get to read about each and every one of them.
Final Results
Final magazine layout
Final magazine layout