World Religions Digital Magazine
Mag+
Photoshop
Indesign
Tumult Hype
For my digital publication I chose World Religions. It has always fascinated me. I, as well as others, could learn more about them, and I figured there would be plenty of assets to work with. I also took a world religions institute class and had taken notes on each of them so I felt I had some decent information for each but would need to do plenty of research to make the publication more complete.
I began by making a folder for the publication as a whole, and inside that, I divided up each religion into its own folder so I could keep all assets separate and organized from each other.
Now that I had all of my assets gathered, I started with designing the cover which would also double as the table of contents. I had come across this image online on the right which led to me creating my version for the publication.
I took that concept and made my own version, highlighting each of the eleven religions I wanted to feature. Overall I was happy with how it looked, but I got thinking, “How could I make this more interactive and interesting to look at? I decided to drop this into Hype and animate each symbol to disappear and be replaced with the name of the religion.
Next, I started designing my articles in Indesign. I had firmly chosen to do it in portrait. I thought it would lend itself better than landscape. My teacher and I met to discuss my project and see the progress I was making and we decided that it needed to be redone to be more interactive. We talked about different ideas and decided that landscape would suit itself better for interactivity.
The left menu is static, the user can tap on any section, say ‘Founder’, and it will jump to that section on the right. The user can also scroll on the right side of the screen as well to view and interact with content, not totally relying on the sections on the left. I added each specific religion’s symbol throughout each publication that the user can tap on to view additional content such as pictures or audio. The world and religious symbols on the left provide the navigation once the user is inside the publication. Each symbol allows them to jump to that religion and tapping the earth takes them back to the cover if they so choose.
The final addition I added to my publication is kind of an Easter Egg for the user. If the user taps on the earth on the cover, it will show a blank map of the world. They can select a religion and the top 5 countries with the most followers will be highlighted in a specific color. There were two religions that I could not get any numbers on as far followers, Confucianism and Shinto.