The City Limit Journal

These covers were made as concepts for a journal magazine focusing on inner-city issues, with a slant toward inner-city youth and their lives in the modern world.

The primary focus of the design language was on the feeling of "inner-city" issues and the many views and sides there are with any issue and struggle. This was achieved through the use of bold bright colors and thick heavy lines, specifically with the red square giving the feeling of a boundary, or a "limit". Since the magazine focuses on issues within the inner city - any parts of the image that go underneath and beyond the red square are desaturated to black and white - this helps to emphasize that this magazine focuses strictly on what goes on within the city and those living in it.

Some of the aspects of the design that were considered were the breaking of certain boundaries and thinking outside the box when considering the subject matter within each magazine. I decided to represent this by positioning the cover images so that some part of a living person is always expanding beyond the red boundary into the black-and-white areas.

The typography was kept simple and clean and remains relatively consistent between issues in its color language - with the exception of special editions.

Format: Journal

Content: Important and often uncomfortable inner-city issues with a slant towards the youth that are affected by them.

Layout, cover images, & headlines created by me.