This is an analysis of a magazine cover. This information is useful because it will help me organise my magazine cover when I design it and it will teach me the technical conventions and how I can follow them. It’s helpful to have the knowledge of how a professional designer would create a magazine cover as I will be able to recognise the expectations and things that help it be successful.

The meanings of the key terms are:

• The Masthead is the name of the magazine.
• The plug is something that sells the magazine as it tells the consumer something they would gain from buying it.
• The Main Cover Line is the title of that issue.
• The Main Cover Star is a picture of what the magazine is about.
• The Cover Lines are small bits of text that promote other parts of the magazine other than the main part.
• The Pug is meant to catch the reader’s eye and seem interesting.