Flat Plans for Preliminary Task

These are the flat plans for my college magazine 'College Weekly'. I had decided to make the design of my college magazine as simple as possible, because I didn't want to overcomplicate the cover with too much going on since I planned to keep the full image when I got round to the creation of the magazine instead of getting rid of the background of the image, so I made sure the cover wasn't going to be too busy. 

When I came round to design the contents page of my college magazine, I wanted to keep the simplistic design of the front cover throughout the rest of the magazine. I decided to take some of the college logo artwork and use it kind of like a border around the page to give the page more colour, because the art work is the colour scheme of the college, which is 3 different shades of orange, two different shades of blue and one shade of blue. I plan to make 3 of the articles the main focus on the contents page, and I put those in boxes to separate them from the rest of the articles to the right. I placed the rest of the articles on the right hand side because people generally read from right to left, so they would be the last thing the audience looks at on the page.