Magazine Inspiration - Front Covers

Huck

I like this front cover, because the magazine has allot of white space and is very simplistic. This makes the magazine easy to read and to understand, comforting the traget audience. The Mathshead is in lower case, so its allot more relaxing and informal whilst the large image has a sepia tone, which relates to the target audeince, of retro californian skateboarding.

RollingStone

This magazine is influencial to me because it sell's itself to a slightly different audience through the image. As Rolingstone is an iconic font and name, people do not need to say the whole mathshead to know what the magazine is about, therefore putting this artist of a slightly different music genre on, intrege's a new audience. I particular like the line of symmetery that runs through the centre of the peice, which makes the text stand out from the background.

WIRED

I like the use of colours on this front page because it makes the magazine stand out and with the rest of the colours being black, white and grey, it attract the audience, and makes the writing inside stand out, which in this case is the headline (main story) of the magazine. It also uses these bright colours (cyan, magenta, yellow and green) within the text (sub headings) which colour specific text to make it stand out, so these words highlight an important part in the magazine.

NME

I really like the contrast of colours on this magazine front cover, as the red stands out on both black and white layers behind them, and the white stands out on a black background, which in this case is the image of the two musicians, which is placed to the right. I also like this magazine because it uses the 'F' layout which has bold capital text sub-headings, to intrege the reader. It also uses a qoute, which stands out under the headline, which incopperates a joke, which the traget audience would understand, therefore related to the reader. I think this is a very clever technique which intrege's the target market to red on because they feel the magazine suites them.