WALLAPER* MAGAZINE COVER

For its August issue the design magazine, Wallpaper*, is offering a unique opportunity for its readers to design their very own, bespoke cover. If ordered before 08 June 2010 you can use their online design facility to design the cover for your own issue which will be delivered to your door, and be unlike all the other issues published.


Bespoke design is core at Gabriel Design and thus this was too good an opportunity to miss out on. The online cover design facility provided a limited selection of graphic shapes, abstract photography, text, colours, patterns and textures, and allowed full positioning, rotational and scale control to the user.

I set myself the brief of designing a cover which would sit comfortably alongside the other items in the Gabriel Design brand, trying to mirror the feel of the new logo, stationery, website design, twitter image and this blog. Obviously in order to have a certain amount of control during the experiment Wallpaper* have limited the number of images and icons that can be used and ensured that all text, images and design elements match their own house style. With this in mind my own Gabriel Designed cover was completed and submitted to Wallpaper* last night and I now eagerly await the August issue in due course.


For those unaware of Wallpaper* the publication is described as follows: Truly international and hugely influential, Wallpaper* is the world’s most important design and style magazine. Our subscribers are the first to see the latest and greatest in modern design from around the globe.