POLITIKEN HISTORIE
Working closely with Politikens Head of Design, Søren Nyeland, I've designed Denmarks premiere history magazine: Politiken Historie.
It's 100 pages are printed on luxurious uncoated and heavy paper that feels comfortable and rich to the touch. The front cover even more so. The magazine comes out six times a year and maintains a primary theme but contains also several other articles written by established experts in their field.
I am was Art Director for Politiken Historie and page designer. The cover is graced by either amazing artwork or important, historical photographs.
The visual content of Politiken Historie varies greatly and one the most important aspects of designing the magazine is picking the right photographs and info graphic. Keeping the flow and feel fresh through the many pages, I'll adapt color schemes and use symbolism and gracious fine lines to enhance the experience.
When designing the magazine, I've based formats on the Fibonacci sequence and then adjusted it to simplify uneven numbers and accomodate the text lenght requirements. The blue colors are also set up as close to Fibonacci numbers as possible - again adjusted to a color that prints safely and well.
The front cover featuring engraver Martin Mörck's rendition of Donald Trump dressed in Greenland explorer Knud Rasmussens seal fur coat has won two awards:
When designing the magazine, I've based formats on the Fibonacci sequence and then adjusted it to simplify uneven numbers and accomodate the text lenght requirements. The blue colors are also set up as close to Fibonacci numbers as possible - again adjusted to a color that prints safely and well.
The front cover featuring engraver Martin Mörck's rendition of Donald Trump dressed in Greenland explorer Knud Rasmussens seal fur coat has won two awards:
SND awarded the cover an "Award of Excellence" and Danske Medier awarded it with an "Honorable Mention" along with these words (translated from Danish):
... Visually inspired by Donald Trump, engraver artist Martin Mørck presents the president in something like a furcoat wearing a slightly caricatured statesman expression as if gracing a money bill. The obvious choice, Trump, is used originally by putting him in a traditional greenland sealhunter garb. Absurd combination. Very well thought of and amazingly executed.
During the production of each magazine, I'll use primarily CCI Europe's Cue Print, but rely heavily on photoshop for photos, illustrator to either create maps or brush up on supplied infographic - or even make illustrations (such as the cover for issue 6, featuring the Dragon's Head). Lastly I'll use InDesign to set up the cover that is printed seperately on different paper.
Our team consists three people, adding a fourth member for some days to edit the texts that are supplied by both editor-in-chef, Anders Olling, editor Hans Erik Havsteen or several experts in their respective field that have been hired to supply the magazine with an article.
Credits:
"Danske Nazister" cover artwork by: Philip Ytournel
"Danmark i Kina" cover artwork by: Marcus Bøgh Grønbech
"Genforeningen" cover artwork by: Roald Als
"Rig og Fattig" cover artwork by: Frants Henningsen
"Grønland" cover artwork by Martin Mörck
"Grønland" cover artwork by Martin Mörck
Excerpts from the magazine below:
Rome: The main visual theme is a vector based pillar that supports coin-shape (or voting ballots if you like) with select key personas in ancient Roman history. It begins with a map of Rome and ends in a broken pillar that tumbles down. Inside the coin is an actual coin depicting the emperor romolus Augustus that abdicates in year 476.
The article was featured in issue no. 2.
The Selfie: The history of the so-called selfie goes back hundreds of years - even if Paris Hilton claims to have invented it with Britney Spears in 2006.
While the paintings by Caravaggio and C.W. Eckersberg are not strickly speaking selfies, they do concern themselves with the mirror image.
The earliest know selfie is taken by an american in 1839. Robert Cornelius (on the right to Caravaggios "Narcissus")
While the paintings by Caravaggio and C.W. Eckersberg are not strickly speaking selfies, they do concern themselves with the mirror image.
The earliest know selfie is taken by an american in 1839. Robert Cornelius (on the right to Caravaggios "Narcissus")
The article was featured in Politiken Historie issue no. 1.
Contra factual: Every issue of Politiken History has one of these. It allows us to ponder what might've happened if certain events had turned out differently. This time around author and historian, Dan. H. Andersen, puts up a scenario what might have come to pass if Swedish monarch Carl XII did not die rather conveniently (for Denmark, that is!).
Contra factual features the Fibonacci shape repeated and cropped to make the background pattern and a different fontface to make it stand out from the other articles in the magazine. The first spread features Carl XII's death mask, and the last one the actual body of the monarch with a bullet wound to his skull.
It hasn't been possible for experts to divine if the gunshot came from a Swedish or a Danish-Norwegian riffle.
The article was featured in Politiken Historie issue no. 3.
