This is the opening spread for our Summer Movie Preview in Make-Up Artist issue 84. After looking through all the images I had for this piece I saw what the title was and there was no question in my mind that using Scarlett Johansson from Iron Man 2 would be the perfect opening. She exemplified every word in the title. So I did cut-out of her from the background and put my title art together. This is also a perfect example of how my title art drives the design for the rest of the article. I didn’t have a clear idea of how I wanted to layout the photos in this piece until the title art was in place with its overlapping orange boxes. After that the theme seemed obvious.

One of the things I’ve mentioned before on this blog is how I approach all my article designs with the need of “entry points.” These are areas on the page that catch the reader’s eyes and break up the monotony of plain text. It gives the reader different areas of interest to “enter” the article. For the piece the info boxes you see with brackets were not a part of the original written text. I made the decision during production to add these as a way of giving readers quick bites of information before they dove into the rest of the text. These along with sub-headlines and caption boxes give the reader a choice of how much or how little information they want to pursue.

You can see more images from Issue 84 here.