Newletters and magazines

Lockdown magazine

Lockdown is a magazine by and for young people in Secure Training Centres (STCs). We designed this magazine with the Youth Justice Board and a group of young people from a STC in the south east. The two girls who had the idea for the magazine, organised lottery funding and were involved in the early design development and writing stages. The brief was to produce a clear, easy to read magazine with a ‘street’ feel that would appeal to boys and girls from 7 to 18! We produced several concepts with the favourite (shown above) being quickly chosen. We wrote some design guidelines so that subsequent issues could be designed and produced in-house with young people taking a lead.

This was a great project in that we were actually involved with the people the project was helping, something which is quite unusual in design.