Echo Magazine
Echo is an independent editorial-design project for a fictional magazine covering music, visual culture, photography, creative industries, and emerging voices. The system balances consistency with story-specific expression across covers, contents pages, interviews, photo essays, profiles, commentary, and digital promotion.
Independent editorial portfolio project
2026
Editorial Designer, Art Director, Graphic Designer, Typography Designer
4 weeks
Project Gallery
Images and videos
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Project Overview
Independent editorial portfolio project. Echo is an independent editorial-design project for a fictional magazine covering music, visual culture, photography, creative industries, and emerging voices. The system balances consistency with story-specific expression across covers, contents pages, interviews, photo essays, profiles, commentary, and digital promotion.
Creative Challenge
Project Objectives
The campaign was structured around a clear set of communication goals.
- Support long-form reading
- Balance photography and text
- Give each story a distinct tone
- Maintain publication recognition
- Adapt selected content for digital promotion
Visual Direction
Echo uses strong editorial grids, serif headlines, clean metadata, condensed section labels, image-led opening spreads, pull quotes, folios, restrained accent colors, and documentary-style cultural imagery.
Campaign Deliverables
The identity was designed as a compact but believable graphic-design campaign system.
- Magazine cover
- Alternate cover
- Contents page
- Feature interview
- Music profile
- Photography essay
- Cultural commentary
- Digital article banner
- Social promotion
- Publication mockup
Case-Study Image Set
All visuals are separate full-resolution WebP boards arranged in the intended portfolio gallery order.
Tools and Production Role
Editorial Designer, Art Director, Graphic Designer, Typography Designer
- Adobe InDesign
- Adobe Photoshop
- Adobe Illustrator
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