Tom Quesse | 'Cello' - Digital Publication

'Cello'

Digital Publication | Student Project

This assignment was the final project for my last year of study at Northern Illinois University. The goal of this student project was to create a digital magazine that would be read using a tablet. We needed to include working interactive elements throughout it and different formats of media files embedded within it (including audio clips, video, and animations). The project was all created in Adobe InDesign.

For my subject matter, I decided to create an educational magazine about the cello. The idea was that this was an entry in a series that would highlight a different instrument in each issue. Having never picked up or played a cello in my life, this project took a lot of independent research. This included interviewing a music theory professor who specialized in the cello.

Fully Interactive

Throughout the magazine the user is given ample opportunities to do far more than just read. I made it my goal to come up with creative ways to 'show', rather than just 'tell'. When brainstorming the subject of this magazine, I pictured it as a way for kids to learn more about an instrument. This made me take the interactivity part of the project even more seriously. This meant the layouts needed to be interesting in both presentation and user interaction. There are plenty of opportunities throughout to listen to modern representation of this instrument and to satisfy any curiosity one might have about it.