Mock-up/Ideas

I began my mock-up by making a quick sketch of a woman's face from one of the beauty pages in Elle magazine (Fig. 1, seen below). 

Fig. 1

I outlined the sketch in permanent marker so I could trace the image for my different ideas (seen below). 

Ideas

My first idea would be a data visualization of the most common words used in two beauty articles from four women's magazines, in the October Issue. I would use wordle.net to generate the most frequent words used for each magazine (I may limit the number of words to 20 or 25). I would then assign each magazine to a different colour. In order to reflect the information visually, the most frequent words used for each magazine will be represented in the shape of a typographic portrait. Four different colours or shades will be used to signify the four women's magazines. The user will be able to click on/off of the magazine titles to the left of the typographic face to refine exactly what words the different magazines used in their beauty articles. I thought a young woman's face would be the best way to reflect the information visually, because a young woman is the target demographic for each of these magazines and beauty articles are centered around the woman's face.

My second idea is very similar to the previous one, but instead I would focus on the hair articles in each women's magazine. Thus, the data visualization would work exactly the same, but the typography will only be placed in the hair and the face would be an illustration or a water colour painting.

My third idea is similar to the first one, by which the data visualization will focus on the beauty articles across the four women's magazines. However, this idea will be upon a black background and as the user clicks on a title of a magazine the visualization will highlight a section of the woman's face and the word cloud adjacent to it.





Bibliography

Fig. 1. Lloyd- Evans, J. (2013) Beauty Elle. [Photograph] (London, Elle Magazine).