This is a conceptual layout I designed for a new supermarket magazine. I was asked to create key layouts to show the different sections of a magazine from product and recipe pages to feature layouts. The idea was to use bright juicy photography and bold type, while still using white space to achieve a clean modern uncluttered feel. I also put together a range of devices for the different sections to help the consumer gather the valuable information they needed at a glance.
Programs used: InDesign/Photoshop

Toyota Aygo magazine is a double-sided, flip-around, Lifestyle/Car Brochure publication. It is a Pan-European magazine that is translated into 9 different languages. I was called in to design the lifestyle section alongside the Art Director. The design created would then serve as a template for the various translators to work on. In addition to the layout of the magazine, I was asked to design a series of 6 (AO) posters of the Toyota Aygo car, for Toyota's internal marketing campaigns.
Programs used: InDesign/Photoshop/Illustrator

Homebase Ideas is a contemporary consumer magazine which caters for all DIY enthusiasts. From redesigning your children’s bedroom to tiling your own kitchen, it also offers inspiring examples and advice from professionals within the industry. As part of the design team, my responsibilities included creating multiple features and several advertorials for the products promoted within the publication.
Programs used: InDesign/Photoshop

At Men's Fitness magazine I have enjoyed working on a variety of layouts, whether it be complex, heavily gridded exercise pages to features that allow me to express my creativeness as a designer, all of course within the style parameters of the magazine.
In addition to designing, I have created numberous graphs and illustrations to accompany factual points on various 'fit list' pages. I was also given the opportunity to work on their 186 page 'Ultimate Workout Plan' bookazine from creating the templates and style sheets to designing the pages.
Programs used: InDesign/Photoshop/Illustrator

I regularly work on MacUser, where my main role is to layout the front end of the magazine such as the news and reviews pages. On occasion I get to design a feature as shown in these layouts. In the above spreads, I was asked to create an illustration that would hold together the feature as the article itself was of a boxed out nature. 

In these second set of spreads, I again took an illustrative direction by using pictographic icons and bold colours to break up heavy copy. The result is a visually enticing layout that allows the reader to follow the article in a clear and precise manner.
Programs used: InDesign/Illustrator

I was called in to take the lead as freelance Art Editor on relaunching Debenhams Desire magazine back into the market in time for Christmas. I was responsible for developing the templates through to the designing of all the pages. I was required to liaise with previously existing photographers and image libraries and finding new and exciting contacts as well. Part of my role also included cataloguing products and sending them off to be photographed. I liaised with prepress upon finalising pages and sending them off to print all successfully completed within a very tight deadline.
Programs used: InDesign/Photoshop

Based upon my initial concepts, the pitch was won for us to design a quarterly, health/lifestyle magazine for Life Pharmacy. It covered a wide range of content from profiling fashion designers through to newly released beauty products and medical advice on fighting colds and flu (etc). I was given the opportunity to art direct this publication from concept through to finished design, picture research, art work and generate working templates of the design. I was also given the responsibility to press pass this publication on site at the printers for 3 days.
Programs used: QuarkXpress/Photoshop

I was given the opportunity to redesign and restructure this magazine. It involved directly liaising with the client regarding articles and images supplied. I undertook all the amendments both editorial and design as well as preparing the magazine for final print. I received positive feedback from the client and their readers, who regarded the issue I designed as ‘the best one yet’.