I did a lot of brainstorming for this cover, and I wanted my overall idea to be that socializing with family and friends can be a great stress reliever. After chatting with my own friends one had commented, in jest, that ‘a good bottle of wine and a chat with friends c...

Continuing on with working on designs for the new magazine cover, I whittled down my idea to the two wine glasses - and decided not to move forwards with the other two. Now the real work began trying to hone this idea and start trying out some of the techniques I had w...

When working through the mind map (shown in previous post), the point is to come up with ideas generated through linking the boxes.  Here are the sketches I came up with for various ideas:

I like the idea of visually exploring the viscosity of the liquids in the glass,...

Designing a new cover for a magazine is lots of fun! The earliest stage is brainstorming, and a good way of documenting this is through a mind map process.

If you're not familiar with this idea then check this article out first, just click the image:

The theme of the mag...