Love Green Places

Working in the studio as a graphic designer I get involved with a lot of different projects, but this week I wanted to tell you a bit about one particular magazine design that I work on every month and really look forward to – Green Places.

The monthly magazine is for a charity called GreenSpace who are all about getting people involved with the green spaces in their area; whether that's a back garden, local park, nature reserve or community allotment. The magazine itself combines small news articles about local groups, articles about major landscape design from around the world and feature articles about the amazing people and the projects they work on. It really does introduce some intriguing places – a proposal for an underground city park in New York?! - that you'd never know existed if it wasn't for organisations like GreenSpace. So when we had the opportunity to re-design and print their monthly magazine I was up for the challenge!

Back in September 2012 I presented my initial designs for the magazine, which were met with  some really positive feedback and so I began on the first month’s magazine. Each magazine has a different focus, but by keeping to the clean page structure and careful use of a few key, the end result is an easy to read magazine with a strong identity.

The initial proposal included a new colour palette with each month being a different colour to representing the seasons. So, with the spine of each issue being a different colour, the idea is that you’ll have a beautiful rainbow bookshelf by the end of the year.

Many of the articles included in the magazine also come with some amazing imagery which is always made the most of. The images really help bring the articles to life, especially when they are covering topics such as an artificial island being built in waterways of Istanbul, the history for Gorky's park in Russia and ...SPOILER ALERT... incredible edible town's around the UK!

The great thing about this project is the combination of interesting articles, amazing imagery and a really strong design which is getting better and better each month! I thoroughly enjoy working on it and the studio are always delighted with the results.