SOMATA Magazine Branding and publication design
Tools: Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop, WordPress
Visual Identity
Website Interface
Social media
Magazine layout
Media Kit
Business Plan
Team: Ariel Hudnall, Aurora van Roon, Carmen Tiampo, Jessica Key, Jessica Riches and Keyan Zhang
The SOMATA Magazine was created as a mock media/magazine in the Magazine/Media Project of Simon Fraser University's PUB606 course. In the Project, the team in agile teams to develop a new media model. Teams build prototypes of their media model that are presented to faculty and industry guests for feedback. Working incrementally and iteratively, teams are tasked with finding a market need, building a media model, presenting the model to an audience, and developing ways to start and sustain their media enterprise.
It is more than a magazine.
Somata is all about finding the value in fun and treating weirdness as worthwhile. We take food and booze seriously but not ourselves.
Somata is a food magazine, not a cooking magazine. That is to say, we’re more likely to publish an article that discusses the aesthetic merits of citrus fruits than a recipe for peach cobbler—unless that peach cobbler is really, really good. Even then, it would likely have to contain something new and exciting, or at least something boozy. If there is one thing we’d like our readers to take from us, it is to learn how to play with their food—while still exploring what makes it important.
