Graphic designers

Jop Van Bennekom (Fantastic Man)

• Art Director and Editor Jop van Bennekom is the founder of the influential men's magazine FANTASTIC MAN and the sensational women's magazine THE GENTLEWOMAN.

• Both titles are testing grounds for his strong concepts and groundbreaking photo shoots and graphic design skills.

• ANTASTIC MAN has provided a whole decade of entertainment and excitement in magazine form. Throughout its anniversary year and beyond, the original style journal for men will continue to redefine the genre.

• Fanatstic Man magazine is relevent to my magazine as the graphic design on the front cover as seen from the following slide is simplistic but very formal and effective. There is ofetn a white background around the image which makes it stand out. The mast head is also always in the same place and the same found to create a successful brand through repetition. The images show off Bennekoms excellent photography through capturing different male emotions and presenting them in a neat and tidy format. I can adjust the simplicity of this magazine and use it for mine with the layout of fonts and photographs to create neat and tidy magazine.

Fantastic Man examples

Mike Meire (o32c)

• 032c magazine is an English-language, bi-annual contemporary culture magazine that covers art, fashion, and politics. Mike Meire is driven far less by the desire to make a statement than by an earnest ambition to offer people products that are different from all the other ones already available to them on the market. He focuses on the alternatative and different.

• There is a great hype surrounding 032c having long abated.• o32c is a contemporary magazine that focuses on a wide rang of topics. It has a simple

for effective cover page with a bright red page with a main dominating photo. The colours work well together and are very effective. This draws attention to the magaizne through great graphic design skills which I hope to recreate in my own magazine.

o32c

David Carson (raygun)

• David Carson (born September 8, 1954) is a sucessful American graphic designer and art designer making him a very talented person. He is best known for his innovative magazine design and use of experimental typography. He was the art director for the magazine Ray Gun, where he but his typography into practice to create an aphetically pleasing magazine.

• Raygun is a magazine that has no boundaries and the concept is pure craziness through the unstructured design and presentation of the magazine. The covers consist of many complicated layers that includes fonts and pictures with a wide variety of fonts, colours and shapes. I can adapt Carsons b rillian ideas and presntation in my own mgazine through having no bouderies and being fully creative to creat an applealing magazine for my audience that will be attractive and genre appropiate.

raygun