Takeout Magazine
Bridging arts and culture.
Print Layout and Production
Takeout is an arts and culture magazine to represent Asian Pacific Islander Americans (APIA) creatives in modern culture. Each bi-annual issue features articles focusing on the perspectives, hardships, and personalities of the creatives and the impact of their work.
Importance of representation in Hollywood films, the understanding of “ethnic” food trends, and how AAPIs contribute to white supremacy are just some of the topics that will be explored in this current issue. The stories and interviews in Takeout are a great resource and source of inspiration for creatives and people interested in a more comprehensive look of an APIA’s experience.
Problem
Asian Pacific Islander Americans are an underrepresented community that holds a unique, creative community that may not have access to an platform to voice their work.
Goal
Create a magazine platform to voice Asian Pacific Islander American creatives.
Duration
10 weeks
Roles
Branding
Layout
Typography
Production
Skills
InDesign
Photoshop
Solution
As APIAs are stereotyped to be quiet, submissive and more logical, giving them a modern platform will fight this stigma. Cultured, celebratory, and inclusive, ‘Takeout’ will take on a loud, bold color scheme along with experimental asymmetric grids to convey a supposed polarized take on who we are. As the focus is on culture and inclusivity, fonts are simple and legible so it does not take away from the lifestyle photography and layouts.
Front of Book
Each issue of Takeout starts with editorials entries written by readers on their take of current events and societal stereotypes as well as norms.
Middle of Book
Featuring well known entertainment artists to rising young creatives doing local work, Takeout interviews and takes a deeper look into the upbringing of everyone’s unique background.
Back of Book
Takeout ends with insiders of popular culture and trend.