Reflection

Here I have gathered some magazine covers which appealed to me. These are not music magazine covers they are predominantly fashion magazines as I was just looking at the front cover designs. I was attracted to these magazine covers because of their bright colour palettes. I chose the ‘Allure’ and ‘Fabulous’ magazine covers because in liked the cover stars makeup. I also looked into the cover lines on these magazine covers as they are bold important statements to attract an audience to the magazine and want them to read more. It is important that these cover lines are short and catchy as the target audience does not want to read a lot on the front cover. Another element which I noticed from these magazines is that the cover star is looking into the camera in the photo, this makes the model interact with the audience through the magazine.

In one of these magazine covers which I collected, the cover star image and masthead is all upside down. This makes the magazine cover very unique and stand out from its competitors. It was an interesting choice for the designer to put the masthead upside down as although it follows the cover star image it potentially makes the branding difficult to recognise and identify. Although clearly the design still works as the magazine caught my eye due to the neon hair colour of the model swell as the bright costume which matches the hair. Therefore this is a very cleverly designed front cover as it is unique but still captures attention of the audience due to small details. This has inspired into thinking about potentially doing something funky like this on my own magazine cover.

Another thing I noticed on some of the other covers was the use of drawing over the cover star. For example the top middle and bottom right have both been ‘doodles’ on with bright colours in order to add a feature to the cover star which could have potentially been a boring image. This use of colour and doodling is what attracted to me to these front covers so clearly the design is working to draw the audience in.

This task also allowed me to see the layouts of successful magazines and I immediately noticed the big bold mastheads which was a prominent focus of the cover. I also recognised colour to be an important element as the designers linked colours within the cover star to back ground images, for example the ‘Bazaar’ magazine is purely a baby point colour scheme and the cover stars lipstick has been chosen to match this.