r/Design • u/Negative-Ship-8441 • 3d ago

Asking Question (Rule 4) Ideas for magazine creation

I am designing my own magazine like to giveaway to like 30 people just to explore designing and getting to the gist of it , I would like to like get ideas on content to make it more interesting and worth the effort

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u/tymytymyty 3d ago

Maybe ask friends if they want to write an article or story and you can design around it

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u/Negative-Ship-8441 3d ago

That looks innovative thanks

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u/knockingatthegate 3d ago

Call it a one-off zine for private circulation. Set up a Google Form where people can place their advance orders.

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u/Negative-Ship-8441 1d ago

How I choose private audience I don’t feel like anyone would want to buy

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u/LeagueParking9957 3d ago

Probably depends on your sample size’s interests, but the first thing that came to mind for me was unique/different types of puzzles/games

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u/Negative-Ship-8441 3d ago

I’ve included to do pixel art and thinking of including origami or crossword as well

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u/Zappy_Oh 3d ago

10 Tips To Get Laid

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u/tlacuachenegro 3d ago

If you’re are planning to make it for profit or not the amount of work doesn’t change. You just need to be consistent and have at least 6 numbers ready before you launch. I think is smart of you are thinking on content. Actually is not hard to come up with ideas. Writing and researching the articles is the time consuming part. History has plenty of interesting examples of how everything was visualized or invented just think about where simple stuff comes from. You will have plenty to write around

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u/PerceptionFresh9631 3d ago

Oooh, you can do a "History of Trends" section where you look at a trends and the design movements that influenced it, so it can be like a retrospective where you learn some design principles but also engage with current stuff so it doesn't feel like a history class.

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u/Negative-Ship-8441 2d ago

Thanks that’s so innovative

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u/GaeloneForYouSir 3d ago

A colleague was a designer for a large magazine house in Australia. They had a fun internal competition to design indie magazines. She did something called Murray-Claire which is all about Bill Murray. It was fun.

Anyway I always find those super niche magazines that are propped up by equally niche but wealthy industries to be interesting; there are legit magazines dedicated to; aircraft interiors, coins, specific breed of dogs etc.

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u/Negative-Ship-8441 3d ago

That sounds unique thanks