Hey peeps, I designed this cover for my schools yearbook, and i could use a few suggestions for improvements..
What do you think?
http://i.imgur.com/zdaID.png
What do you think?
http://i.imgur.com/zdaID.png
I have a degree in graphic design. There is no 'right' way for a layout. There are guidelines to go by. Usually if it looks 'right' it's good.
Don't know if the design under the text title is important, but it seems redundant, almost a space filler. Try moving the design elements like so:
The most important part of any layout is the subject or title of the piece. As it stands in the current layout, the title is pushed to the corner to 1/4 of the whole design. With a lot of good graphics taking up all the spaces, but they are essentially only background graphics. They are meant to accentuate and compliment the title not to overshadow the title. In this case, it's taking spaces from the title. Just give the title more spacing that it deserved and at the same time you still have plenty of spaces for the creative graphics.
Keeping the above in mind, you can still move things around in a variety of ways and still have a good layout that will look 'right'