The page has a lot of text. In order to increase readability, try breaking up the paragraphs a little more by either adding a bit more space between them or adding a few pictures. People are drawn in by snippets of text - more negative space helps achieve this.
Also, the sub-title is a little hard to read because of the bold background; it needs a little more polish to convey the message.
Like the other reviewers have said, the text spacing needs work. I'm supposed to want to read the text not ignore it.
I won't waffle on, just read the reviews above me and you have all the advice you need.
I do like the initial idea it's just the execution needs some work.
Good luck, I look forward to seeing the next version.
This is a pretty cool and creative design. Here are a few of my thoughts though:
Great start, just a few edits.
I like the colors and great job. Maybe change the gray and black dot colors.
The white lines just not working.
As its related to creativity, you might want to try some different font for the heading.
Try some other fonts on the title, this one is very static. And if it says "creative color", why is it black? ;) The small subtitle is hard to read, maybe use some background? I would make the article background a little bit transparent, and change the colours of article titles. Again, the font doesn't look very good... But I like the colourful painting behind.
I am 55 and with my glasses on have to look to hard to read it and that just made me stop and close
This is not the real size. This is a magazine so the size should be about A4. The text is around 14px. It is very readable.
I'll declare that I'm a big fan of pastels and muted tones. Heavy colours don't do it for me. I honestly could never get through your entire article. The hard colours are just to much for me. My eyes are hurting writing this review.
As for the body, Serina is spot on: There is just too much text. Don't forget about the merits of whitespace. Cramming everything together not only makes it hard to read, but it also makes a daunting at first glance.
Web pages are fluid, you really do have all the same you need. Extend the body after the fold and tone down the colours. The red titles don't do anything. Always use colours responsibly!
I think you should read the description first before you post a comment. THIS IS NOT A WEB PAGE!
ITS A MAGAZINE article page. It's common to have more than three columns.
My apologies Fenson!
Still needs more whitespace and the colours are overly harsh in any medium.
Good luck.
I like this background graphic a LOT. I think you could make it look less like a magazine article with much larger, ADD friendly headers and more space between header text and paragraphs. I suggest reducing the amount of text and maybe reduce the line spacing? If "pulse" is important perhaps you could remove some of the spatter behind it so that it has a nice halo of white space.
The hardest thing about page layout is readability, I agree with Serina's points, you really need to break up the text a bit. Add some pull quotes in, use more white space in a magazine layout this is your friend.
The background is ok, it's not great, but it works. Remove the the lines, and some of the black. Also print media is one of the few places that you can play with typography, so indulge upon it, get creative and maybe look at removing the background image altogether and focus the typography title with colour behind it, and have the text on a white background with pull quotes.
It's hard to explain without re-doing it the way I see it, but I would suggest looking at it from the reader's point of view. One other thing, there doesn't seem to be any paragraph or text styles added, if you are using Indesign or Quark these are things that you should research and play around with.
Good Luck, it's a good first attempt!
Hi I like your background but you did not focus on text area. I think this project need some "lightness". I agree with Aaran that you could think about more interesting typography, espacially in the title. In this form text seems to be boring and more formal that curious article should be.
Good luck!