Cloning a Magazine to Perfection

For this assignment, we had to find a good, well designed magazine layout and duplicate it so that the audience will be fooled.

Here is the original layout:

Here is my duplicate copy:

As you can see both are extremely similar, except for the images. I had to use different images since I couldn't find the same one. The only difference is the color of the spread. Mine is a lighter gray but overall I think it came out really good.