Making the magazine layout

Finished layout:

I want to create feeling of two sides clashing. A feeling of England and Holland locking horns. This is the reason I opted for a blue (England) half and an orange (Holland) with the content tilting towards each other to furhter reinforce that.

Although it doesn't look that grid-like, i have followed a grid and there's use of columns and gutters throughout, i especially used them before rotating the content.

All content was rotated 20 degrees or -20 degrees, so everything is perfectly parrallel to each other which I quite like, althugh it's not at the usual horizontal or vertical angles.

I used Century Gothic Bold for the copy and main titles, mainly because I think it reads well and suits the style I went for and also suitable it was designed in the 90s. The topic of Euro 96 is obviously during the 90s.

Overall I'm fairly happy with this, I want to keep creating more layouts though. One thing I'm not happy with is I haven't been as precise as I wanted to be. My layouts I worked from haven't been measured for point size etc. I want to do this again but much more mathematically.