Hello Readers! Since I've been looking at a lot of magazines lately I decided to write about one of my favorite design magazines and websites. Although this magazine stopped its issues in the beginning of this year, the website is and will still be up and running. Enjoy!
Layers Magazine is “ongoing aspiration is to equip creative minds with the up-to-the-minute tools they need to build the digital masterpieces of tomorrow”. This now only online magazine covers up to date tools and information for Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop, GoLive, Acrobat, After Effects, Premiere Pro, Dreamweaver and Flash. Readers and users of this website would work or be interested in the fields of Graphic/Digital Designers, Photographers, video editors and animators. Kelby Media Group are the people responsible for the creation of Layers magazine along with Photoshop User, Photoshop World, the Adobe Seminar tour and the National Association of Photoshop Professionals.
On the home page of Layers Magazine the navigation bar is right under the logo and advertisement ad. The main navigation bar is very distinguishable but is also somewhat blended in with the bar of the adobe applications that are linked to their specific pages, which I will get more in depth later. The navigation bar links to the tutorials, layers magazine, Blog, Reviews, and Layers TV. There is a hierarchy among the navigation systems because there is one navigation system above the logo on every page. Both navigation bars do indeed stay visible as you navigate throughout the site, but once you click on the links the colors do not change meaning you aren’t aware if you visited that webpage or not.
Even though you aren’t aware of a visited webpage or not the site’s architecture is very clear and understandable. The site does appear to have a deep architecture since it covers several adobe applications and the topics that are covered are very broad.
Layers Magazine uses a sans serif for its typography. There are many hierarchies between the type because of the many topics, and written content, but the hierarchies are placed well so the information is understood. Some titles have different colors and the colors are consisted with the level of its importance, also the body text is usually smaller, black and lighter, but the main titles of the main subjects have a bigger size and has a black color.
The majority of the imagery on this site is related to design and the topics the the site covers. It adds a better understanding of the subject of the links and what to expect. The images fit well along the grid structure that remains consistent as you navigate throughout the website. The focal point of most of the pages are the Layers magazine Logo and the two navigation bars along with the icons of the adobe applications.
There are many colors on the Layers magazine website because of the imagery, because it’s a designers website that covers a plethora of information. But when it comes to the basis of the website like its logo and text the colors blue, red, white and black are used throughout the site.
So when you get a chance visit: www.layersmagazine.com
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