I decided to use my fishing magazine for my final portfolio best design submission because I think it really demonstrates my ability to figure out solutions to my design problems. When I first designed my magazine layout I was going for something simple. I chose to use just the picture of my can I made and colors from that can's label throughout my layout. After messing with it for a while I knew it was to simple and too monotone. The problem was I didn't know what color or colors to use. I spent almost an entire class period trying to decide what color, I tried yellows, blues, greens, reds, oranges, grays, tinted grays, and never liked any of them. Rusty was also trying to help me decide what color to choose, but I didn't like the ones he like and he didn't like the ones I liked. But then he suggested to choose a color from a picture, once that maybe I wasn't necessarily using in my layout. So I found a picture that had some dead grass in it, kind of a golden pale yellow color. I selected a sample from that photograph and tried it. I decided that it was the best color I had tried! Besides the color issue I had an issue with space. I had to much room behind the can and also to much room above the text on the right side page. I fixed these problems with pictures. I used a picture of clear water behind the can and made a cut out of a fish, possibly a bass but I don't know my fish very well. I put that fish above the text on the right side, overlapping with the color bar going across both pages. Throughout this layout I have created many different layers of depth. I have over lapped the picture behind the can and the color bar across the top of the page is in front of the picture of clear water. I also have the fish on top of the colored bar but behind text sub-header. I have also used a drop shadow on the sub-heading and the fishing techniques to create some depth. I have created unity throughout the two pages by using the same colors and having the color bar run across the top of both pages. These things also create different grounds, foreground and background. The proportioning of the can compared to the page, about 2/3, gives it a hierarchy and draws the eye to it. There is a grid system on both of the pages, the first page is an eight columns and the second page is nine columns. The theme that I tried to use for this layout was fishing for men. I have the emphasis or focal point of the layout being the can, with the title of the article in it. I have also created a contrast in color, the photo and the can are blues and the color blocks and fish are golden yellow.