Welcome to our process!

Information Design students from COMM 4620 have created this blog to share about how exactly we are making our magazine. Here is a little more information about the project.

COMM 4620 is a fourth-year information design course at Mount Royal University where students work together to brand, write, and design a publication. This year, we have chosen to create a magazine called Effekt. We'll be taking everything we've learned over the past 3 years and applying it to this publication. When the project is completed, we'll have a magazine launch party to celebrate our accomplishments.

Each member of the class is working on a feature article with two or three other students. Every article explores the discipline of information design from a different angle.

Additionally, each student is part of two groups: one "page design" group and one "production" group. Interviews from each group will appear in future blog posts.

We meet as a group twice a week. Each morning, we go over our schedule and discuss the status of the magazine.

Meet Ben, our instructor.

Our instructor, Ben, presenting our current place on the schedule to the class.

During class, we take time to present interim deliverables from some of the student groups so that they can get some feedback from the class.

Discussing an early iteration of the grid for Effekt. Should we start our features on the left side or the right side of the spread?

Currently, are working on finishing up our features and starting to place text and images into our newly minted grid. We are also working on finalizing our name and identity--almost there!

Production groups will meet for the first time this week, which means that we've moved into the second phase of our project. This is exciting, and a little scary at the same time: we are supposed to go to print in a month!