The Pessimist Magazine
Book/Editorial
Book/Editorial
Book/Editorial
Book/Editorial
Book/Editorial
Book/Editorial
Book/Editorial
Book/Editorial
Book/Editorial
Typography, Print/Brand Communications
Designer(s)
Julia Paliy
Duration
13 Weeks
Recognitions
"6 Injustices Suffered by People who Hate Popular Things"
"The Pessimist" is an magazine project completed in the third year of this student's YSDN degree in a course on editorial design at Sheridan College, under the instruction of Adam Rallo. The magaine contains three features as well as various advertisment content, a letter to the editor, and two alternate covers. This image displays the first feature, which is an article, pessimistic in tone, that lists the 6 downfalls of being one of those special snowflakes that hates everything popular, which is primarily the audience for the magazine. Using dark graphics and imagery, straight-edge typographical choices, and with the tone resembling tech, this project starts off in a negative tone, matching the intended mood and audience.
"Avocados Suck: Well, They Do"
Moving onto the next feature in this magazine issue, this is an article that, while on surface level portraying a negative tone, is joined by comedic and cheeky illustrations that leave the reader in awe of their "cuteness". The imagery and graphic content of this article are meant to elicit a satire tone and the whole point is to portray the theme of irony and comedy. This magaine as a whole, is meant to reel the audience in with pessmist, anger, and hate, and slowly transforms the user into a cheery social media sheep who likes to laugh and enjoys the occasional cute illustration. Ignoring the satirical and funny mood of the illustrations, they do tend to me quite pessimist and angry in tone, such as the cannibalistic avocados eating avocado smoothies, guacamole, and more.
"Why Snapchat is Overrated: And for the Wrong Reasons"
The last feature article in this issue of The Pessimist is one on the topic of the image based social media platform, Snapchat. Using a jarring bright yellow, this spread interprets the application in the cheeriest tone, but also the most shocking and jarring, which accurately represents what the application is about and why it is overrated. The concept of the tech industry is brought back into here with the clip-art and sticker resembling graphics and imagery (which is indicative of one of the application's features where you can sticker an image to a photo), and using a straight-edge typeface portrayed in jarring and bright colours on the CMYK scale. Overall, the magazine The Pessimist brings together anger, hate, and cheeriness and irony in a satirical manner.
