This magazine front cover is from an American magazine called Billboard, it covers all music genres and concentrates on the top 100 songs of that week no matter what genre. It is considered a reliable source for music and unbiased.
I think this cover works well, the first thing you notice about the magazine is the masthead, your eyes are drawn towards the colourful masthead as it is on a black and white background this stands out well. You easily identify the magazine from the masthead as it is in the same recognisable font and colour every week also it is bright and colourful unlike most magazine mastheads. In addition, the artists head covers some of the masthead blocking some of the letters, even though you cannot fully read the title you still identify the magazine from the coloured in letters at the end of the masthead.
Once you have identified the magazine your eyes move towards the artist featured in the left hand side of the page, from the image you can identify that the artist is from the R’n’B music genre, you can identify this from the items of clothing he is wearing. The image is set over a lake, the artist is sat on the side smoking a cigar and looking out across the lake, with scenery in the background. This image works well as the colour contrast well with each other, the white of the water and the dark clothing. The black and white background is used to try create an old school theme. The text in the sell lines to the left stand out well against the black of his clothing, white on black, this makes it easy to read and more likely to attract the reader. Also the sell lines on the right stand out well against the black and white background, red on white.
I think this cover works well, the first thing you notice about the magazine is the masthead, your eyes are drawn towards the colourful masthead as it is on a black and white background this stands out well. You easily identify the magazine from the masthead as it is in the same recognisable font and colour every week also it is bright and colourful unlike most magazine mastheads. In addition, the artists head covers some of the masthead blocking some of the letters, even though you cannot fully read the title you still identify the magazine from the coloured in letters at the end of the masthead.
Once you have identified the magazine your eyes move towards the artist featured in the left hand side of the page, from the image you can identify that the artist is from the R’n’B music genre, you can identify this from the items of clothing he is wearing. The image is set over a lake, the artist is sat on the side smoking a cigar and looking out across the lake, with scenery in the background. This image works well as the colour contrast well with each other, the white of the water and the dark clothing. The black and white background is used to try create an old school theme. The text in the sell lines to the left stand out well against the black of his clothing, white on black, this makes it easy to read and more likely to attract the reader. Also the sell lines on the right stand out well against the black and white background, red on white.
The text at the top of the screen reads ‘INDIE ROCK BAND’ this tells the reader that the magazine covers many different music genres not just the one suggest by the picture centred. Also one of the sell lines talks about Lady Gaga, this backs up the point that the magazine contains news on many different music genres.
This front cover has inspired me to design one similar to this, the background works very effectively with the colour scheme and the text stands out well so it is easy to read. The background picture creates an old school feel about it and I would like to try and recreate this. My favourite bit about this cover is that because of the black and white background the colourful masthead stands out well, i would like to create my masthead to be similar, colourful and easily recognisable.
This front cover has inspired me to design one similar to this, the background works very effectively with the colour scheme and the text stands out well so it is easy to read. The background picture creates an old school feel about it and I would like to try and recreate this. My favourite bit about this cover is that because of the black and white background the colourful masthead stands out well, i would like to create my masthead to be similar, colourful and easily recognisable.
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