The document describes the process taken to design the cover of a K-pop magazine mockup. Key details include cropping and placing a masthead font on the cover, adding the magazine title in Korean text above the masthead, using a gradient of pink and green colors for the cover background inspired by other magazines, editing the model's hair for a smooth edge, including the album name and artist's name on the cover inspired by real K-pop albums, and adding additional Korean text elements and a barcode inspired by other magazine layouts.

1. Using my flat plan as a guide, I got my masthead’s font from
dafont.com, cropped around it and placed it onto my front
cover. I had to make sure it was big enough to be one of the first
things my reader sees but not big enough to go over my model’s
face. Looking at real media texts, I know that mastheads are
normally placed on the forehead and the top of the cover star’s
head which is what I did. Using the magic wand tool, I deleted the
white background of the text.

2. 케이팝 잡지
Kpop Magazine
Focusing on KPOP LIFE’S layout of the Hangeul text
inspired me to do the same. I found the translation
for ‘Kpop Magazine’ in Korean text and placed it on
top of my masthead. I made sure it was lined up to
make it look more professional as well as making it
white to match the masthead’s colour, like KPOP LIFE
does.

3. I really loved the gradient on this issue of POP featuring
Hyuna, Kpop singer from the groups 4Minute and Wonder
Girls. To recreate it, I placed my artist’s name in the centre
to balance the cover along with my masthead, selected the
letters and used two bright shades of pink & green that I
thought would represent Kpop’s bright and vibrant
representations that my target audience told me
about.

4. 1 2 3 4
I created these four colour schemes: two brighter and two more pastel. I asked for feedback
from my target audience on which looks better. Here are the results:
1: 2 | 2: 6 | 3: 0 | 4: 4
Number 2 was agreed to be the best because it “stands out the most”; I agree as it matches
my cover star’s makeup and shirt.

5. Whilst working on my cover, I
noticed this white, jagged line
outlining my model’s hair; it made
the whole image look
unprofessional so using the lasso
tool, spot healing brush tool and
quick selection tool I carefully cut
around my model’s hair and took
away some strands to leave a
smooth edge around my model.

6. At this point, I had the idea of including YEO
YOONJIN’s new album name, SEOULFUL, on the
front cover but I did not know what type of font to
use. Using real media texts for realism, I saw
what Kpop groups use for their album fonts and
experimented as well as swapping colours and
fonts with YOONJIN’s name; I chose the one
circled in blue because I loved the total contrast of
the artist’s name with the thin album’s name.

7. To add more Korean elements to
my front cover, I searched up the
Hangeul text for the captial city,
Seoul, that inspired my album’s
name. I placed this by the album; I
also did this will YOONJIN’s
name.

8. The layout of this section of text uses two
graphics: one of BTS name in Hangeul and
their ‘Wings Tour’ logo. For Kpop fans, their
favourite groups’ name in Hangeul is
easy to spot which is why I used the
Korean text for all of my coverline
headers; the ‘Wings Tour’ logo combines
nicely with my third piece of text that relates
to the concept of the logo.

9. My particular barcode’s layout and positioning on my
front cover is heavily inspired by 10asia+Star’s. After
making the top version, I felt like it looked a little too
boring therefore added my glitch background colours.
Masthead/Logo
Year.Month of Issue
Number of Issue
Price
Magazine’s Website
Barcode