A good successful magazine cover consists of many design features. The main ones being: a masthead, cover lines, main cover line, main cover star, barcode, price, plug, pug insets and captions. These are all important features of a magazine cover for their own reasons. For example a masthead is important because it shows the brand of the magazine in big bold fonts, making it easy to identify to potential audience. We looked at a magazine cover and picked out all of design feature which that specific cover consisted of.

This will help me design my own magazine cover because I now know that it is important to understand the basic conventions and rules for a magazine cover.