Freshly Pressed Revised Cover

For the school magazine Freshly Pressed a group of six designers were asked to design the magazine. Out of the 6 designers they went with Eric Setzo’s magazine cover. However when his work was accepted he dropped the program and was unable to provide original (Ai) files. So my editorial teacher (Janet Rouss) personally asked me to redesign the magazine cover. However I felt like making my cover identical to Eric’s made me seem like a plagiarist and I felt that if I were to do the cover I need to interpret the visuals in my own way.