CANDIZE MAG
CANDIZE MAGAZINE
Focusing on the people of Toronto. Candize Magazine’s mission is to provide a platform for the people of Toronto to share their history, stories, experiences, art, fashion, food, landmark sites and so much more. For other community members and the world, Candize Magazine is just one finger tip away. Through the glossy pages of the physical print or through their interactive website.
- WEBSITE: www.chantaecandize.com
- INSTA: @candizemag
Meeting through the sohohouse x creative fellowship mentorship program, Chantae and I developed the face and brand of her newly launched Toronto Magazine. Using an attractive bright colour palatte and Chantae’s love of plants. I designed a cover page that brought forth the ideas of pushing through stagnation, developing your skills, and blossoming as a creative.
"GROWTH AND CREATIVITY"
Before diving into the creation of the cover page, I persuaded Chantae to begin the process of branding her magazine. I provided Chantae with my graphic design client form for her to fill out, after reviewing the completed design form. I arranged a zoom meeting to further discuss the form and her ideas. Given samples of other popular magazines for inspiration. The aim was to create a sophisticated yet fun magazine that focused on Toronto talent.
I produced a unique typeface logo that took inspiration from a mash up of Vogue and Fiasco fashion magazines. Once the branding was approved and given only two words growth and creativity, I pitched the idea of using a paper cut technique as the style for the first issue of Candize magazine. I vectorized images of plants, had the images cut from paper through a Cricut machine and hand placed every leaf and bloom as well as photograph, edit and submitted the digital photographs to Chantae to be printed.
Using the same paper cut technique, I was able to recreate Chantae’s head shot as a unique illustration for her portrait on the editors page.
