Studio specimen · Beauty magazine

Sitara

Issue 01, The bridal beauty issue

Sitara is a sample issue from our studio: a beauty and jewellery glossy for the wedding months, with its own type and colour so it looks nothing like our couture sample.

A beauty magazine lives on close-ups that stay sharp and on instructions a reader can follow, so the steps are in plain words with no brand names, and the jewellery pages explain the craft rather than sell it.

Format: Beauty magazine
Extent: 12 pages

The whole issue · 12 pages

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Drag a page corner, tap either side, or use the arrow keys. Switch on the designer’s notes to see why each page is built the way it is.

Sitara cover: a bride in a kundan maang tikka and nath, close up against a dark patterned ground, lead line Ivory and kohl

Page by page

1. Cover
2. Contents and the editor's letter
3. Ivory and kohl
4. The shoot
5. How the look was built
6. The evening eye, in six steps
7. Polki, kundan and temple gold
8. Fifty years at the setting bench
9. Dry-air skin
10. Next issue: the wedding issue
11. A DigiMagz studio page
12. Back cover: a DigiMagz advertisement

Decisions

One model, three pages
The beauty story follows one model from the opener to the close-up to the notes on how the look was built, all from one shoot.
A headline set by hand
Ivory and kohl is set one word to a line, a choice a designer makes for one page, not a setting a template repeats.
A change of pace
The stone-setter's profile sits on a near-black page with a tilted print, so the issue slows down before the last stories.
A studio page at the back
The issue closes on our studio page: who made it, and how to reach us on WhatsApp or by email.

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Turn the pages.

Page by page

One model, three pages

A headline set by hand

A change of pace

A studio page at the back

Tell us what you want to publish.