Published by Haileybury, 2024
Editor: Toby Parker
Photography: Anya Campbell and Steve Beeston
Designed by James Brook
210mm x 245mm | 48 pages | Printed on 150 gsm Edixion Offset with 300 gsm machine-sealed soft cover by Gomer, Wales
This is the fifth issue of Perspectives, a magazine that I have designed since the first issue in 2022. The magazine is published by Haileybury School and was initiated from a desire to showcase the school’s heritage, current academic and cultural issues with new research about the school’s collections. Edited by Toby Parker, the Heritage Director and College Archivist at Haileybury, the magazine aims to examine the school’s role in a variety of cultural practices and issues, and to think critically about the way in which it interacts with other cultural institutions locally, nationally and globally.
The design is based around a rigourous but flexible layout that can accommodate different types of information, giving each section of the magazine its own distinct identity. The basic layout is a three column grid with type arranged on one, two or three columns giving a variety that helps differentiate each article. Titles, body text and images are often hung from a guideline that runs through the magazine giving a sense of order which is occasionally broken to create emphasis or visual energy. Images are prioritised throughout the magazine, often at full bleed. I have used type at different sizes, weights and combinations to create interesting titles and headers, arranged in sometimes playful ways with the text and images.
I created a palette of four colours that are used in rotation on the masthead and cover: ‘Perspectives Blue’, ‘Perspectives Gold’, ‘Perspectives Green’ and ‘Perspectives Red’. Designed to work together, different tints of these colours are used throughout the magazine to create a cohesive suite of colours with different moods and atmospheres that respond to images and the tone of individual articles in the magazine. The colours have been used in rotation and, on this fifth issue, is the first time that one of the colours has been repeated.
Over five issues, the design of the magazine has developed and adapted to accommodate different types of material but is still based on the basic three column grid that I designed for the first issue and still utilises my initial choice of typefaces, Calluna and Calluna Sans. The previous two issues had really pushed the layout and grid so, for this issue, I returned to some of the earlier layouts for inspiration to restore a sense of continuity and history.
