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Stephanie Magazine Contest – Our Verdict!

November 12, 2012
By Stephanie Daily
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Out of the 10 contestants, only six sent in their cover magazine designs of the picture sent to them.

The six are (in order of placements – top left to bottom right):

  1. Iroro Gbenedio
  2. Tunji Ceasar Multimedia
  3. Ezekiel/Damielara
  4. StephAn
  5. Unyoaba etu
  6. Leslie Williams

Here’s the verdict from Stephanie Daily…

1. Iroro Gbenedio:

Iroro’s work is quite interesting. She plays with a lot of edgy colour tones; and it seemed he/she had a lot fun designing this cover. However, the fonts are very unflattering and they are placed in awkward positions that make it less than appealing.

2. Tunji Ceasar Multimedia:

Tunji colours are beautiful. We love the fonts and his arrangement of the blurbs is decent. He was able to achieve a proper lifestyle format which earns him very good marks from us. We like the different sizes of fonts which he plays around with.

3. Ezekiel/Damielara:

The black and white shade with colour lipsticks is quite intriguing; it shows a playful side which works for lifestyle magazine. But the fonts chosen and style of arrangement doesn’t exert same playfulness. The title is boxed with an outline that does very little to the overall work.

4. StephAn

We like this – a lot! StephAn shows impressive ingenuity with this work. Although it seems the blurbs are sinking and getting lost inside the fabric, but it is still a unique work and commendable. The placement of fire red on black and white picture gives such a radiant glow to the overall art.

5. Unyoaba Etu:

We can see that Etu likes boxing his blurbs which isn’t such a bad idea but it gives the work a very curt look. We love his own shade of the picture and the title comes in a good design. However, the boxes and spaces in-between would take a lot of the attention form the picture that it needs.

6. Leslie Williams:

Leslie’s work is pleasantly shocking. We weren’t expecting an artiste that would re-create the picture but she/he did that and gave it her/his own touch. For a comic book or some other specified work, this would be brilliant, but for a lifestyle magazine which relies on fashion, trends, beauty etc, it will be a hard-sell in that genre. He/she also needs to check her spellings.

That’s the verdict from my team. Now is time for you to pick your Top 3 winners! Your pick carries 30% of our final verdict so please pick wisely. The comment section is opened till Wednesday (November 14) by 12pm.

Pick your Top 3 designs now!

 

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  2. HONESTLY STEPH, I MUST COMMENT THIS 6 PEOPLE THAT CONTESTED, THEY ALL DID A WONDERFUL JOB HERE, IT IS NOT EASY TO CREATE SUCH, KUDOS TO THEM ALL, MY VOTE GOES TO NO 4, BY NAME STEPHAN, HE/SHE DID A MARVELLOUS DESIGN THERE, THE FONTS AND COLOURS THERE ARE ALL OK.

    THANKS

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  4. Only 3 contestants here adhered to the instruction that the name of the magazine should be “STEPHANIE!” and instruction is key. Judging from that, i will choose Iroro Gbenedio as my no1, StephAn as my no2 and Unyoaba Etu as my no3.

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  5. Stephanie you have already done the arrangement for me. first is Iroro Gbenedio followed by Tunji Ceasar Multimedia then Ezekiel/Damielara. Thank You

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  6. wow,my winner is iroro gbenedio,,,ild sooo go for this design…am highly impressed with this work or yours..well my
    Top1 is iroro gbenedio
    Top2 is Uyoaba etu
    Top3 is StephAn………

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  13. I vote stephAn’s work. Its real creative and he didn’t compress StephAnie like others did in a bid to but intentional add their blurbs underneath or what not.
    Regards.

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  14. out of all of them i loved Iroro Gbenedio the design is on point. the colur was just right for it. Iroro ure my top 1 designer

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  16. i’ll have to agree with Patrick that instruction is key. My best will be Iroro Gbenedio, it is an attention grabber and thats what a magazine should be.

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  19. I like all of dem, but looking at it frm a proffessional view, I think I will pick stephans, it looks very matured and I won’t be surprised if the person has had years of experience in this industry

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  23. Been watching his work for a very long time and I must say am his No.1 fan, I love his work and creativity, I will vote for him always, keep up the good work

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  24. the first work has it for me, Iroro Gbenedio. my second choice is Unyoaba Etu and i’ll go for Tunji Caesar as my third.

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  25. Green is most appealing, it can call your attention from a distance….Iroro Gbenedio has my first vote, Unyoaba Etu has my second vote and Tunji Caesar is third for me

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  26. Well…I saw the page and my eyes instantly settled on stephan’s work. Subtle yet flashy. Fonts and blurbs all well placed. Easy on the eye. Simple yet elegant. STEPHAN gets my vote and tunji is a not 2 distant second.

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  32. I will go with Unyoaba etu (No.5) due to the perfect blend with the used of the hue features on the picture design.

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  36. These guys did a great job, kodos to all of them. my 1st choice is StephAn, 2nd Tunji Ceasar & 3rd Unyoaba Etu. The epitome of a gud magazine is embeded in these.

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  38. I liked Iroro work. It wasn’t perfect but i think she has potential. It looks creative and like she had fun doing it. If given a chance she could really excel.

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  42. magazine covers should have a colour of the dress as a colour of the font too. Iroro Gbenedio and Ezekiel/Damielara are first two respectively. then Caesar comes third

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  46. i think iroro’s work is really good….. i mean its the first thing that catches the first one that caught my eye…
    she really did well with the colours, and it looks like a magazine that’ll stand out from a rack of other magazines in a store…
    her work is really commendable
    my second vote will go to tunji and my 3rd will go to uyuoba

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  47. It was a tough choice, but i go with Iroro’s work.It really showed us what a lifestyle magazine is meant to look like then followed by Tunji’s work

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  48. All the designs are good and they have all done a great job but the one I like best is that of stephan. The header font is very creative and the page design is fun and unique. Its something I would like to see published.

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  49. I must commend on ur effort Steph to create the puzzle. I read most of ur writes up here but this one is really interesting. The six contestants did an amazing work. But i’ve got to cast my vote to d ones i think that are more Creative, an Artist and more captiviting cover pages.My first vote goes to No.6,Second vote goes to No.3 and last vote goes to No. 4.

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  57. StephAn’s work is what you’ll look at first, really. Leslie’s, you’ll look at too because it’s different and unique. But if there was no 6th, it’ll be StephAn’s all the way.
    So my verdict:
    1st – StephAn
    2nd – Leslie
    3rd – Iroro

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  61. for me is difficult to choose from this six contestants bcos, they all did well, in one sentence i will say they job is whao but all the same i will still pick, i will go fo (no4) StepnAn, he/she did a unique design. if am permited to pick another one i will pick (no6) that’s alot of creativity. congrat guys. thumbs up for u all

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  65. My vote goes to stephAn…..his work shows a high level of class and sophistication…..every thing is in perfect sync with nothing overshadowing the other….he did well

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  66. Wow! All six contestants did beautifully well and they all tried to bring out their individual taste and creativity.. But the one that has the best work for me is (no4) StephAn.. His/hers stands out from the others.

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  67. Kudos to u aunty step for a wonderful job of picking out this 6 contestants for ur mag cover, they all hv done a wonderful and marvelous job, but that not withstanding for me Tunji Ceasar Multimedia did a very perfect, curt & beautiful work. His/Her ability to use lovely colours and proper lifestyle format made the mag to look cute and attractive to the eyes. I vote for him/her. Thank U

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  101. For me iroro’s work is my favorite …….very stylish and eye catching…..good job 🙂 I vote iroro gbenedio as no1

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  102. I love iroro’s design ! I love the black font she used at the bottom of the cover. Her design is also not the regular’s we already have around! That’s creativity.
    I vote her as no1.

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  105. Stephan killed it for me.. I love the background, the choice of red for the lettering, beautiful, fonts and arrangement of main issues on point. Iroro is next and Eku comes third.

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  108. Stephan’s is soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo the best

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  112. Stephan all the way,I vote stephan with his kind of design I tink he’ll get the job done properly wit class.

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  117. My vote definitely goes to Tunji Ceasar Multimedia and StephAn. Tunji’s design looks like the kind of magazine cover I would see anywhere the world over, very professional, same as StephAn’s. And I love the title font with the letter A that StephAn did but agree that some of the blurbs almost seemed to be sinking into the fabric, but still believe that it’s better than the other 4.

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  121. hmmmm….. i think i will go for unyoabas work he/she did an awesome job……am loving every bit of the work cus its quite mature nd class, for second place i think stephan and the third should be leslie

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  124. I would go for StephAn. I love the creativity behind the name and the red font color. My second option would be put the name as it is written by StephAn on Leslie Williams magazine but on a critical thought, I figured that magazines are all about color, glamour, beauty, fashion. Comic will not bring these out.

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  130. for me,StephAn has got d best cover.
    my no. 2 would go to Unyoaba etu and no. 3 is Tunji Ceasat multimedia. they all did a nice job

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  134. Honestly…i’m appalled by some of the choices people have made in this contest. Mostly because viewers are judging by how pretty it looks on screen and not on print.

    The clear winner here is number 5: Unyoaba Etu. Her design is clean, the elements are distinct, consistent and legible and she makes good use of space and beautiful typography.

    The other designs look text intensive (especially number 3), lack coherence ( especially No1), and wouldn’t look good & Legible on print (especially No2)

    Honorary mention goes to No.6: Leslie Williams.
    It’s a remarkable deviation from the norm and it looks quite nice visually. I’m love with the Title header typography (regardless of his spelling flaws)…BUT for the Glam & Life-style genre, it fails. Kiddos to him tho.

    Cheers

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  142. It is Unyoaba Etu for me…..
    i think his/her work would beat world class standard
    🙂 2nd: Steph An and 3rd: Iroro

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